How to save Bass Strings and your Bucks at the same time!

Hi, This is Tatonka, also known as The Ol'Bassmon, "Fourstrings-Rick", I have been playing Bass since 1964 after playing 6-Stringers for ten years prior, and stayed with Bass until I am now 60+ and I refuse to be involved in restringing these Basses for $30.00 USD's and up.

 So, I know that we Bassists all share the same problem, and now,  I am building my own "Ultra-Bass", which will be as top of the line as I can make it and using my 42years of pro tricks and tips that I have come to learn as I grew as a Bassist.

   I had bougt a book, for Pro. Bassists and read a section where it had a chapter saying I don't have to keep buying new strings all of the time, and I wrote this guide before, but never knew what became of it, maybe it was not believed, but, I shall give it one last shot to help us Bassists save on strings (or "cables"), as this came from a book made by pro Bassists and it was put together for those who wish to know our tricks, and simply, this was it:
  Our strings do NOT lose resonance as fast as we think they do, it is a matter or the Windings getting loaded with our skin oils and the "gunk" that fall from our bodies as a fact of nature, and because of this physical fact, our strings become "LOADED"..with filings of old dead skin, hand oils, string lubes to help us play faster, and with rapidity...in other words they need to be cleaned before thrown away, so what do we have to  do to be wiser with our hard money??

 Instead of tossing out a good set of $30.00 + strings...BOIL THEM in steaming boiling water and break all of that gunk and dead body / hand shavings out of them.!!!

 This is their problem and this can be done a few times before we decide that they are just too old and we have to toss them!

 So, this,once more,  is the procedure: In a pot of boiling **distilled** water, (we want all minerals, and crap out of these windings~!~! Is that not our purpose here, we want cleaned strings, so, this is the "Pro's." way of saving his retirement money!

 As I said, In a pot of boiling water add : 4 used strings that you have made filthy and grungey with sprays, dead skins, and cells, molecules of all of the crap we put into them as we try to maintain them with "Sprays" " meant to clean and lube them", WAKE UP!!! DAMMIT and  LISTEN~!~!~!

   In the pot, of distilled water, put in your removed strings, which are still new, and have started to age from our stupidity and ignorance of physics and chemistry, and keep them boiling for a good ten minutes, and you will probably be able to see a flotsam of sludge beginning to form on the top of the water, I know one thing...I did.~!~!~!

 I removed them and lied them (straightly) on a nice white towel,  I laid them out straight on the towel on my counter and let dry, and you may help by laying another white towel on them and make sure that they are straight as can be made, and pat them then walk away to let the sludge (which is 99% gone now),get soaked up,  and let them dry.

 In a few moments you can feel the strings, they even shine again...why not? They have been as renewed as much as is practicable, and as is the right way of doing things and taking your $30.00 + and go lay-away another extension speaker, or upgrade your wires to Gold Monster wires, as I have done.

 But, this tip I learned from a book from "PROFESSIONAL Bassists" works! I have done it on my 44 year old Bass which is my "BABE", as she has served me well for 44 years...a Teisco Kent of 1965, as I bought a pair of twin Kents when I turned Bassist and had a spare (just in case), but never used the second one because "My Girl" was always right there waiting to play, us and our Ampeg B15N which I still have  Serial # 000089. A 1965 also!

 Now, you can say all that you want, but, my Kent, who is retired and on my "WALL OF HONOR" with my B-15-N and the ext.15" speaker right next to it. I have 7 other Basses and I could NOT afford to restring one when it was just getting filthy, so I listened to the PROFESSIONALS because I was one, but, couldn't believe it until I dismantled and overhauled the Kent and boiled the strings, Tommy "TV" Jones  rewired my pickup, and I installed it, and it is N~E~W sounding...I never considered what time and handling my bass and playing those strings like a madman would cake upon those strings~!~!~!

 I bought the book, boiled the strings, put them back on, and bah-dah-BING, bah-dah-Boom, it was done and, no, it was not returned to 42  years back, but, what a diff!

 OKAY! I have written this guide twice as a professional Bassist along with other tips, and I learn from pros, not beginners or intermediates...I am pro, and this is a pro tip I learned some 5 years ago...do it if you wish and only if what I said makes any logical sense, or don't... it's NOT my choice and NOT my cash!

 I know one thing, I know what I have learned from all of the Bassists and guitarists that I could talk to, and if it was right or sounded a clear as a bell...I figured why not, what could I lose?? An old set of strings that I was throwing away???

 Or, should I take my wife out and let the $30.00-$50.00 USD's stay in my pocket!

  I leave it all up to you, is science and physics correct, or are you above it all and do NOT need to save your money??

  ( SO, I do NOT listen to shoppe owners who are just moving parts and strings and I found that after I changed my strings one weekend, I was the loser as I had to get rid of the "strings" the shoppe owner said were what "they"(from the dept. of they's) were using"...the strings were bronze round wounds, and I thought they sucked and I was right, so I got what I wanted for MY sound, a nice set of Flatties, and we lived happily ever...blah-blah-blah!

  Hey! Be PRO or GO~!~!~!

Really, people, from your local eBay-Pro Bassist: The "Ol'Bassmon", RIT-d-GIT!