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Location: NC | When you guys and gals change your strings do you take all of them off at one time then re-string or do you do one at a time?
I heard to do one at a time and not take all 6 off at once. |
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Location: Midland, MI | I take them all off. Makes it easier to clean and oil the fretboard. Some say not to, some say it doesn't matter. I say, it works for me. :) |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | One at a time. Otherwise, you may have to adjust your neck if you take them all off. The tension is too extreme from no strings to all strings. An ebony fretboard rarely needs to be oiled.
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Location: Upper Left USA | Wow! Call me more like Cruster.
All strings off so as to oil and clean that part of the top that collects all the gunk. Never had a problem. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Actually, I've found that an ebony fretboard should be oiled just as frequently as a rosewood, so be careful. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I change them one at a time but about every 4th time I change them out, I remove them all and do a really good cleaning of the frets and board.
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Location: Zion, Illinois | My owner's manual for my 1974 Glen Campbell says to take them all off. I rarely do, except to give my guitar a good oil and cleaning. |
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Location: NJ | I've always removed all of the strings on all of my O's and never had a problem with any of 'em . . . |
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Location: Tennessee | What? You mean you gotta change those things? |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I do them one at a time and tune each one so I am close to standard pitch when I finish. I have had my Viper for many years and have never oiled the neck, I have oiled the picker a few times. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Take them all off. It doesn't hurt anything. I've done it for YEARS and never had a problem.
I do them 3 and 3 on the Nationals to keep some pressure on the saddle and cones so they don't slip around because they will if you let them. Getting them reset without rattles and the close intonation isn't easy or that much fun. An archtop with floating bridge would be the same. |
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Location: Waurika OK | I have always taken all the strings off at the same time. I do unwind each string some before I cut them, this lets the tension off gradually.
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Location: NJ | One at a time, only because in the days before tuners it was easier to tune |
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Location: SoCal | Take 'em all off, then clean and oil the guitar. |
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Location: Central Florida | I'm in the "take 'em all off camp." I, too, have been doing this for 30+ years and have never encountered a problem.
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | OK, some pretty reputable experience & authority here. I always had done them one-at-a-time, and been frustrated in my cleaning adventures. So, I won't be *as* neurotic removing them all on the next changeover. Now, where did I lay those meds.......... |
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Location: Asheville, North Carolina | I think taking them off one at a time may be an old urban legend. And many years back when musicians used really heavy strings. However I will admit to doing as someone else stated for ease of tuning back up. It certainly won't hurt either way. But these days especially on my Ovation, which by the way has very stable neck to body joint and an extremely strong neck...It is also less prone to humidity movements compared to all wood guitars. So...I detune all strings and cut them in half to get the strings to slide right out of the bridge. I DON'T save old strings :p I then clean and oil the next with *Fast Frets* polish a bit and restring. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I have to mention that my technique of string changing has a lot to do with my mandolins with bridges that fall off if you remove all the strings, then have to be reset for intonation. |
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Location: NC | Thanks folks............. :) :D :p |
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Location: Asheville, North Carolina | Bailey..fyi
A mando player friend of mine puts some kind of thin removable doublesided tape under his bridges on his mandos and mandocellos. So that they don't move. I noticed that he changed his strings all at once and was curious, so I asked. He also said it is removable and doesn't hurt anything. He got the idea I believe from the infamous Randy Hughes acoustic tech who live in Asheville, NC. I don'tknow if its of any help but thought I'd mention it for the heck of it. |
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| On my 6 I change them all. Perhaps not smart but I have been doing it for so long like this with no troubles I don't worry anymore. I change the bass strings on my 12 first then the octave strings. unless I want to polish the fret board on the soft buffer wheel a little.
Did I tell you I like to loope my strings at the tuners?
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | On my 12 I change them out all at once, Unless i break a string, then i just replace that one. I've never had a problem. |
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Location: SE Michigan | Just to be safe I change one string on one guitar, then I go to the next guitar and change one, and work my way through my stable, one string on one guitar at a time. |
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Location: Los Angeles, California | You just have to love the design of the Ovation bridge. At lease re-stringing is simple and as straight forword as it gets.
With some of my guitars with the pin bridge, the pin is either tight or loose or worse it breaks from age. There is one I have that I have found I have to change one string at a time because the pins only fit exactly in the hole they came out of. I tried making a little board with drilled holes so I could keep them in the right order but I keep loosing it! Then it takes longer to find it than it would have to just do it.
On my string-through-back solid bodies, the end of the string always gets caught on at least one of the saddles or doesn't get "set" properly in the hole or some stupid thing.
Another Ovation advantage!
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | I change strings one at a time unless I intend to lemon oil the fretboard, then I remove them all at once. Never had a problem either way.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Elite04
Good tip, I'll try it.
Good thread all with some good revelations. |
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Changing strings............