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Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:18 am
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I've been reading a book on set up by Dan Ertilewine and he had no fewer that five different methods to wind strings on strats with safeTpost (split shaft).

What works best for you; traditional, wind it first from the bottom up, over under lock, etc.?


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I make sure that all excess is wound below the string hole and it goes from top to bottom so that the sting runs from the bottom of the tuner to the nut….. every little bit of (angle) tension over the nut helps


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Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:01 pm
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stephenr66 wrote:
I make sure that all excess is wound below the string hole and it goes from top to bottom so that the sting runs from the bottom of the tuner to the nut….. every little bit of (angle) tension over the nut helps


Thanks for your reply stephen66. Right - that's going to be the case in all situations. I'm looking for any better methods of string strats with the safeTpost (split barrel) machines.

EDIT: Specifically, how you lock them at the top?


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my bad....but good luck


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I put the string in the hole, bend it down and start wrapping from top to bottom. I've been doing it that way for the longest time. I have no need for any other way.


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Guitar_Hurricane wrote:
I put the string in the hole, bend it down and start wrapping from top to bottom. I've been doing it that way for the longest time. I have no need for any other way.


That's the answer I was looking for.

Now please help me here Guitar Hurricane. When I try to do this with the 1st string, it always slips out of the hole in the sateTpost, after I've made the bend and as I begin the winds... what am I missing here?


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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:12 pm
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As an aside, you don't want to know how I string my double-locking trem guitars - but I'll tell ya anyway. :D

Having long realized that my style and thinner strings lead to easy breakage, I no longer cut off the ball of the string for the double-locking trem. Instead, I put the ball-end at the tuning peg. This way, as the string breaks (esp. at the bridge clamp), I just feed out some more string from the peg and reclamp. Voila, nearly almost never-ending strings (until they absolutely need to be replaced).

Back to Fender world...


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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 4:18 pm
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Strataholic wrote:
Guitar_Hurricane wrote:
I put the string in the hole, bend it down and start wrapping from top to bottom. I've been doing it that way for the longest time. I have no need for any other way.


That's the answer I was looking for.

Now please help me here Guitar Hurricane. When I try to do this with the 1st string, it always slips out of the hole in the sateTpost, after I've made the bend and as I begin the winds... what am I missing here?


Bend it 90 degrees and keep pressure on the string when winding down.
Make at least 3 to 4 turns around the post with the plain strings.

Peter


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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 4:27 pm
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As an aside, you don't want to know how I string my double-locking trem guitars - but I'll tell ya anyway. :D

Having long realized that my style and thinner strings lead to easy breakage, I no longer cut off the ball of the string for the double-locking trem. Instead, I put the ball-end at the tuning peg. This way, as the string breaks (esp. at the bridge clamp), I just feed out some more string from the peg and reclamp. Voila, nearly almost never-ending strings (until they absolutely need to be replaced).

Back to Fender world...


That's cool. I envisioned little spools of various gauged strings attached to your head stock! LOL

Seriously good tip though!


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Strataholic wrote:
Guitar_Hurricane wrote:
I put the string in the hole, bend it down and start wrapping from top to bottom. I've been doing it that way for the longest time. I have no need for any other way.


That's the answer I was looking for.

Now please help me here Guitar Hurricane. When I try to do this with the 1st string, it always slips out of the hole in the sateTpost, after I've made the bend and as I begin the winds... what am I missing here?


As long as you keep tension on the string after it's bent down, it should stay put, but sometimes it still pops out of the hole. After awhile you'll be able to string that thing up with your eyes closed. Just a matter of getting used to it.

That string popping out happens every once in awhile, that littlest string is a bit springy and wants to jump around some. When I start with the first string, I always turn the slot so that it's crossways the headstock (slot pointing towards the tuning key of the same tuner), then I poke the string down into the hole all the way until it bottoms out. I then bend it down and go ahead and wrap it once around the peg and hold the string tight with my right hand somewhere above the fretboard and start tightening it up with my left hand.


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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:51 pm
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For all these years, I've been taking out a $10 bill and dropping the guitar off at a music store that strings. Comes back perfect every time. Recently, I just re-did the little e myself and so far it works ugly - with a loop at the end though. Didn't get the 90 degree bend right on the little e string and catch it good wrapping it down, but whatever I did worked and I can't keep screwing around with it because they do get brittle if you mess with them too much.


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