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Stringing a steel string guitar – how to

  A young customer, a student, recently messaged me asking me to teach him how to restring a guitar. While I thought about how to explain to him, I also wondered that often, we talk about big issues, leaving the simplest and the most essential things unexplained. So, I decided that in this blog post, I will describe how  ‘I’  restring a guitar. It is essential to understand here that there are many ways in which people string up guitars. As long as the strings don’t slip out of the tuning post, or lose tuning, all those methods are correct. But first a little look at guitar anatomy. Guitar Strings is one of the important  guitar parts  and to take off the old strings, loosen the tuning keys (machine heads) enough and then using the notch in your string-winder, pull out the bridgepins. Do be careful about keeping the bridgepins in order, remembering which pin came out of which hole because not all strings are of similar diameter. Once a pin becomes used to a cert...