How do YOU string your guitar?

JonathanAnon

Hi lads,

Just wondering what are you special tricks for stringing guitar and keeping the strings in tune.. I usually bend the strings around the tuner as this guy does

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGLMy6DbpBc

and then try to have as little string around the tuning pegs as possible, usually 1.5 winds... But then I went down to the local music store, and the chap there says that this is wrong, that I should have many loops of the string around the tuning peg... ? What do you people think?

zenno

well I do this the same as the vid here especially with the classical guitar but also with the acoustic as it gives a good hold on all the strings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkzV5xw2xXk

ps. I don't play the worship music :pac: this is just an example.

TroutMask

I use a technique that I learned from The Clash's guitar tech. I use hardly any wraps by placing the loose end under the wrapping string to create a self-locking string wrap that uses the tension of the string to lock the string to the tuner post. That's when I'm using traditional tuners. Most of my guitars have been converted to locking tuners - the 'drop-in' type that require no alterations to the host guitar. They, of course, lock the string in the tuner post in a vice-like grasp. I also use Nut Sauce on the nut, saddles, tremolo fulcrums and spring contact points. I don't go out of tune, and I play a Jaguar with a fully floating vibrato!

J_E

I sometimes tune my strings over the bridge of my guitar (tune o matic) like Joe Bonamassa. As well as making the action a little better for my playing, it looks kind of cool

You can see it here.

Demeyes

I usually aim for a few winds around the tuner but not too many. It can come in handy if you have some small problems like a string popping out of a locking bridge and I've always heard that having a few windings will give better tuning stability. I always keep downward pressure on the string when winding so it comes out with a nice neat set of windings and not some kind of layered mess, having overlapping strings will give you tuning problems and possible string breakages at the tuner.
I always stretch the strings a bit after I put them on and tune them up and I always make sure to wind it the right way around the string.

rcaz

For my Telecaster - pull the string through the tuner, press it into the saddle with one finger and pull it back 2 frets (2 on wound strings, 3 on plain), that's the amount of slack I go with. Wind it on so the winds go under the hole in the tuner.

Jazzmaster (with slotted tuners) - pull string tight up next to the tuner, cut it off 2 tuners past the tuner you're winding onto. Shove that in the hole in the centre of the tuner and wind it on.

Alanstrainor

Well one thing's for sure, i don't change my strings every 2 weeks! I'm lucky to change them once every 6 months!