Anatomy of the Guitar Head Stock

Video Transcript

"Alright so on the head stop we have tuning pegs right here these guys and then these I'm not sure what these are called. I think they're just part of the tuning pegs apparatus; we'll call them pins for now. Anyway, so if you're putting strings on your guitar you want to make sure that that all of the strings are coming from the inside of the pins so see how the string is coming from inside of the pin on all of these kind of facing each other You just kind of tune by tuning this knob here and a good quality tuning pin or rather a good quality tuning peg will have these tuners will not move. On cheaper guitars they just have a little wobble in them and then moving down to the neck of the guitar, this is the nut these are obviously these are the guitar strings. These are steel strings. Typically acoustic and electric guitars have steel strings and classical guitars have what they call gut strings which are actually just plastic. And even the metal the ones that look like metal have a plastic core with metal wiring wrapped around them. These have a steel core with steel wiring wrapped around the steel. Alright so this is what they call the nut, and these are frets. Coming up there's a varying gap, the gap gets smaller as you go up the neck."