[playssoftlylivesloud]

I've heard that you should change your strings one at a time so as not to shock stretch the neck or your guitar... BUT I saw someone take them all off at once and there didnt seem to be any difference does it really matter which way its done??? I mean guitars arent built with strings on them right ???? is it just a preference thing is what I'm askin i guess

[musicman2000]

it dosen't make a difference, when i change my strings i take them all off at once.

[simonlewis07]

it dosen't make a difference, when i change my strings i take them all off at once.

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me too.

just make sure you loosen them all before you take any off, because you dont want to, for example, take off the low E while your high e (and all the rest of the strings,for that matter,) are still applying pressure/torque.
that's a good way to fvck up your neck.

[musicman2000]

i just loosen all of them and them cut them in the middle.

[simonlewis07]

i just loosen all of them and them cut them in the middle.

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why?

[musicman2000]

it's easier that way.

[simonlewis07]

it's easier that way.

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i suppose

[MakoMako]

i just loosen all of them and them cut them in the middle.

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why?

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it's easier that way.

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It would make sense. When you leave it intact, you've still got to unwind the string, where as cutting them in the middle, you just grab the string and you can unwind it quicker without having to touch the tuner. Smart thinking Music.. gonna start doin' that.

[rasav]

I pop 'em off so I can clean the area around the soud hole and between the tuning posts and so I can de grime the fret board.

[shellshoe]

it's hard for me to just cut them all off, i have to go one at a time, starting at the middle... maybe i'm just anal.

[dadfad]

I take them all off. It might make a little sense changing one at a time if you have an arch-top with a floating bridge maybe and you have a hard time re-intonating it, otherwise it doesn't hurt anything to take them all off at once.



My removal method... wind 'em all loose with a string-winder. Pop out all of the bridge-pins (which I line up to go back into the same holes they come out of). Pull out the ball-ends. Wind 'em all together about half-way up the neck into a single coil (a couple of tucks with the ball-ends hold 'em all together), then take them loose individually from the tuner-posts, then finish coiling them into one coil and toss 'em. (I hate getting stabbed in the future by some little lost piece of string in the carpet or something! Everybody has their own way.


And welcome to GTU.

[Catcher In The Rye]

it dosen't make a difference, when i change my strings i take them all off at once.

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me too.

just make sure you loosen them all before you take any off, because you dont want to, for example, take off the low E while your high e (and all the rest of the strings,for that matter,) are still applying pressure/torque.
that's a good way to fvck up your neck.

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