First thing we want to do is take the old strings off.
While I am doing this I want to talk to you a little bit about a tool you have probably seen in a guitar store or maybe you own one.
It's a little crank, a little plastic crank that fits over the tuning pegs and lets you spin the dickens out of those things.
I'm not a big advocate of using that because it causes a very bad habit and that is for to people to think in order to get their money's worth
They need to use the whole string as delivered by the factory and that's not the case.
As I said before one of the things we want to do is avoid slipping or stretching the other strings as much as possible.
When you have a lot of extra string wound around the pegs it takes a lot of time for that to stretch out.
So the easiest solution is just to not have it in the first place.
What you are going to see in my stringing process here in a little bit is that we're going to leave almost no slack at all up on the tuning pegs
and I'll show you how that's done.
One other note.
A common question some people have is should I take all the strings off all at once or string them one at a time to avoid stressing the neck.
In most cases it's really not an issue you can do whichever way you prefer.
I like to take them off all at once on a normal basis because that gives me a chance to do some house cleaning underneath the strings
with a guitar polish and a good dust cloth.
I'll begin taking all of these off and rejoin you in a minute when we're ready to start tying new ones on.