How to Use a Les Paul-Style Guitar Headstock

Video Transcript

"MATT GRAHAM: Okay. So on this model of guitar where you've got--it's an electric guitar, but the headstock is laid out more like an acoustic typically would be as opposed to having all of the tuning keys on the same side of the headstock, six in a line, it's three by three. So there's three on this side and three on this side. And what happens is, if you look at these, they're all wound counter-clockwise around these posts, where these strings are all wound clockwise around the post. And so as we measure, as we insert our string into the tuning post right here, it's important to note that instead of going counter-clockwise--I mean, instead of clockwise like we would on this side and like we would on all of our initial bends of the strings on a guitar where all the tuning keys are in line, we're going to go the other way. We're going to go counter-clockwise underneath the string, like that, and then we're going to bend it back over the string to create that lock. And what that's going to do is when we start rotating it clockwise, whereas with these we'll rotate them counterclockwise to lock it down, the string will lock down on itself. It's just an important thing to note if you're restringing an electric guitar where the tuning keys and the tuning posts are lined up three by three."