I empathise with you, Brendy. Round these parts I'm known as Scissorhands. Will maybe give the stuff a try! I used to have a beautiful old Takamine, made a wonderful sound, but after numerous setup changes I just couldn't stop the bloody strings breaking, sometimes at the most inopportune moments. I sold it and bought a new Yamaha, doesn't sound anywhere near as good but the string wear seems to be a lot better.