Help me do a better job of stringing my guitar?

[Benjo]

When I string my guitars they usually look like this. But when I get a guitar shipped to me it's strung looking much more secure around the tuner. Wrapped multiple times around with no gaps between the string and the tuner. My tuning job.is.what you see here, with those gaps.

Does this matter? My guitars aren't going out of tune and I am able to change to different tunings without issues but it certainly looks a lot nicer to happen wrapped multiple times securely around the tuner without gaps.

What's the method to be able to do this?

[Silly Moustache]

Seems I made this video for you

[SRL]

I use this method where you put the string through the peg, put a 90-degree bend about 1.5" past the peg, then pull the string tight and wrap the first coil over the top by hand. Then I maintain tension on the string while winding it, which is key to avoiding messy coils.

You end up with coils that look like this, where the first two coils hold the string end in place.

[Benjo]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

Seems I made this video for you

Very thorough video thank you for sharing. Though it doesn't help me figure out which Parts of my stringing procedure I need to change in order to avoid those gaps around the tuner though.

I am guessing it is the way I am winding around the tuner that is causing this.

[SRL]

Are you winding the string around the tuner by hand? You'll get better results by pulling the string tight (pulling away from the tuner) with one hand and turning the tuner knob with the other hand to wind the string onto the post.

[Benjo]

Originally Posted by SRL

I use this method where you put the string through the peg, put a 90-degree bend about 1.5" past the peg, then pull the string tight and wrap the first coil over the top by hand. Then I maintain tension on the string while winding it, which is key to avoiding messy coils.

You end up with coils that look like this, where the first two coils hold the string end in place.

Thanks! Helpful link and info.

[Rev Roy]

A lot of us use versions of this “Taylor Method.” Nice, clean and easy…

[TBman]

I try to get at least 3 wraps on the wound strings. On the 6th string you can see I fell short by a bit.

I trim the string at the next post up and for the 4th and 3rd strings I clip at about the top of the headstock before winding. (With regular strings, not round core).

I try to not have any overlap on the post. With the 6th string that can be a little tough to achieve though, especially with mediums with a 56 6th.

It takes practice and and a little patience, that's all.

Plus, I will use a capo as a third hand to hold the string taunt while I thread it through the post and wind. I'm also constantly pushing on the bridge pin while winding too, making sure it doesn't pop up.

[Oldguy64]

Restring your guitar.

1. Loosen strings.
Take off of tuning posts.

2. Take out bridge pin. You may need to push the string in to accomplish this.

3. As you remove each string, replace the pin in the hole it came out of.
In the case if any Tecate Taylor, throw the original pins in the garbage and replace with Ebony, Boxwood, Bone, any thing else.
Be mindful of the size of the slot.

4. As you place the strings put a kink at the ball end. Insert.
Follow with the pin and give the string a tug.
Rinse and repeat for the rest of the strings.

5. Physically put your hand inside the guitar and feel that the ball ends are up against the bridge plate.

6. Measure the string one post past the intended post. (Two finger widths). Kink the string and insert in the tuner post.

7. Pull down to the kink.
Take one wrap over the string end. Then if you can, take one wrap under the string end. Tighten...then cut the string end.
Repeat times five.

8. Tune to pitch. Stretch string gently and retune. Repeat till string stays in tune.
Repeat for all strings.

* on the b and e strings measure 2 and a half finger widths.

I’ve written this out enough times that I’ve copied and pasted it from taking them off to putting them back on.
Hope this helps.

[jazzereh]

Until I started browsing around forums such as this, and I do enjoy most of what I read here just to be clear, and I've played guitar for the better part of 50 years, it never occurred to me that changing strings would/could be an issue.

Just change them. Wrap around the post so that they are held in place. Play the **** guitar.

[ChrisE]

Taylor method all the way. Powered string winder (actually a low powered battery powered drill with 2 AA batteries in it).

[ifret]

Originally Posted by Rev Roy

A lot of us use versions of this “Taylor Method.” Nice, clean and easy…

^^^+1. The Taylor method is the method I use....quick and easy.

[Benjo]

Originally Posted by jazzereh

Until I started browsing around forums such as this, and I do enjoy most of what I read here just to be clear, and I've played guitar for the better part of 50 years, it never occurred to me that changing strings would/could be an issue.

Just change them. Wrap around the post so that they are held in place. Play the **** guitar.

You've missed the point. It's about doing a thing better. Improvement. If you don't have anything to contribute to a topic, then why post in that thread?

[Benjo]

Originally Posted by frets4fun

^^^+1. The Taylor method is the method I use....quick and easy.

Thank you!

[JayBee1404]

For the first fifty-eight years of my guitar-playing life, I changed strings the way a playing-friend showed me right back at the start - which was the ‘one wrap over, the rest under’ method. Then, two years ago, I watched the Taylor Guitars/Elixir Strings video and it changed my life - easy, quick, neat and tidy. That’s the method I’ve used the past two years. And I do them 6-5-4-2-3-1. Don’t ask why - it works for me.

One word of caution - the ‘Taylor Method’ won’t work with round-core strings, which shouldn’t be cut until wound up to pitch.

https://youtu.be/80EuGOXgoOo