30 minutes to change strings on one Stringmaster neck

David DeLoach · From: Tennessee, USA

I just changed the strings on one 8 string neck on my Stringmaster. It took me 30 minutes!

Am I slow, or is that an average amount of time? Sure seems like it could be done faster!
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Bill McCloskey · Posted 19 Apr 2020 11:18 am

It is taking you 3 3/4 minute per string.

Rookie speed. Smile

I have a T-8 stringmaster, a 8-8-10 steelmaster, a 12 string superslide, a D-12 superslide, two 10 string Eharps ,and a custom 14 string steel from Innovative guitars.

You get good with practice. Smile

Ian Rae · From: Redditch, England

I don't see any virtue in speed except in an emergency.
The current emergency is giving us more time, not less....
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Bill McCloskey · Posted 19 Apr 2020 12:08 pm

Here is how you change a string https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbYxmzJkrLE

David DeLoach · From: Tennessee, USA

Greg Forsyth · From: Colorado, USA

It took her about 2 minutes to change the string, while still singing! Amazing! She didn't miss a beat, and also exhibited great showmanship while multi-tasking

David DeLoach · From: Tennessee, USA

Gene Tani · From: Pac NW

Once you get to emergency room that's when the real excitement is these days

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Don't damage those tuners in speed demon mode

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Erv Niehaus · From: Litchfield, MN, USA

You need one of these:

Tim Whitlock · From: Colorado, USA

I have changed a string on my Fender 1000 in time to finish the song.

Joe Rouse · From: San Antonio, Texas

What Erv wrote.....jr

Jeff Mead · From: London, England

Mike Harris · From: Texas, USA

There's a cheaper way to go Erv's route--you can get a bit for your drill that fits your tuning key/peg. I have one and it's great for taking the old strings off, a little trickier for installing the new ones. I used to use it for 12-string guitars and for mandolins, but I might use it on my T-8 sometime.

Tim Whitlock · From: Colorado, USA

Steve Marinak · From: Man O War Cay, Abaco, Bahamas

The other day my son and I were rigging baits to go deep sea fishing. On these you wrap wire. He was telling me how it bugs him when his wrap is not perfect, even though it probably doesn't affect the rig.

I had to laugh and told him it drives me crazy when I put too much or too little string on a post and the wrap is bulbous or not enough in my mind.

Anyone have a good trick at cutting string lengths for a proper wrap? As many years I've been doing this I don't think all 6 posts come out perfect. There's usually one that I'm not happy with.
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Gene Tani · From: Pac NW

Steve:

You either hold the string taught and cut a couple tuners past the one you're going to thread it on, or you pull the string tight at the nut, pull back a couple of frets or so and cut at tuner post. But you have to make adjustments, like 3, 5,6 on e9 pedal steel need more wraps and you have to cut large gauge strings shorter
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Brian Evans · From: Nova Scotia, Canada

OK, I may be a little OCD, but I measure the OD of the tuning post, calculate it's circumference, determine what 2 1/2 winds around the post will take, and cut the string off at that point plus a half inch. I stick the end of the string just through the hole in the post, and start winding. No fancy ties or anything else. Or I cut it off just past the next tuner, because that's the same length. Smile

Gene Tani · From: Pac NW

There's another method, somebody will do the right number of wraps around tuner post without cutting the string, put it thru the hole and then cut

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/140452-Easy-string-changing

I think if you go around the mandolin, tdpri, Martin etc forums there's a lot of ways to change strings
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