I've gone ahead and put the remaining strings in this guitar and followed the exact same procedure we've already discussed.
There's one thing I want to point out as I'm bringing these up to tension to further help in terms of keeping a bend on it which you might find
if you have a shallow angle here.
In order to help achieve that bend what you can do is lay a finger on top of the string as you're tightening it up
and what that will do is help tuck it under other winds of the string.
Even though I've pulled all of the slack out and attempted to minimize it, it will be pretty typical to have at least one turn around the peg.
So if your string return can go under the wind that you've got that's just a little more pressure downward to help achieve the nut bend that I talked about.
We're getting close now to tuning the guitar but there is something we're going to do pretty critical before we actually come to tune the guitar.
If you listen to this it won't sound very good but I've got the strings starting to vibrate and make noise but they are not tight yet.
This is the place where we are going to park and take another step.
This step is to attempt to take most of the stretch out of the strings.
The reason why when you string a guitar and then for the next few days you're fighting tuning
is because the strings are still settling into their position.
That happens three places.
That happens here like we've talked about on the bridge pin we want that good and settled.
It can happen on the tuning peg. Especially if you have a bunch of winds and even with a minimal amount there is still some settling that happens.
Also the string stretches to some degree along it's entire length.
The one thing we can do to minimize the amount of time that it takes to get to that settle is to go ahead and manually do that stretch.
This might look a little aggressive but I don't think you can hurt the guitar unless you attack it like a gorilla.
What we are going to do is lift the string up a little bit from the center you can begin to apply a reasonable amount of pressure
and that will begin to settle both ends just a little bit.
Now we're going to work this string in short little sections all along it's length and I'll actually just bend it like this between thumb and fingers.
Put a little bit of stretch along it's full length.
I do this on all guitars but this is especially critical on a nylon string guitar.
The strings definitely tend to stretch more.
Again, repeating with all strings.
This is the beginning of getting the settling done.
There's one other trick we'll do when we get closer to tuning that should take the last edge off.
On the fifth string now.
You will feel this as you do it to. You will feel a little stretch coming out of the string and a little bit of settling.
There is the last one.
Now to demonstrate I'll work on this big sixth string here on the bottom.
We will bring this string up close to pitch.
Now stretch it again and listen to this.
Let's do the stretch again, a little bit more.
I don't know if you can hear that but it dropped pitch again.
We want that string to stop doing that.
It is actually easier on the sixth and fifth string, the bigger ones.
We're probably very close already.
That's close.
Let's do a small string now.
We'll get it up close and then let's do a little bit of a stretch.
Be careful on this one. Especially if you're running light strings because you can snap these ones if you're too aggressive.
A little bit along each section and then one final tug.
Listen to how much that lost.
You don't want that going on while you're performing.
A little bit more.
Less of a drop that time.
Very close.
We can get away with just one last stretch.
Almost none and I would call that good for now and finish the rest of it at tune and we're probably good.
I'm going to repeat this process for the middle four strings and then I will have some final comments for you.