If I want to unstring and restring with same strings?

Lane Gray · From: Topeka, KS

So I damaged some pickup wires assembling the Bud (don't ask), so I'm gonna pull it and send it to Jerry for a rewind.
If I want to reuse the strings that are on it (they've been played all of five minutes), what's the easiest/best way of keeping them from flying everywhere and staying reusable?
I'm leaning towards clamping them in a Beard Dobro capo and just letting that lay on the neck.
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Richard Sinkler · From: aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana

Telonics shows using a round thing placed under the strings near the pickup that raises the strings high enough to deal wit the pickup. I would assume it depends on how much string you have wound around the tuning key post. Go to the following site and go to page 11. It shows how to do it.

http://www.tpa-az.com/downloads/Pickups_InstallationAnd%20Usage120611.pdf
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Jon Light (deceased) · From: Saugerties, NY

I have removed pickups without unstringing. My solution is far from elegant or efficient from an engineering standpoint but it works.

I took a 1" x 2", approx 8" long and tapered down one end (a long, gradual taper) so that I can insert this 'ramp' under the strings. As it hits the strings I loosen a couple and keep inserting, loosening, inserting farther...etc., until this 2" (1 3/4") bridge is supporting all the strings. They remain under enough tension that they don't pop off the changer fingers and this rig is positioned close enough to the pickup to provide enough clearance to slip it out & off.

The 'ramp' is sanded super smooth so as to not catch & grab.

It works.

Lee Baucum · From: McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier

I made a triangular shaped "tube" out of heavy cardboard. The flat side of the tube lies on the surface of the fretboard and the peak goes under the strings.

Like Jon, I loosen a couple of strings, slide in the tube, loosen a couple more, slide the tube in some more, etc. I usually start at about the 12th or 14th fret. Once I get the tube pushed under all the strings, I loosen them more, equally, and start sliding the tube toward the pickup.

James Morehead · From: Prague, Oklahoma, USA - R.I.P.

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Lane Gray · From: Topeka, KS

James, I know that they remain usable. I was just trying to keep them organized.
I kinda like that tube thing of Telonics, but it does seem that there'd be some contorting to get the pickup out under the strings. And I don't have a suitable tube handy.
I think I'll take a picture of what I'm thinking of with the Beard capo. Since I happen to have one, it seems dead easy. I do like your bunch and loop idea, too.
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chris ivey · From: california (deceased)

i'd just slack the strings and pop em off the changer end.

Peter den Hartogh · From: Cape Town, South Africa

I just stick the ball-ends in sequence onto a thin knitting needle or kebab stick or whatever is available.
I then use masking tape at the ends to prevent them from slipping off.
An elastic band around the jack plug and the stick will keep the strings tout.
Alternatively also disconnect the tuner ends and take the whole bunch off.

Bill Moore · From: Manchester, Michigan

Tony Dingus · From: Kingsport, Tennessee, USA

I've used a piece of cardboard and stick behind the changer fingers to keep the strings from poping out. I never had any problems with any string.

Tony

Larry Bressington · From: Nebraska

As chris sayes... and then run a wire through the loops. Use the 3rd string and cut the end off that went through the key head, you probably wont be re-using that one anyway...Reusing them lane? Very Happy

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Lane Gray · From: Topeka, KS

The second string is the highest. I'm using a variant of the Anderson tuning I call "Unflatted Bb6."
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Jim Cooley · From: The 'Ville, Texas, USA

I do it like the on the Telonics site. I use a clean plastic drink bottle, like a 20 oz. Gatorade bottle.

Tony Prior · From: Charlotte NC

or bite the bullet and change the set..$10....thats still an option ! Sad

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Ray Minich · From: Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra

They probably need changed anyway.....

I know mine do.
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Clete Ritta · From: San Antonio, Texas

Bunch them all together and coil them around 3 times like new strings, looping the ball ends 2 times through. When unwinding, separate the strings from low to high carefully.

Lane Gray · From: Topeka, KS

I just used a glass pop bottle. Worked great.
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David Mason · From: Cambridge, MD, USA

As far as storage, just looking around the living room, I have a five-string set of low-B bass strings (for my five-string, currently strung as a high-C (EADGC) bass; and two twelve-string sets of steel guitar strings threaded through their balls on a bent piece of picture wire and hanging from any available nail. When I first got my MSA 10/12 string Super Slide, I got kinda enthused about making up new & unprecedented`` 12-string combinations with lots of close voicing in the low and upper strings, maybe like, 5-1(root)-2-3-5-6-8-2(9)-3-5-6-8. Everything I played sounded like a mediocre barely-in-tune drunken harp player, except when it was worse.

Though I don't currently have a li'l missus underfoot complaining that strings and cords hanging all over the place, music books, a few hundred picks* and assorted splattered miscellany isn't some form of "art", heck just leave stuff hanging up long enough and it all becomes art eventually. Look at Van Gogh.

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*(Well you just NEVER KNOW when you might really need one! Very Happy

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Carl Kilmer · From: East Central, Illinois

I just loosen the strings and slip a 2" PVC tube under them.
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Clete Ritta · From: San Antonio, Texas

Haha David, my wife gets a little ticked now and then, but mostly somehow tolerates my guitar repair, modify and build projects (organized chaos). My office desk is often littered with disassembled guitar parts for days on end, and the shelves are a permanent work of *art*. Shocked

Not to mention the garage! Whoa!

Lane Gray · From: Topeka, KS

Carl, the pop bottle (glass) that I used had a distinct advantage over the pipe: I had pop, not pipe.
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Gene Jones · From: Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)

The strings have been compromised....your best bet is to replace them with a new set.
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