What do you do with your string ends?

Jay · Unread post by **Jay** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 1:24 pm

yeah i wrap my strings a lot...the heavy ones...about 4 or 5 times...the B and E? 36 times.

fatjack · Unread post by **fatjack** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 1:49 pm

DustyDave wrote:
fatjack wrote:
DustyDave wrote:I always give the guitar a new haircut , i've several times where i've left them hanging , almost poked and eye out on myself

Cut the guitars hair , and cut it short
cutting them short isn't a very good idea either
If your guitar runs out of tune for cutting them too short , then you either put your strings on wrong , or your tuning pegs are very unstable .... The guitar stores i've been to in my life always have their guitars cut short " VERY SHORT " , and i cut mine to about 5mm or so , and it stays perfectly in tune on my end , so i would say that if your guitar goes out of tune because the strings are too short , then there is definetly something wrong somewhere , maybe you put the strings on wrong around the stringpost ?

if you notice, i said i cut mine at about half a cm, also the same as 5mm

i wasn't saying i had a problem with this, but people with lower end guitars would have to deal with this.

and i really resent the fact that you thought i put my strings on the wrong tuning pegs

DustyDave · Unread post by **DustyDave** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 1:54 pm

fatjack wrote:if you notice, i said i cut mine at about half a cm, also the same as 5mm

Sorry that one slipped :lol:

fatjack wrote:i wasn't saying i had a problem with this, but people with lower end guitars would have to deal with this.

and i really resent the fact that you thought i put my strings on the wrong tuning pegs

Im sorry , i just thought that you ment your guitar ran out of tune from that , and i would assume that something was wrong either with the hardware or they way you string your guitar , otherwise it should keep in tune

Once again im sorry FJ , please forgive me :cry:

fatjack · Unread post by **fatjack** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 2:03 pm

DustyDave wrote:
fatjack wrote:if you notice, i said i cut mine at about half a cm, also the same as 5mm
Sorry that one slipped

fatjack wrote:i wasn't saying i had a problem with this, but people with lower end guitars would have to deal with this.

and i really resent the fact that you thought i put my strings on the wrong tuning pegs
Im sorry , i just thought that you ment your guitar ran out of tune from that , and i would assume that something was wrong either with the hardware or they way you string your guitar , otherwise it should keep in tune Once again im sorry FJ , please forgive me

i never have a problem with that, i was just trying to warn other folks
its all good

DustyDave · Unread post by **DustyDave** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 2:23 pm

Yeah its good warning people , but even on a low end guitar i haven't personally seen anyone having those issues , but sometimes even a high end guitar can give problems if the strings are wrapped around the stringpost in a wrong way

t41 · Unread post by **t41** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 10:02 pm

Jay wrote:i cut them off...and sometimes i cut my hand. last night i was restringing (at 5am no less) and i stabbed a hole in my hand...

i did the same thing at 4 AM

duluoz · Unread post by **duluoz** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 3:18 pm

Damn you guys get technical with these measurements. I just cut the bastards off.

DustyDave · Unread post by **DustyDave** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 3:25 pm

duluoz wrote:Damn you guys get technical with these measurements. I just cut the bastards off.

Where was the technical part ? :lol:

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