This was the best restringing tutorial I've ever watched. Didn't over complicate things but showed exactly where to place your hands with fantastic viewing angles.

Tech Method 0:52 Factory Method 1:32 Fast Wrap Method 2:09 Basic Method 2:35

@PhillipMcKnight

5 жыл бұрын

Awesome, Thank you Bob!

@bobbarker2814

5 жыл бұрын

Phillip McKnight Your channel is awesome! You got another subscriber!

How the hell are there any dislikes when you explain clearly that there are a thousand ways to string up your guitar besides the 4 perfectly explained ways!!! Thanks for the info really helped my kids out!!!

@ngiws4402

2 жыл бұрын

Dude just covering some of the process with his hands

@sL-ym3vr

2 жыл бұрын

3x3 you only need to go one post ahead saves time if you don't have the quick thingy

@sL-ym3vr

2 жыл бұрын

And my pastor taught me the first method

@davidrice3337

2 жыл бұрын

There's always a few

@spellplague

Жыл бұрын

@@ngiws4402 what did you expect?

This type of information is what draws me to your channel! I understand it's probably not the most profitable in terms of KZread for you, but this stuff is what that I love about your channel! It's guitar tech for dummies, and I fall into that category! Aside from maybe doing a re-fret, or fixing a broken neck I am confident now that I could do 90% of my own guitar teching because of the information I've gleaned from your videos, and I thank you for that! I've installed output jacks, installed locking tuners, cleaned and recondition pots, lowered action, adjusted the truss rod, set intonation, etc., etc. all because you gave me the confidence to do it myself! Aside from installing a set of pickups, which I'm also sure I could after watching your vids I no longer need a luthier in my wallet!

So normally I been using the basic method for years but I just tried the tech method out to see if it really helps tuning stability. So far so good and I been doing some crazy bends.

Basic method, my wraps come out super clean and I never have trouble with the strings slipping or breaking.

I used to use the fast wrap method for most of my guitar playing life. I've now become very hooked on the factory method. I find it does help tuning stability.

Used the basic method for a long time, but switched to the "Factory" method a few year ago because it seemed to help with tuning stability. Great video!

This is without a doubt the best, easiest most informative video on how to restring a guitar anywhere! Thank you for posting it. I’ve been using the Basic Method, fast and simple, for years and have had no problem with it. It’s not fancy but it definitely does the job and the strings stay in tune for a reasonable amount of time.

boy I can't tell you how much I love this..I'm sure me as well as other guitarists over the years were told that anything other than the traditional way to restring your guitar was wrong..I've heard that from old timers and people who were just unsure if there was another way to do it but it turns out they were extremely wrong and this channel has helped with the little things soooo much thank you!

Been fast wrapping for years. Time to try the tech method

Awesome, thank you Phil, any helpful tips, tricks or techniques you put on video is greatly appreciated.

Awesome video Phil. I'm a massive fan of the tech method. As for measuring the string; I pull the string all the way through the machine head, and then I pinch it at the nut and pull it back 2 frets (around 3 inches). It works on all guitars and consistently gets me 3 wraps (1 above and 2 below).

Luv the tips! Seen a person come into the guitar store while I was visiting to have a restring. Wow! Never stop learning and bond with your guitar...you are one with it!

@PhillipMcKnight et all - The best restringing video I've seen - short and comprehensive. I was screwing up string installations by unknowingly combining the luthier's knot with the tech method, and ending up with an ineffective mess!

The 1st method is absolutely the best. I am a guitar tech for over 45yrs and this method is the preferred method by every guitar tech I know. The main thing to tuning stability is to never and I mean NEVER overlap the string windings on the post. Slippage can happen real easily.

@ronaldgoebel2174

Жыл бұрын

@@NoBSMusicReviews You are a complete idiot. Your stability is super flawed and you know it! Go ahead and have fun with it. Don't want to deal with idiots so quit responding please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@dcamnc1

9 ай бұрын

@@NoBSMusicReviews Agreed, the locking/factory style is the best I've found. You have to do the "knot" tight (unlike Phillip's demo). It does seem to stay in tune better than the other methods, in my experience.

You are a GEM Phil. Thank you for always giving us all your inside tips/methods.

Holy hell you just saved me man, I've been restringing my guitar wrong for about 3 years now, I finally understand how to do it right because of you.

So useful man, I would had liked to see this video five year ago when I needed so much, but now it help me a lot, even I always was using the method number 3 and didn't know how to called it. Nice video, simple to everyone, good explanation. You are a master! Thanks

Thank you for explaining it so easily. This is literally the best restringing video on KZread.

Thanks for this. Just changing strings for the first time in years and I was having a proper mare because I forgot what I usually do, and it was an awful job. Your tutorial helped to refresh. Cheers.

Thanks again Phil for another great video. I'm going to start stringing my telecaster with the one over the top and one under the bottom method that you showed. Best way I have seen yet!

Thank you and have a nice evening. I love your Q/A show don't miss one.

Hey, Phillip. Thank you. I used the “two-post method” to measure my wrap-length. I figured that out on my own. It just made the most sense to me and I liked the results. I figure I’ll stay with it. The only difference is, now I can defend it thanks to you. As far as the actual winding, I’ve been using the “basic method”. But after seeing my options in the video, I like the “grab” of the “tech method”. It seems to be the most effective way to lock the string in place so that the only tuning issue left is caused by the string stretching if I don’t pre-stretch it enough (providing I have locking tuners). Hey, Phillip. Thanks for doing this video. I appreciate it.

I have been factory restringing but I will be trying the Tech method next. Thanks Phil for a quick and clear explanation. 👍

I use the tech method now, I used to use the factory method, wincing as I pull the offcut out. As you say they curl around and bite, can cause a deep laceration too. I think both those methods work great. The simple method can work well if you remember to add enough wraps around the post. Great video. Thanks

I used to do the fast wrap method, but I recently discovered the tech method (over under pinch) and am now utilizing that one. It seems to hold the strings better in tune.

Great video, as usual. I go the PRS way, a.k.a. factory/scorpion, and it’s been great for me. Didn’t know about the tech method, seems very interesting. I’ll be using it on my next restring this weekend. Thanks Phil! 🙌🏻

10 other videos couldn't explain nearly as much in the 10 minutes each they took of my time.... I'm a complete noob and this gave literally everything you need to know in three and a half minutes. Thank you, sir!

I really like the tech method, Thanks for the video! Without doubt this is the most helpful video I have seen! And I have watched a few. I recently went with a Telecaster and just did my first string change and it works great.

I used your first method as it seems to be the most effective. Thanks for this video. It was very helpful.

Great job on making this video. The close-ups are great too and make everything super clear.

I use the Factory Method on all my electric guitars. Thanks for the tutorial Phillip. Good to see alternative methods.

Thank you Phil, that was the best video in whole KZread of how to restring guitar. I am your big fan! Thanks a lot!

Thankyou for being quick and to the point with close up shots.

I started out using the basic method. Its fine but does take time, so I found a quicker way. I was watching The Crimson Guitars channel and Ben used the fast wrap method. I had no idea what it was called nor seen it before. Now I use the fast wrap method, it's faster and easy to do. So if I need to restring before a gig, rehearsal, recording I use the fast wrap method now. A bit fiddly on the thiner strings, not too bad. I have to try the other methods n this video. See what the pros and cons are of them all. Very helpful video, great job as always Phil.

Thanks for the tips and Interesting to know that have names and through the years I used a few. I also concur that the hook method sure makes string removal a PIA.

Thanks. So. Much. I chose the factory method and it turned out just great.

Great video. Always used to use the factory method. Just tried the fast-wrap and tech methods. Fast-wrap was too hard to do, especially on the middle set of strings on a Fender when the outer strings are already on. But the tech method rocked! Thanks!

I've always done the "Factory Method" or a basic Luthier knot. I admit, it does sometimes scare the beejeesus outta me when it pops, so I'll be doing the "Fast Wrap Method" next time.

im a self taught fast-wrap it was just what i thought worked. This video is so simple, short, and sweet, its really entertaining.

Been using the tech method for 10 plus years. works great for me. One additional technique I use is maintaining good amount of tension on the sting as I wind the string to help with tuning stability. (sorta pre-stretching it, at least that's my theory, lol)

I've been using your fast wrap method since 1982...someone gave me Elixir strings in 2007, and that's all I use....great vid!🎶

Leaned the factory method and never realized there were other methods until now! I think I like the tech method and will give that a try at next string change.

I am so impressed you made NO mention locking tuners. Thank you, Phillip,

Phillip, I've been a tech for years, retail shops, to groups the size of Earth, Wind, & Fire. What with all of the strokes I've had, I can no longer even change my own strings! I always used the "two pegs up", then wind them down technique!

Very informative and useful. I use the basic method but will try other methods. Thanks!

Definitely the most helpful video on this topic. Thanks!

Been using the tech method since I was 20. I asked a texh the best way and this is the way he said he did it. Locks in and very stable tuning

Nice explanation dude, sometime I have some trouble with keeping some strings in tune because not properly restring method. Nice vid. Thanks

So many videos on youtube teaching how to change strings, but this is by far the best one, because a lot of videos leave out important information about this process and other just focus on certain types of bridges on guitars, which this one des so, but the content and purpose of this specific video is just about the wraps and these techniques should work for most guitars i presume

Great video. Straight to the point. I hate instructional videos that ramble on because the guy loves the sound of his own voice. Thank you!

I use the The Factory Method. But I'm looking forward to trying the Tech Method the next time I change strings. Thanks for the great video!

I have used all these methods but right now because I'm so lazy I have been using the basic method but I have noticed that my guitars go out of tune quicker so next time I'll try the tech wrap again. This method seems to hold tuning better like you said, Phil, it holds the string like a clamp

Love the shop Phil. Love to see more vids like this. Can you do one on dealing with“fret sprout”?

Excellent!! All of it really simply explained. Well done buddy

I usually use the basic method but I’m intrigued by the tech method. Definitely gonna give it a try

Hahaha I love the name Scorpion's Tail! I have used this way (Factory Method) exclusively after learning it years ago, whether on standard or locking tuners, and found it reduces slip and improves tuning stability - for me anyway. The main difference is I bend that hook tight as possible so it doesn't slip much when you start turning the peg like it did in the video. And with guitar calluses (not to mention T1D test finger calluses) I don't get stung by the scorpion TOO much...

Locking tuners - best upgrade for ANY guitar, makes string changes a breeze. No winding, no knotting, no nothing. Additional tuning stability is a bonus. Before the locking tuners changing strings was a chore, no matter the method. Otherwise - great video and very useful.

So Awesome 👏 👍 I've always been a #3 LOL! Think I'll change to a 1 or 2 Such A Great Video Thank You!!

There are a few others, but I like the tech method you showed the best thx

I use the guitar tech method. Now I know what it is called. When I first started restringing my guitars back in the late 70s, the hardest part was judging how much slack to leave, to get the correct number of wraps. Too few and string would pull out, to many and the tuning would not be stable. We had no KZread to show us how, back then. So grateful to those who share there knowledge on this platform.

I have been using the fast wrap method for decades. I won't change. For me, it's the fastest way to do it when in a live situation. No bending the string to make it work makes me happy. Great video.

Great video! I think the tech method gives the best results but it's a little tricky on the unwound strings.

Great video. I have be using the tech method all my life which I didn't know. I copied how the strings were wrapped on my first guitar. Probably why I never had any tuning problems regardless of guitar peg brand.

@matthiasfoo1217

2 жыл бұрын

damn i dont have the brain capacity to determine how the strings are wrapped hahaha

I tend to use the fast wrap method. It works pretty well. I'm considering trying the tech method or the factory method to see if I like it better.

Great video Phill, i use Tech Method, i find it really does lock the strings down, thank you for the great tips and advice, and Thank You For Your Time, Cheers from across the pond.

Thanks Philip! This was very educational! I've always done the "Basic method" and tried a variation of it where I try to lock it. It has worked ok most of the time but isn't the best way. I also have tried the "Factory method" but that one is doomed to collapse. Now I'm going to try the "Tech method" seem like the best way! :) The actual best way is to substitute the tuners for "vintage" tuners (I think they're called?) where you cut the string, stick it down the hole and then just wrap the string around the tuning peg!

As a begginer i use the basic method after this video i will start using the tech method. Thank You

Really cool and helpful video! I've been trying the factory method for sometime now but I don't really like it. I'll try the first method next time I change the strings!

I always use the first method that you’ve shown but at my next string change I’ll try the luthiers knot.

wow that was the best string change vid I've evern seen thanks so much

i've got back and forth between the basic and tech methods, tho i didn't know them by name. when i was young i thought more wraps = better tuning to i definitely had too many

3 && 4 When doing acoustic however I use strictly a modified 3. Oncy you have wrapped I help tension to the peg and double check the eyelet is properly seated. Then using my fingers on the peg and my thumb ( nail down , nail up hurts if it slips which it will on a slick nail ) to prevent any peg or eyelet movement as well as forcing me to examine string placement, especially if it is a plastic bridge. They are too easy to mess up if you aren't paying attention.

Great video, Enjoyed seeing a fast the four different stringing methods.

I used to use the basic method, but after some time as a tech, I have adopted the tech method and I'm not looking back!

Fantastic! Best restringing vid. Thank you!

I use the second locking method. I just like knowing its not going to slip, and I don't change strings enough to care about the difficulty taking them off. Plus if I need to loosen the strings for some reason, they don't tend to unravel or come off. I have tried the top wrap first method and like it too.

Gonna try the tech method next time as I just saw AC/DC tech mention the same method the day before your video came out! I recently tried the hook method and felt the tuning was rock solid, until I bought a trem bar for my strat... but that's probably just the trems fault...

I use the 2 finger measure with the hook method and might start trying the tech method. I had no idea there was a name for the way i string my guitar :) cool vid and thanks!

I like the repair shop. It’s a nice backdrop for videos. These days I use the tech method. Works well. Unless I have old style tuners where you push the string in or locking tuners. Love to see a continuation with those and other types of tuners. Makes me wonder if the way I do it is normal or unusual:)

Nice quick lesson. I didn't know the tech method or the fast wind before. I usually go with the factory method.

I've use the tech method. It was shown to me decades ago by a tech for a band I was touring with, and switched from the basic method to this, and will continue to use it...just used to it now...

My method is Locking tuners :D Great vid, Phill. Love from Bulgaria =]

I use the tech method on my guitar without locking tuners

@alaysiakayebutler6299

3 жыл бұрын

Open d guitar tuner

@heyjarrod

3 жыл бұрын

@@alaysiakayebutler6299 ?

@lifesoldier

3 жыл бұрын

thanks misato

@besinio91194

3 жыл бұрын

hey me too, except I manually wrap the "over" wrap to prevent slippage especially on the thinner strings and to avoid scratches on the headstock

I have been using basic method always, easy to take strings off too when needed. I think it works well.

Thanks for the video Phil! I've always used the factory method, but I hate how messy it ends up looking

always did the hook because thats what my old guitar syllabus said, never even thought about other ways to restring. might try the fast wrap next

I've done the fast wrap method since day 1, my dad showed me years ago and I stuck with it. I've just recently started trying the hook method and not too sure if I like it or not yet.

The “hook“ method is the one I’ve been using for years now. It works amazing. But you’re right… You have to be careful when un-stringing your guitar. It is indeed easy to get poked. But outside of that, it’s a great method.

The tech method is the one I was looking for, thanks!

I do the hook method but I don't leave any slack, I pull the string all the way. Super fast and effective for guitars without locking tuners.

Shortest and best guitar stringing video I've seen after watching about 10 different ones.

I was using the factory method but have now switched to the tech method because i think its faster and possibly better than the rest, if you dont have locking tuners. Thanks man!

I've always used the tech method. Does the job and super easy.

Gonna have to try the tech method next time!

Thanks Phillip McKnight nice & simple to understand.

I have an SG and a Martin acoustic, I usually find the distance to pull the string is one machine head past, but that's a 3 x 3 head stock. and I use the tech method, it's the easiest for me to remember.

I used to just do a basic wrap, but I picked up on the tech wrap last month from a KZreadr (I don't remember who, could've been you!) And I like it

Used tech method for years but didn’t know that’s what it was called!! Lol great channel love the content!!