How To Restring An Acoustic Guitar

How To Restring An Acoustic Guitar

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[jclauss2005]

I just got an acoustic guitar and need to restring it for a left can I reuse the same strings and simply switch their placement or do I need to use new strings? I'm a beginner so I'm completely lost any help would be greatly appreciated thank you

[daddariostrings]

@jclauss2005 If you're going to switch a righty guitar over to a lefty - you'd need to get a new nut for the instrument. The nut is the white block (usually made of bone, plastic or other materials, located just below the tuning gears - this is where the strings are aligned before the enter the fretboard) with 6 sized slots cut into it. You would want new strings for sure.

[rockysikander]

PLZ READ THIS HELP

hi

i practice daily and keep my semi acoustic guitar in the cover for night(until i sleep) and it can extend up to morning and evening

coz i practice only in evenings

so my question is should i regularly tune and loosen the strings coz my dealer told me to do so regularly but some guys told me that you shouldnt coz its a matter of a day and you can keep the guitar tuned for days if you practice daily

so someone PLZ TELL ME SHOULD I TUNE DAILY AND LOOSEN THE STRINGS?or not?

[daddariostrings]

@rockysikander You don't need to loosen the strings at night. You can leave them at pitch. Things not to do - don't leave your guitar out of its case during the winter months. Look into a humidification system during the drier months. Don't leave your guitar out near a heater, wood stove, vent, etc or in direct sunlight for extended periods of time...

[Gez501]

I am amazed at the guys who snapped strings after watching this video. I hope they use plastic knives and forks to eat with. OMG - those guys are dangerous if left in a room on their own!

The video? - well made! Thanks

[MrBrademan]

I have been playing guitar for 25 years, I started out teaching myself so I was never shown how to restring a guitar I just kind of figured it out on my own. I just tried your technique and it was freaking awesome. So easy for 25 years changing strings has been an arduous process involving needle nose pliers. I was skeptical about the E & B strings staying in tune but they do, this was so easy I appreciate you putting this on YouTube, I wish YouTube and this video were around 25 years ago.

[ShelsleySpecial]

@jakestansbury

Slacken all the strings until you can get your hand inside the sound hole. (If your hands are too big then get your missus to get her hand in there! Feel back towards the bridge, you will feel the ends of the bridge pins sticking through. Feel for the one you need to release and push it up and out. I have done this 3 or four times for stuck pins, works every time. Don't be tempted to try and prise them out from the top you will damage the bridge. Good luck

[boredpersona]

@MelissaSchiller Your strings would be looser and would be harder to tune, but they won't snap like this.

[boredpersona]

@MelissaSchiller What's happening is that you're adding tension to your strings, and with that tension the strings will most likely snap. At E and B, the strings are already tightened a lot. What I recommend you do, if you wish for your E and B to be 3 half steps up, is tune your other 4 strings, G, D, A, and E 3 half steps down to E, B, F#, and C#, respectively. From here you should put a capo on the 3rd fret which would give you what you would have at open originally.

[jakestansbury]

i broke one of my strings and stupidly cut the broken string really small down to the pin and now cant take the pin out! any suggestions because i really need to restring it!

[00aznpride]

Awesome guide; nice and simple

[MelissaSchiller]

sometimes I tune my high B and E strings up 3 semitones (so they turn into a D and G). 3 times in the past 2 weeks, my high E string has snapped. does this have anything to do with the length of the string I thread through the tuning key hole? usually I leave an inch or two, and the rest of the string wraps around a million times. since I often tune my higher strings up, should I leave more string when restringing, or is my snapping issue unrelated?

[daddariostrings]

@Grecianite1 There are lots of ways to restring a guitar- the videos on our site are the ways that most of the musicians that work at D'Addario have used for years. There are a few versions that we've seen online that aren't quite what we'd agree with so that's why we decided to put up versions that we believe in.