Insert New Strings in the Guitar Tuning Posts

Video Transcript

"MATT GRAHAM: Actually, could we start one more time. MAN: Sorry. MATT GRAHAM: That's all right. MAN: Action. MATT GRAHAM: All right, so we've inserted the low E string through the back of the guitar and up through the bridge. It's important to note that's it's going to lay on this little saddle piece right here. And so you want to make sure that there's no slack before you kinda kink it over that saddle piece. So we're going to follow the string up the neck and we're going to take this end and we're going to put it through the hole in this first tuning post. But before we do that, we're going to align the hole parallel to the strings. So the hole--we're going to turn the tuning peg into the hole is actually facing this way back towards the bridge. And it really doesn't--there's no particular side of that hole that you insert it in. They're identical, so you just want the hole facing this way. And then I'm going to insert the end of the string through the hole. And now, we're ready to measure it and then put a kink in it that will block it down and minimize stretch."