I can't be the ONLY one...

[SwampString]

Sitting on the couch, changing strings the other night. Movie on the TV, just going through the routine of de-stringing and re-stringing.
Get done, tune up, strum a chord, and realize i put the D and G strings on in reverse order! (Doh!)
And they're COLOR coded D-Addarios for goodness sakes!
Sheesh. As if doing it once wasn't bother enough!
Anybody else guilty of SWD (stringing while distracted)?

[llew]

Oh yeah...I've done that but I wasn't watching TV. You have a good excuse?!?

[Orfeas]

Hello!!!!!

I am here too. Talking on the phone with a Greek mother is challenging! They are loud and talk A LOT! So, the B went to the high E a couple of times.

[Brucebubs]

On a 12-string guitar I like to put the 6 strings that are nearest to the saddle on first - that way the strings behind can touch the bridge pin in front if they need to.

I've twice wound them on the wrong tuner.

Skip one, thread one, skip one, thread one .....

[SwampString]

Sadly, no alcohol was involved either, there llew!

[zabdart]

Originally Posted by SwampString

Sitting on the couch, changing strings the other night. Movie on the TV, just going through the routine of de-stringing and re-stringing.
Get done, tune up, strum a chord, and realize i put the D and G strings on in reverse order! (Doh!)
And they're COLOR coded D-Addarios for goodness sakes!
Sheesh. As if doing it once wasn't bother enough!
Anybody else guilty of SWD (stringing while distracted)?

"Well... nobody's perfect." -- Joe E. Brown, in Some Like It Hot

[mattwood]

I was just wondering the other day as I was restringing if anyone other than myself had done that. Good to know I'm not alone.

[robj144]

I've never done that, but I once wasn't paying attention and wound the tuners on the G, B, and high e strings the wrong way. Not a big deal once you knew which way to turn them. It looked a little weird though.

[crikey]

I know I've done it. Can't remember exactly when...but I know I've done it.

[llew]

Originally Posted by SwampString

Sadly, no alcohol was involved either, there llew!

We can fix that!

[Tico]

I did that last month.

Confession: wine WAS involved.

[Mr. Jelly]

One of the reasons I change my strings one at a time.

[Von Beerhofen]

That should result in some interesting chords, providing the tuning for each string was right, Maybe others will pick up on it and create a whole new style of guitar playing. Inverted tuning.

Ludwig

[Glennwillow]

Originally Posted by SwampString

Sitting on the couch, changing strings the other night. Movie on the TV, just going through the routine of de-stringing and re-stringing.
Get done, tune up, strum a chord, and realize i put the D and G strings on in reverse order! (Doh!)
And they're COLOR coded D-Addarios for goodness sakes!
Sheesh. As if doing it once wasn't bother enough!
Anybody else guilty of SWD (stringing while distracted)?

I made this mistake once, too. I snapped the D string trying to get it up to a G. I felt really dumb. Thankfully, I made this mistake only once. Stuff happens...

- Glenn

[dagobert]

Can't say I have....