Does anybody string their instruments with the "loop" method?

[still.ill]

http://www.deanmarkley.com/Info/Inst...gChange2.shtml


i try to do it like him but i can only get like 1 wind

[Mr Savage]

Yeah, I string all of my guitars like that. I find that they stay in tune better. Can you only get one wind because your posts are too short? I usually don't do any more than two winds, since the string is held in place I'm not sure you need as many.

[John Ward]

When I was a kid the owner of Medley music showed me how to string a guitar like that. Been doing it like that ever since but with 2-3 winds.

[still.ill]

once i get it to over itself the string just refuses to make any more winds-- i can force it but once i start tuning it up those winds just become useless, not actually winded


at step 7 here
http://deanmarkley.com/Info/Instruct...ngChange.shtml

[echale3]

I've been doing it like that for years now, but I generally space it so I get about 3/4 of a wind on the peg for the E-A-D strings, and about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 winds on the peg for G-B-E strings. It doesn't slip despite having so few wraps, and doesn't take hardly any time at all to "bed" on the post...

[JSD]

Thats pretty much the way I do 'em too.

[Blue4Now]

yep that's the way I strin as well. I go for 2 winds on the bass side and about 4 on the treble

[MartinPiana]

Don't quite understand the difficulty OP is having, so cant' help (sorry).

But I favor this approach as well. I use at least one full wind on E-A-D strings, since once I came up short -- about 3/4 wind -- and I got some buzzing. The three high strings I give a couple winds.

[kodecar]

I do. Is there another way? (Locking tuners don't count)

[still.ill]

Originally Posted by echale3

I've been doing it like that for years now, but I generally space it so I get about 3/4 of a wind on the peg for the E-A-D strings, and about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 winds on the peg for G-B-E strings. It doesn't slip despite having so few wraps, and doesn't take hardly any time at all to "bed" on the post...

Yeah- that's exactly my sitatuion

[larimar]

Nope.

[soli528]

That's how I do it, but rather than the sliding the string under the finger 1 fret back thing, I just run the string up around the next post and make the bend there. Then I slacken the string so the bend is at the hole and wind up- 2-3 winds everytime. On an LP or any other 3 + 3 headstock, there's obviously no post above the D & G strings, so I run the string up and over the end of the headstock, making the bend there. It's almost the same distance, about 1.25".

[Scott Auld]

Started doing it this way about a year ago and like it better than my old way.

[rydog2223]

Looks pretty slick. I have been using the way Seymour Duncan shows on his site.

[rollyfoster]

HA! "How to change gitar strings"

gitar? nice.