The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #173947 Message #4219446
Posted By: Robert B. Waltz
19-Mar-25 - 01:39 PM
Thread Name: String-killing body chemistry
Subject: RE: String-killing body chemistry
Mrrzy wrote: I tarnish silver, and my skin turns green if I wear copper...
That generally means that your skin is producing more sulfur than most. (If you eat a lot of onions or other things with certain odorants, most of which are sulfur-based, that might be why. It might not, too. :-)
The usual solution to that is to use titanium-based metals rather than copper or silver (that's the usual metal used in jewelry for this sort of things).
There are titanium guitar strings. I have no idea what they sound like. But it might be worth a try.