changing srings.

[matt-muser]

i haven touch my electric for like 2 weeks and all my strings are rusting.. i am gonna change soon, but just wanna ask u guys whether is it recommendable to like remove all the strings and string or remove th strings one by one..

 

[suckasucks]

IMO it doesnt matter. personally i remove them all at the same time when i restring my guitar so i can clean up the fretboard.

 

[danial]

hey, is there any diffrence ?
for me i take all out then string it .

 

[Everdying]

well, on some guitars, cheaper ones especially, there have been horror stories of frets coming loose when there isnt any string tension

 

[almondx]

Imo, those stuff on the net that says taking off all the strings on your guitar will cause the neck to warp unrepairably due to lack of tension is not true.

I doubt guitars are strung up during the manufacturing process.

For ppl with t.o.m bridges, they normally leave 1 string in place to hold the bridge in place while they string up the others.

 

[matt-muser]

heard that by removing all the strings will cause a floating bridge?

 

[Everdying]

notice i didnt say warp...
but there have been cases of the some frets lifting up out of its place ever so slightly, so that when you string it back up...there will a buzz that wasnt there previously.
you can also ask guys who've done re-fretting, they would definitely have seen it happening before, but of cos since the neck is gonna be re-fretted like they care

 

[ilzaf]

ive a question ive been wanting to ask.

whats imo?

 

[Crawldaddy]

Hmm.

I would recommend removing all the strings so that you can not only give your axe a new set of strings, you could also clean up the fretboard, polish up the frets somewhat, and even clean up the body neck etc along the way.

I recently did that for my telecaster (and polished up basically all of the hardware)... psychologically I felt like I was playing a brand new axe.

 

[sleepykitty]

imo = in my opinion

imho = in my humble opinion

8)

 

[Reth]

Used in: "Imho, I think you should add in the missing T to the title."

 

[ilzaf]

OH! after so long.
its only now that i find out the meaning.

hahaha.

 

[sleepykitty]

better late than never!

 

[dric]

well if your using a floyd rose, it would be more advisable to restring one at a time. however, when i want to polish my frets and clean up the fretboard, i remove all the strings and sort of temporarily block the floating bridge.

 

[matt-muser]

oh... cool...

 

[matt-muser]

oh... cool...

 

[matt-muser]

oh... cool...

 

[bouncychu]

eh?ive always been taking the pliers and snipping off all 6 strings at 1 go X=