How To Restring Your Guitar And Double It’s Life

August 1, 2008

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Here’s a great guitar playing tip if you find yourself constantly breaking strings and having to change them every time you play. It’s an awesome, and easy way to make your strings last three times as long!

To restring a guitar most people simply thread the string through the tuning peg and start to tighten. This is a good way to CUT the life of your strings in half, and is not recommended.

The trick is all in the threading. If you simply place your string through the tuning peg hold and tighten, you have just created the highest tension. This will eliminate any form of slack and doubled your chances of snapping the string when you go to break it in. Give this a go…

Instead of threading the guitar string through the tuning peg on the first thread, you should gently wrap the string around the tuning peg 3 or 4 times over. Now is the time to thread the string through the hole.

Here’s how the guitar string should look =>

See how the string is wrapped several times around the peg before threading it through the hole. This is how you make your strings last longer.

By doing this you allow more slack in your string, reduce tension and literally double the life of your strings. It provides your guitar with a heavier grip on the string which also prevents your strings going out of tune easily.

Give this simple trick a go next time you restring your guitar - I guarantee it will last longer for you!

These guitar playing tips are provided to you by Chris Elmore, owner of Guitar Tips - the fast guitar learning system.
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