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!
Yeah, my softcase for my Strat is fucked inside thanks to the string ends. Bass softcase is perfect though.
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Do you call them ‘picks’ or ‘plectrums’? I go the latter. Maybe if you’re a capstan dude you’re also a ‘plectrum’ dude.
Plectrum for myself! Often shorten it to plec though. Thoughts on this?
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No. Have never called it a plec.
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?
alternate a bit but more ‘pick’ these days. i do hear a lot of ‘plecs’ though.
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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.
Haha it would be a challenge 
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Yeah I’m sorry
Basically I’m pretty much allergic to air so unless I constantly dose myself on hardcore antihistamines I’m like this 
Nah, I don’t write songs anymore. All mine are already out there.
In all seriousness I always get in a right mess stringing guitars, so I’ll try this next time. Thanks.
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Eh? All over. It’s years ago now.
The album
Various videos are here:
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Can we all agree though that everyone who calls pick-ups ‘pups’ can go & do one?
Good, glad we agree
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Get a string winder with a built-in string cutter. They’re an essential tool, in my opinion.
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I have a string winder and just used to carry around a really old pair of pliers. If I’d ever seen this device I would have grabbed one.
here’s my tip (both my electrics have these tuners)
Hold the string past the tuner you will be using and on to the next tuner - and cut just past it . This gives a good amount of string. Obvs. you need to wing it a bit for the high e string
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oops Kalgeese already said what I said didn;t he
He’s right - 2x tuners is the correct length to go, not 1
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