Hi,
This is probably different from everything else that's been posted. I'm looking for someone who knows alot about how electric guitars are built and the industry specifications for electric guitar strings. This is about a 14 y.o. boy who's eye was injured when an electric guitar strong broke the first time he used it and hit him in the eye. It was not a Fender guitar. Somebody who works at Fender making the guitars would be perfect.

That's ever so funny about the guitar googles Yes, this is a prelude to a lawsuit. The electric guitar was from Walmart. The price was less than $100.00. I know people are down on lawsuits, but frequently people's opinion changes when they are the one that's been hurt. This was not a minor injury. The guitar string cut into his eye. He had to have laser surgery to stop the bleeding inside the eye. From there a cateract developed and he had to have cateract surgery and a lens replacement. His vision has been permanently damaged. He has pain, blurriness, and headaches.

My thinking is that the string had to be defective in some way for it to break the first time the boy used it. So far, everybody says it's extremely unusual for a string to recoil up to the face. But maybe you guys have been using good quality guitars. Maybe this guitar was of inferior quality and made in China. Maybe the string itself was made of inferior quality or maybe it was wound up too tight or maybe both.

I'm not sure what position the boy was in when it happened. All I know is that he got the guitar as a gift, went into his room and shut the door, and may have been sitting on his bed strumming the guitar when the string broke. I think he said it was the last or 5th string. If he was strumming downward when the broke, it makes sense to me that the string would bounce in the opposite direction toward the boy's face and not outward away from the guitar. But I'm not sure and that's why I wanted to consult somebody who really knows the components of guitars and whose opinion could really stand up under any kind of cross examination.

Since the original poster asked for a response from a Fender employee, here's one: this post is very odd and I'm locking it. If you'd like further input on the topic please contact me directly at ForumAdmin at fender.com and let me know specifically what you're trying to achieve here.

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