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Post by Michael Messer on Sept 19, 2017 9:08:44 GMT
Thank you all for your kind words about my neat string winding. It would be difficult to count how many sets of strings I have fitted in my life and in how many different situations and environments. Apart from at home on my guitar table with all the right tools, I can think of dressing rooms, stages, hotel rooms, airport terminals, car ferries, various floors of studios, boot of the car, back seat of the car, on the street.... and so on. Numbers-wise, just on my own guitars I reckon it is something along the lines of 3500 sets, maybe more. Then there are all the MM guitars. I don't fit all, but I do fit some. So over a 50 year period it is a lot of strings!
Having read the various posts about how people change their strings and what tools and gizmos are used to help them; I am not trying to be clever or put anyone down, but I think maybe I should make a little video of how I remove and fit strings on resonator guitars. The problem of strings popping out of the tailpiece will not occur if you keep tension on the string at all times. I can't do it this week, but sometime in the not too distant future I will make a little film about it.
That photo of the Fine Resophonic headstock is quite old. It predates my guitar table. I would have been kneeling on the floor with the guitar on the couch, headstock over the edge and using a plastic string winder and a pair of wire cutters.
Shine On
Michael
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2017 11:13:44 GMT
I'm sure most of us would like an extra pair of hands when changing strings. I find an ironing board with the guitar held in place with a short bungee (under the strings obviously) works a treat,avoids the contortionist act and keeps your back straight. Nice to know my winding is on a par with yours Michael. I can never quite get the sixth as neat as the others either! Your 4th. and 3rd. are things of beauty.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2017 18:01:01 GMT
I'm currently converting an old tanglewood 12 string to a reso. With the multiple up and down tunings required to set it up etc, I've snapped about 9 so far, and stabbed myself hundreds of times (well, a fair few anyway). Part of the problem has been the tailpiece - you cant just slot them in and out on this one, they thread in. And no matter how carefully I try and keep the strings separate (two capos e.g.), they still tie 'emselves in knots
I'm never doing another!!!
TT
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Post by bonzo on Sept 19, 2017 18:52:29 GMT
I use a strip of masking tape over the ballends to stop them popping out.
Best wishes to you all, John
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Post by Michael Messer on Sept 19, 2017 20:40:50 GMT
Masking tape, bungees, clothes pegs, blu-tack, capos... I think I should make this video sooner than later  Shine On Michael |
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Sept 19, 2017 20:53:19 GMT
Masking tape, bungees, clothes pegs, blu-tack, capos... I think I should make this video sooner than later Shine On Michael .....and don't forget the profanities. |
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Post by slide496 on Sept 19, 2017 21:08:05 GMT
Capo, string winder, wirecutters and protective arm sleeves here. The deeds are done on an ikea table with pad and the dunlop head rest 65 - not much stabbing these days, but I have had strings whip around and cut my arm, and every once and a while the marks have flared up so careful there...
Harriet
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Post by Tymus on Sept 19, 2017 22:35:31 GMT
Deuce, I've had the same issue, easy solution is to slacken all the strings and stick a capo on the first fret then unscrew and remove the tailpiece leaving the strings attached!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2017 6:57:41 GMT
Yes, great idea. Unfortunately, this tailpiece doesn't go through the coverplate, so I have to remove the coverplate too. I've ended up with a capo on first fret, coverplate on the fretboard, another capo holding the coverplate in place, and the tailpiece hooked on the tuners. And this works!
TT
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Post by bonzo on Sept 20, 2017 7:06:13 GMT
Perhaps we should all take up the trumpet! Lol.
Best wishes to you all, John
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Post by Michael Messer on Sept 20, 2017 8:15:11 GMT
TT, the tailpiece does go through a National-type coverplate, but it has to be upside down.
Shine On
Michael
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2017 8:47:08 GMT
Perhaps we should all take up the trumpet! Lol. Best wishes to you all, John Wouldn't make any difference John.We'd just have long threads like how to free a stuck valve,should you leave the mouthpiece in place and what is the best brass polish. |
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Sept 20, 2017 9:39:56 GMT
My neighbour once thought I was playing a trombone when in fact I was playing my lap steel, practising on the lower three strings.  |
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