restinging an electric guitar

[marty bradbury]

Good morning folks. Getting ready to put new set of strings on my electric guitar for the first time. Anything I need to know or is it straight forward as an
acoustic?

Thank you,

[stokes1971]

Take the old strings off, reverse the procedure to put on the new ones, pretty straight forward.

[jdag]

I use this method...

https://youtu.be/_sAQcAlAeKU?si=D7YdEoyM3Y5PuTBr

[ghostnote]

If you can do an acoustic, you can do an electric. Very simple.

[clintj]

It's the same. If you have a Gibson/Epiphone style guitar with a Tune-O-Matic bridge, take note of which way it sits on the posts. If you flip the guitar over while cleaning it and it falls off, you'll need to make sure it goes back on the same way.

[Rudy4]

Use the same method shown on the Taylor website for stringing an acoustic guitar. There's no need to do any special wrapping or locking of the strings at the tuner string post. All that stuff is just extra work that isn't necessary.

[Bob Womack]

He uses the "roadie wrap," over and under. It holds better immediately and holds better through bends but is more of a pain to take off. The "Taylor wrap" is easier to take off but doesn't keep tune as well when you bend.

It is amazing to me to see all the disdain between those who use one or the other.

Bob

[bls82261]

It looks like that Squier Jag has split shaft tuners, if so the method is slightly different. Here is a short video that gives the basics. If you want more details there are several different videos on youtube.

https://youtu.be/RQdn5vlVzx8?t=57

[Rudy4]

Originally Posted by Bob Womack

He uses the "roadie wrap," over and under. It holds better immediately and holds better through bends but is more of a pain to take off. The "Taylor wrap" is easier to take off but doesn't keep tune as well when you bend.

It is amazing to me to see all the disdain between those who use one or the other.

Bob

No disdain intended, just a suggestion on what I personally prefer.

[YamahaGuy]

If you stretch them moderately aggressively like I do, and you're using 9s or 8s, go easy on the G and high e strings.

[Jaxon]

same way as acoustic...i don't stretch strings i let them stretch naturally...tune, play and re-tune as they stretch naturally

[Wardo]

Takes about 10 - 15 minutes. Like it says in the Hynes Manual for cars - installation is the removal of reverse - or something like that .. lol

[guitararmy]

Unless it’s a Floyd rose tremolo it shouldn’t be too difficult.
Even with a regular tremolo you might want to change strings one at a time instead of pulling them all off at once.

[Charlie Bernstein]

What kind of guitar? Srats and Teles often have split shafts, which are nothing like other tuners. They're great. Used right, they're devilishly resistant to slippage.

There are lots of tutorials on YouTube. What they don't all tell you: It's good to put a kink in each of the unwound strings. And for extra grip on the unwound strings, I make my first wrap through the split instead of around it, Lindy Fralin-style.

[Charlie Bernstein]

Originally Posted by Jaxon

same way as acoustic...i don't stretch strings i let them stretch naturally...tune, play and re-tune as they stretch naturally

Once they're on and tuned, I always stretch them. If I didn't, I'd be retuning constantly for a week. So instead, once new strings are on. I lift the guitar by each string one at a time and give it about three good shakes.

Then I retune it and do it again. I keep doing it until they they're all in tune after being shaken. It usually take about three stretches to get them tight.

You can get the same effect by winding them too tight, then rolling back to in-tune. But I don't know how high, so I use the shake-don't-break method.

Keep in mind that whether we do it intentionally or let it happen naturally, metal strings don't actually stretch. If they did, we'd have to retune constantly until they're so thin they break. What we're actually doing is tightening them. manually or naturally, the result is the same. My way is more effort but faster. Yours is easier but takes a while. They both work find.