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Post subject: Restringing my strat
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:42 pm
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Hey everyone. super newb question but i was wondering how you all restring your Strats. i just bought this baby but shes needs a new set of strings. I would like to restring em like they are right out of the factory, that way i dont have to snip anything. ill add some pics of the tuning pegs.
thanks for the help. i dont wanna give my tuning any slack tho, i have problems with my G falling out of tune abit.
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:32 am
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This website has some good info. Try and watch the 2 videos that deal with changing strings on a Strat.

http://justinguitar.com/html/general_html/Re-string.html

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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:54 am
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Great advice, go to the website, I "unfortunately" tried to string mine
for the first time with no idea. I had just changed the bridge humbucker
myslef, so I figured, re-string, cake. I busted strings, couldnt get it to
stay in tune, etc. AS Strat HH. I did find that it helped to keep a little
extra slack, wind them 1 turn while applying pressure to keep tight,
then put the muscle on the string while tightening to regular tension
before tuning. worked for me? each individual aquires there own way
to re-string.


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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:54 am
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it's really not hard at all. I usually do it one string at a time. I was taught how to string by the folks at martin guitar. You basically string through the body, stretch the string to the tuner. while holding the string at the tuner and keeping the pressure there, pull the tension on string right about 2 inches, let the string slip at the tuner. Now attach to the tuner by doing a loop under the tuner and then wind that puppy up till it's tense bt not tight. do this with all 6 strings then you tune them one by one, starting with the #1 string e.


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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:23 pm
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I do the same as vcartier.


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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:54 pm
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It depends on the machines really.

My Guild acoustic I wind as much string as I can on the peg so I can repair broken strings a coupla times and it looks neat for an acoustic show.

My Showmaster has these locking-pegs. I slide the string through secure it at the eyelet with the tip of my finger and a half-turn bites the string and wind it's almost already tuned. I used to let the string excess fly wildly until my bass player got worried he might lose an eye, so I coil the excess now like they do in packaging, so I can still repair broken strings a coupla times.

Both the above guitars have 0.009 extra light gauge strings for easy play on the acoustic and Heavy Metal pulls and whails on the Showmaster. But my SRV sig strat has 0.011 medium gauge strings for tonal quality reasons. And quite frankly I don't break those strings as often. The SRV strat has the vintage tuning pegs that you must snip off excess leaving only a couple inches of slack or less and poke the end down into the peg vertically and bend it into the slot and wind to tune.


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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:05 pm
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After restringing two guitars in two days, I gotta' appreciate the genius of Steinberger double-ball string system. Imagine a Fender with no tuners ....


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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:06 pm
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Does anyone stretch their strings after the first tuning?


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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:11 pm
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vcartier wrote:
Does anyone stretch their strings after the first tuning?


Oh, yea .... carefully. If you're nervous about it, and your tremolo is set up in spec, you can whammy the strings to get a similar result.


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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:12 pm
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Well, good job changing two guitars. I keep forgetting they are like kids and need to be changed often. I have to re-srting one in a couple of weeks. The new strings on the Am Deluxe need to be switched...anybody ever do a 12 string...I have Strat XII and that baby is tight...


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vcartier wrote:
(snipp,snip) The new strings on the Am Deluxe need to be switched...anybody ever do a 12 string...I have Strat XII and that baby is tight...


12, hmmm .... I wonder what a Stratocaster with a built-in tuner would look like? You need a better roadie, lol ....


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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:22 pm
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vcartier wrote:
Does anyone stretch their strings after the first tuning?


I stretch mine. And then re-tune. It has been recommended by many folks as a way to assist in keeping a guitar in-tune, and in finding bad strings before you actually go and play.

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Always stretch new strings. They stay in tune infinitely better if you do.


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