Changing Strings

Changing strings on the guitar is a very crucial part of maintaining your guitar. There are few things that should be kept in the mind while doing so.

When you are buying strings, please buy a whole new set. Do not buy one or two piece. Also, when one string breaks while playing, change the whole set, not only the broken string. But if you are running out of money, do as affordable. If you change one or two strings and keep some old strings in your guitar, there will be an imbalance in brightness of sound coming form the strings and you will not be able to get the best tone out of your lovely instrument.

The next thing is, whatever brand you prefer to buy, go for it, but always remember to buy strings of the same gauge as your old guitar strings have. If you buy a different gauge set, your guitar neck will bend and you will be facing either fret buzz or higher action. If you are intentionally changing the gauge, do not forget to adjust the truss rod of your guitar. It will balance the new tension of the strings and will save your guitar neck from bending.

Now, when you change the strings, prefer to change one at a time. Do not take out all the six strings. Take out one string at a time and replace it with the new one. Proceed like this for the other strings too.

Many of you face problems while changing strings on the floating bridge. Right? When you replace a string from a floating bridge, the angle of the bridge changes. Then you replace it with a new string and try to balance the tuning as well as the angle of the bridge. But I really don't know if you achieve it or not. The nightmare comes when you have to clean your fretboard and you need to take out all the strings together.

But here is an end to all of your problems. Before removing any string, just do as shown in the figure.

Just set the angle of the bridge at which you want it to be after changing the strings with the help of ice cream sticks or whatever alternative you have. Now you can change the strings as you do in a fixed bridge guitar. After tuning, remove the sticks. If there is a little bit of altering in the tuning, use the fine tuners to tune it again. And now you are ready to play!