Stringing up an electric - Good how-to videos or print articles?

[Pieman]

I never quite got the knack and am committed to restringing everything over Christmas. Can you recommend a good video on youtube or from a string manufacturer? I don't have anything out of the ordinary, i.e, they are all string throughs, not slotted tops or those stick in the top jobs. I have the Stewt-Mac book. Thanks in advance. Merry Christmas.

[RobB]

I've found these to be very helpful. Takes the guesswork out of how much slack to have as you do all of the tuning pegs:

[Pieman]

Thanks very much. Very helpful with useful, practical tips tips, such as using the fret board to maeasure extra length. I never got the hang of the hand measurement approach.

Taylor Guitar has a pretty good restringing-your-acoustic video.

There are some junky videos out there that are also counter productive.

Got some strings for Christmas and will go to work this weekend.

PS I think it was Joe Satriani (or was it Va/) who, when teaching, would make restringing the student's first lesson.

[murkat]

Come on over, we will have a re string party

[Caddie]

I've found these to be very helpful. Takes the guesswork out of how much slack to have as you do all of the tuning pegs:

That is mucho helpful! Thanks for posting, you are one righteous dude.

One suggestion for the producer of the vid. How about a "helmet cam" view. Not instead of the view you provided because they were great. Now I want to see what the tech is seeing, may be like picture-in-picture or split screen. I wanna be looking thru his eyes at the work he's doing as he's doing it.

just my 2cents

caddie

[lincsman]

The Pencil job in the nut is so important , a lot of people I know don't do it.

[sixesandsevens]

Not that you were looking for another book, but I really like the Guitar Player Repair Guide by Dan Erlewine (your StewMac book may be some of the same content). It's got answers to a lot of solutions to problems in it, some of which (thankfully) I haven't had to learn about yet.

One of the nice things about stringing a guitar is that very little can go catastrophically wrong. Note: keep the string ends away from your eyes! Even if you wind the strings the wrong way or if the windings travel up the post instead of down, it will still basically work and there's almost no chance of damage to the instrument from the process.

[oldskoolrulz]

Come on over, we will have a re string party

Mr. Murkat has it down to a perfect science, Jay you should do a YouTube video demonstrating your technique...

[specialk]

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