I changed my guitar strings a couple weeks ago and instead of throwing the old strings away I saved them for future projects. Acoustic guitar strings are steel wires that can be used in various projects, the only problem is I can never find an old guitar string when I need one. So with this old set of guitar strings I made a little set that I can use in the future.
All I did to make this set of wire is cut ~6″ off the end of the guitar string that has the brass ring on it. I then took each wire and put them on a keyring in order of thickness. Actually, I didn’t have a keyring at the time so I just bent my own out of music wire. I would recommend using a thin keyring if you have one though.
I have had this set laying on my desk for the past week or two and it has come in handy multiple times. I used it once for cleaning out a small hole on an RC engine, the guitar strings work great for cleaning out the fuel jets on a carburetor, and a few other really random things. The thing about this set is it works great for the most random of things! Since it has 6 different thicknesses of wire, if you need a wire to poke through a small hole it is likely that one of the 6 wires will work.
I don’t know if ya’ll will find this helpful, but I like using it and it seems handy to me. Anyways, here are some photos….
