Restringing a Nylon-String Guitar

Video Transcript

"Restringing a nylon string guitar is a little bit different. There are no string, a I'm sorry, there are no balls on the ends of the string. There's just a straight piece of string where on the electric that we used earlier, the solid body, you saw there was a small ball that held it in place as you pulled it through. Now here on this guitar there's a hole in the back of the bridge right back here. Now you're going to feed the string through that hole, you're going to pull it up and you're going to leave about three times the length of the bridge behind it. So you've got the string coming through here you're going to bring it back and pull it behind itself and wrap it around as you come back out. You'll have some slack that you can later cut off but you're going to tie it. Again, you're going to wrap it back and around itself and over under you can kind of see it overlapping here against the bridge. So once you've got that you'll be able to pull this string tight and it'll stay in place. Now on the top of the guitar, on the headstock, instead of having a post like the solid body guitar, the post is inside. So you're going to go through the hole in there, again hold up about a little more this time maybe three or four inches of slack on the string. And then begin to wrap it around by holding that string in place with your finger as you tune it. Get up so there's a little bit of tension and then once you have some tension use a tuner to get it where it needs to be."