Guitar maintenance for beginners

Re-stringin and cleaning the guitar

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[aletia94]

what's the name of the thing you use to turn the tuning nobs quickly?! hope i explained myself well, i'm not a native speaker... :)

[laripsspiral]

@aletia94

String winder.

[metallicaJHmetallica]

just a question would it be okay to keep the 2 E strings on there for tension to clean my fretboard??

im trying to clean my guitar with a floyd but i dont wanna do anything bad to my guitar please help

[laripsspiral]

@metallicaJHmetallica

I would keep them, even better if you can do the cleaning removing strings one-by-one.

[okreguit]

men....you're doing it ALL WRONG...do you actually know the procedure to re-string a guitar?? how you dare to post a video title maintenance for beginners if you ARE A BEGINNER...

first lesson: you have to change string by string in order to keep some tension and avoid bridge mismatches...if you want your guitar to have a long life if don't keep doing the same.....that way your guitar won't last

[laripsspiral]

@okreguit

It is demonstrably fine to change them all together, at least every now and then. As you do when you e.g. change pickups. If I don't do any cleaning I change them one by one. Then of course it's better to loosen the truss rod if it is going to be stringless for a longer period of time.

[XmortdreadX]

you should make a video on how to change parts, like the pickups, tuning nobs, volume controll and other things =D, but thats probably too complicated D=

[laripsspiral]

@TM1934

It's a fricking guitar. I respect it by playing it.

[Spade103XBL]

@okreguit If you're JUST changing strings, you do them one by one. If you're cleaning your guitar and doing something like polishing your frets.. It's alright to take them off. Not too often. Once every 6 months or so should be ok

[maggot6639]

@metallicaJHmetallica but a battery or something to keep the bridge from setting all the way down

[TheWonkeyJoe]

@metallicaJHmetallica put a 9 volt battery wrapped in celotape under the floyd, unclamp the strings clean it, reclamp strings remove battery it will return to the same tuning and no hassle

[adrielchng]

Something to note is dont just cut the strings anywhere, cause theres bits that will fall onto your carpet etc, best do it outdoors!

[teerexness]

@SanjeevGeorgeV, I wouldn't use olive oil. I don't think that what's good for us is relative to your fretboard's health. I think any edible oil will degrade and get sticky and/or smelly. Lemon oil (from the furniture care section of your grocery store) has inedible petroleum oil added to it, probably for just that reason (although I'm just guessing). Stuff which is unhealthy for us to eat is usually also bad for bacteria growth, and this is probably good for the surface of your fretboard.

[SanjeevGeorgeV]

@teerexness Can olive oil be used?

[teerexness]

@SanjeevGeorgeV, For 35 years, I've used lemon oil (commonly available in grocery store cleaning supply sections) on my guitar fingerboards. I have two main electrics (both ebony fingerboards), one is 26 years old and the other is 10 years old and they both look brand new. My #1 advice for keeping a nice looking fingerboard, extending the useable life of your strings and perhaps even avoiding illness is to keep your hands clean. I always wash mine before touching any guitar, ever.

[SanjeevGeorgeV]

good. For fretboard cleaning, is there any other way, I mean, using home made stuff,etc.?