String change

Jam10

I just changed the strings on my guitar today. It is the first time I did it myself. I broke the high E string buy tightning it too much. My question is.... approximately how much slack do you leave yourself when putting the string through the tuning peg before wrapping the string around the tuning peg?

exhausted

roughly 2.5 inches or so is what i do.

assuming a fender headstock, if i'm stringing the low E, i'll leave slack equivalent to reaching the G tuner or so. so however long that is.

ianvomsaal

I pre-cut all of my strings before I put them on - I cut about a tuner and a half for the wound strings and about 2 for the plain ones.

xtremehardy388

I don't cut mine at all. Is that bad?

FinsburyParkCarrots

ianvomsaal wrote:

I pre-cut all of my strings before I put them on - I cut about a tuner and a half for the wound strings and about 2 for the plain ones.

That's pretty much what I do.

ianvomsaal

xtremehardy388 wrote:

I don't cut mine at all. Is that bad?

I think you probably end up with a bit too much winding if you don't cut them, and if you use your tremelo at all you run into
all kinds of tuning problems because all the wraps loosen up - the fewer wraps you have the less problem you have with that.
This is a prime example of why they make locking tuners - and on top of the tuning problems it just looks really messy.

xtremehardy388

AH HAH! I SEE! I have crazy tuning problems.

brain of c

three or four times around the peg will do.