DIY: How to String a Gibson-Style Electric Guitar
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- Опубликовано: 20 июл 2024
- Got a guitar with a Tune-o-matic-style bridge and three strings on each side of the headstock? Here’s a fast, easy video demo of how to get it ready for stable-tuned action.
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I'm a B3 guy/piano but I have owned and played guitars for 60 years...always dreading changing strings on my SG or Les Paul..this video was 100 percent useful to me...I went out and changed my sG string in a record 30 minutes with no mistakes...thanks bro.
You can change strings? I’ve been burning the guitars and buying new ones for decades. Thanks for this Premier Guitar!
Really? 💀
You’re single, I assume. Lol
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You me both, strings get old, I toss it in the garbage 🤮
I’ve been restringing my own guitars for 12 years and this video was still helpful. I do a few things differently but, there are some great tips. I’ll recommend that you take all the strings off first so that you can properly clean the places you can’t reach when you’re strings are on. And cut the old strings as close to the tail piece as possible, so you don’t drag all the dirt through the string holes and cause that stickiness when you try and put the new string back through. Cheers 🤘
Yes Rwagon , I found this a good addition to helpful hints as I learn.
Just a tip* On the treble strings (right side tuners) it’s easier if you start from the bottom ( high e) and work your way up to winding the g string. This way those strings don’t get in your way.
You never stretched them.🎸
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Thank you, I am a new entry into guitar. I have strung and played a few, but I always misunderstood when someone said to use the 2nd fret to help with where to start tension before winding it up. You did a great job of showing that you had to grab it and drag it to figure out where to start. Time to restring my guitar. :)
I always use a bit of rag or fast fret cloth to pull on the strings to stretch them in a bit. This for me avoids the strings going out of tune continuously until they’ve stretched themselves enough.. good video though 👍🏻
Clip the excess string beyond the post off BEFORE winding. Otherwise the sharp string ends will scratch the nitro finish on the headstock face as you wind the tuners. Notice that this very thing happens here at 2:04. The string end gets caught on the A & G posts, then whips around scratching the face as he continues to wind.
I consider locking tuners mostly a convenience for quick changing strings unless you're using a non locking tremolo. When I started in the 80s, I don't remember anybody doing the over under stringing. And we stayed in tune no problem.
It's the first time I got it right after watching this video. My guitar stayed in tune perfectly! Thank you !!
Can't wait for the next one :)
Nice one Nikos, cheers from Greece!
Very simple and informative video. This is something that's a bit nerve racking for beginners like myself, hopefully I won't have to change my strings for a good while.
On those tuners Gibson published a way to lock the string on the tuning peg. I got the information on a Gibson card from the early 70's. I have used the method ever since and you don't need locking tuners. The way you are showing it will make it less stable
Joe Ryan yep. Wrap the first winding on Top* of the excess string then proceed to put the rest underneath
I string like the video on all my guitars. Never had tuning problems
@@jaredheld2672 that's what I usually do lol.I seen it on a RUclips video by Joe Bonamassa's tech,Hope I spelt his last name right lol.thier is also the Prs way of doing it,but I never tried it as I didn't think it was necessary,but to each their own I guess lol. So many videos on RUclips during this terrible time.I have never seen so many videos and comment.It's like a big happy family😁.Prayers go to everyone though🙏🏻,and as always.....keep rocking🎸🤘🏻
@rhadika1000 I commented the same thing lol
Gibson did many things the wrong way, as long as you have enough wraps on the tuner, and the tuner gear is properly maintained you wont have tuning issues. The top lock wrap method you are referring to, as well as any method that knots the string just makes it harder for the tuner to do its job properly. Thats my opinion, but I am a professionally trained luthier that works on guitars every day.
This way you will have slipping strings and tuning problems. First wind above the string and the remaining go under. This wraps over it's self and locks the string.
1:35 All of my guitars have 6-in-a-line style tuners, so I wasn't sure how to measure the amount of slack on a 3-per-side style guitar. Thanks!
Seeing how easy to restring, and how comfortable to use these type of guitars are, it makes me wonder. Why *wouldn't* you choose this kind of guitar whenever given the choice? Is there actually a benefit to other body types? Because this has always seemed ideal to me.
I really hoped you would have went into more detail maybe on some tips to avoid the lighter strings from coming unwound. I’ve seen some do it by bending the end to be wound a certain way but I never seem to do correctly. Guess I’ll have to find a video with better explanations and tips 🤷🏼♂️
I bought a used Epiphone Les Paul, that came with a handbook (the guy saved everything, even the box). There's an instruction in the handbook in how to change the strings. It's a bit different than in this video. You cross the strings in a way so the string is locked by itself. It's diffcult to explain, there are videos on RUclips that show how it's done. Anyway, that type of re-stringing works really well on that guiter. The guitar stays in tune so well, it's surprising for a Les Paul, because they do have a rumor about them going a bit out of tune.
No such luck with Kluson style tuners with press in bushings. They’ve always required one wrap above the string hole to get more than two wraps on wound strings.
jeremy Bower the posts are about 1/4” shorter.
jeremy Bower watch this @ 3:22 ruclips.net/video/uUOB9tGy5HY/видео.html. Hope that helps.
nice video
Just came here for the Custom 😍😍
Does anybody know why my high e string doesn't work through the amplifier ? All other strings work fine it's just the small e that doesn't .
Bad pole on pickup
thank this help alot :)
No problem!
Kalo i exi vre! \m/ Rok sto mánka!
I always turn the new string tail under and back over the incoming string first. Hmmm... live and learn!
Now I get it. Dont Cut string till Finished. We NEED it, for that initial pull/grab.
Nichos, First wrap goes above the excess string my man!
Is it below or above? Now, I'm confused.
Nope, I always do it below.
I always do first wrap above and the rest below as well. Was told it was more stable, so I’ve always done it that way.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone do the locking method, AKA, the "ProWrap" way? That's what Gary, the guy in the Dunlop video does it...does it make a difference? Cheers
As the video shows, make sure you press the heavy gauge strings onto the headstock while winding so after a few changes it starts to dig into the veneer. It will then be ready for inserting a lit cigarette onstage which will leave it burnt & charred.
Greg Lawrence dude it’s a guitar, it’s meant to be used, it’s meant to be played, and yes, it’s meant to get scratched, you’re gonna have a stroke trying to keep your guitars in grade a factory condition.
@@XneverstopfightingX - dude, I own a $5000 Gibson CS-356, 1982 LP Custom (one of the good ones), a LP DC-Plus, Rick 370/12, 1959 ES-125, a Gibson Songwriter Deluxe EC Custom Vintage, a Gibson Blues King, and several others...and for the last 32 years I have been beating the literal shit out of them over 200 shows per year. I know all about it, but I don't think you should intentionally degrade or abuse such fine instruments. - after all this abuse, I highly recommend trying to keep your instrument in as fine shape as possible, and not gouge the veneer intentionally, whether unwittingly or not. Cheers!
Greg Lawrence Dude wow. We can rattle off guitars too. I’ve got a 76 standard. How much did it cost me? Don’t care. I play the shit out of it. Same with my 66 Mustang. I play them. I don’t cry if they are exposed to real use.
@@OtherJesus True,even when I tried my hardest to keep it mint something like accidentally I would ding or scratch the breadstick or body.It's a guitar,no matter how much you try,overtime it's inevitable.Wear will happen.putting it in it's case locked up like in a safe can even cause damage.My headstock under the Gibson Logo has part of it where it turned pink from the case's cover from gasses released from the logo.I got it like that but it could happen to anyone.So I must agree.Take care of it but don't treat it like a baby.I polish it when needed,oil the fret board once in a long while,and clean the pots with deoxit as from letting them sit causes them to not work properly and get scratchy or sometimes don't work properly...🤘🏻
@@OtherJesus -Exactly. Like I said, I beat the shit out of my high end guitars, but do you intentionally gouge them? - on a side note in 1980 I bought a '72 Strat for $200 from my buddy who went to Berklee with Steve Vai. I hated it so much I sold it back to him for the same price. lol.
I just bought and tryed to change string on guitar and it aslo poped now I gotta go back to music shop😭😭😭
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I think this is for folks who dont play but collect. I couldn't imagine a player not knowing this and owning a custom
Some folks just want to play, making it possibe for guitar techs to have work. Being able to afford a custom is irrelevant.
So .....how do I do this without stabbing myself with the string? OUCH!!
sniff rat very slowly and carefully 😳
I draw blood everytime I change my strings! Haha
Take the pain. Hold in the tears, and protect the face.
With that method you’ll scratch up the whole headstock in time with all that loose wire flopping around...would you want to do that on a custom shop guitar? Not me...
Whoever doesn't lock their strings is a psychopath
-and whoever does is a psycho with OCD. lol.
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@@gettin_while_growin7 Have.
@@gettin_while_growin7 How? Grammar is how!
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I thought you guys would be more professional than this... That’s the way a beginner would change strings.
Never cut off a wound string until it has had time to stretch
Lol if you do, the world will disintegrate
thx man with your sh.... method I just spoiled an E string !
Thank DOG!
…no “Luthier Knot”
Well I somehow broke the A string
If you're going to make a video, do it properly. You missed out TWO important things to do when restringing a Gibson style guitar.
That is what the world lacked.
A video about "string a guitar".
Nobody dared to do that before.
Yh lets teach how to string a guitar without knowing how to do it
Wrong !!!!!
Please don’t mention that *G* overpriced and overrated brand ever again.
Thank you !!!
Step one: get rid of that trash brand. Done.