Cutting Guitar Strings for Restringing

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Bryan Billhimer and on behalf of Expert Village today I'm going to show you how to re-string and tune a guitar. Now we're going to go ahead and cut the strings. I like to cut the strings down here between the pickups because there?s a big enough gap that I can get my tool in without scratching the body of the guitar. I'll lift up here and go ahead and cut it. You'll want to do that with each string. Now we've cut our strings we're going to go ahead and remove them. Start by taking the short pieces here, they've already popped out of the grooves down here but you usually have to remove them from the grooves. Just set those aside! I'm going to put the guitar upright like this so that you have better access to the head. As you can see the strings are wound, and there?s little holes in the tuning pegs that the string go through, we're just going to twist these out. You want to be careful here because these strings are sharp on the end. We're going to bend that out, you can use your tool for that too if you want, and we are going to remove the string. We're going to set those aside and when you set these aside you want to put them in a place that you can see them, because these thin ones are kind of hard to see if you leave them in the carpet you can definitely step on it and cut your toe or something. I'm going to finish these up and I'll see you on the next step."