#11

i find them way harder, it pops out of the hole constantly when i’m trying to wind! and trying to work out how much to cut in advance. so much easier to stick it through a hole and wind and then snip it at the end. i’m not really used to it yet so i always have a mare.

i don’t mind a bit of excess string sticking out on normal ones, can look cool sometimes, though admittedly i’ve stabbed myself with a stray tip of a string on my Tele more times than one

#12

Nope, most modern guitars have tuners like the ones in Theo’s video. Fucking no idea why, the slotted vintage style are way easier.

#13

Yeah as @Epimer says, I know those but I associate them with bass guitars. I haven’t ever had to use one of those. I’m not sure what the best method would be here. I’d probably just ignore the hole unless you can feed it all the way through and cut it on the other side?

#14

pretty standard on basses actually yeah. i’ve only restrung a bass once, i can’t remember if it was a struggle or not. my Tele and most other guitars i’ve had have the same kind as Theo’s acoustic in the OP

#15

As if I’m watching that

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#16

You can use my technique to get the right length to cut because the slack created by pinning with the forefinger and holding up as high as possible with your thumb is easily enough. So everything out the end of the capstan can be chopped.

#17

Easiest way to measure how much to cut is by extending the string past the tuning head you’re going for. Extend it past the next two tuners and snip it there. You don’t need that much string actually on the tuner so it reduces the time you put into winding it too.

I just like the visual appeal in having no bits pointing out. Was considering fitting my Strat with vintage style tuners and ditchi the modern ones I have on it.

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#18

was considering doing the opposite to my Jag :smiley: i’ll probably just learn to get used to them though. yeah i was thinking it was past the next two tuners but couldn’t quite remember.

btw is it actually called a capstan or has Theo made that up?

#19

I chop mine and then rip my hands on them. I had at least one softcase where the headstock bit got ripped to fuck by the cut ends :smiley:

#20

My friend said the same thing!!!

Traditionally, a single machine head consists of a cylinder or capstan, mounted at the center of a pinion gear, a knob or “button” and a worm gear that links them.

#21

It’s worth persisting with them and you won’t have to fork out for new tuners too!

Yup, that part is technically called a capstan!

#22

Yeah, my softcase for my Strat is fucked inside thanks to the string ends. Bass softcase is perfect though.

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#23

Do you call them ‘picks’ or ‘plectrums’? I go the latter. Maybe if you’re a capstan dude you’re also a ‘plectrum’ dude.

#24

Plectrum for myself! Often shorten it to plec though. Thoughts on this?

#25

:cry:

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#26

No. Have never called it a plec.

#27

yeah it works differently with these though, you need a bit of excess but need the right amount before you start.

i’ve never done the thumb thing when restringing any guitar, does it make any differnce?

#28

alternate a bit but more ‘pick’ these days. i do hear a lot of ‘plecs’ though.

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#29

Well I’m not sure. I mean those vintage things would confuse me due to trying to guess how much to cut.

My method means you’re holding all the tension in the string with your forefinger so you don’t get that thing where the string unwraps itself from the capstan or becomes very fiddly there because there’s no pull on it…

I get about 3 or 4 loops onto the capstan on my electric I suppose but fewer on my acoustic. I guess scale length is a factor here and so forth.

#30

Haha it would be a challenge :grin:

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