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Strings Cutting Into Fingers On One Guitar But Not Others

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Jak Angelescu

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    Just to save my sanity I'm speaking into my phone so if this has poor error or grammar or punctuation I'm sorry. My schecter demon 6 guitar has the same exact gauge and type of string on it that all of my other guitars have. I have been playing on my ESP for that the last 3 weeks and I went to go do work on my schecter and it feels like this strings are impossible to slide on. Bending on them hurts and everything feels tight and stiff. Whereas with my ESP and my other guitars I'm not having that problem. Sliding physically hurts and feels like it's cutting my fingers open. What could be going on?
     
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    I was kind of thinking along the lines of what Ids was getting at too with old strings potentially.

    But also, do you give all the mentioned guitars the same type of love when it comes to fret board care? As far as oil type, cleaning solution? This might be different if any of them have a maple neck of course.

    I have a rosewood fret board and always like using lemon oil to clean away all the nasty stuff and rehydrate with pure mineral oil or butcher's block oil.
    EDIT: When changing my strings!
     
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