Things You'll Need:
- Your new guitar strings (I prefer Ernie Ball Super Slinky's)
- Wire Cutters of some sort, even if they are just on a pair of pliers.
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Step 1
If you don't want to spend the next three hours tuning your guitar you want to find something you can wedge between the bridge and guitar body so that when you loosen the strings it will stay at about the same place. If you don't mind spending a lot of time tuning skip to Step 2.
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Step 2
Start loosening your strings, once they are slack loosen the screws holding them into the bridge and remove the strings.
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Step 3
Take your new strings and slide them down through the tuning pegs, so that the bullet is up against the peg and the naked end of the string is running down the neck to the bridge.
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Step 4
Pulling the string taut, use your wire cutters to snip off the extra string, leaving yourself with almost no slack. If you aren't sure how much to cut off, remember you can always tighten it more, but you can't really add more once you cut it. So always err on having too much, rather than too little.
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Step 5
Once all your strings have been cut to length, and you've put them in the bridge and tightened their respective screws it's time to start tuning. If you placed something between the bridge and body of your guitar it won't be that much different than you are used to. Tune, stretch your strings, and tune again. If you didn't...enjoy the near endless process of tuning, then re-tuning, then re-tuning, etc...
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Step 6
Time to shred.
Comments
rockonman said
on 9/30/2009 A product I recently tried is GHS Fast-fret...it's awesome, and I highly recommend you try it out.