30 minutes to change strings on one Stringmaster neck

David DeLoach · Post by **David DeLoach** » 19 Apr 2020 8:21 am

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!

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 19 Apr 2020 11:18 am

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

Rookie speed.

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.

Ian Rae · Post by **Ian Rae** » 19 Apr 2020 11:40 am

I don't see any virtue in speed except in an emergency.
The current emergency is giving us more time, not less....

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 19 Apr 2020 12:08 pm

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

David DeLoach · Post by **David DeLoach** » 19 Apr 2020 12:54 pm

Bill McCloskey wrote:
Rookie speed.

You get good with practice.

Ah, that's what I suspected!

Greg Forsyth · Post by **Greg Forsyth** » 19 Apr 2020 1:04 pm

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 · Post by **David DeLoach** » 19 Apr 2020 2:10 pm

Greg Forsyth wrote: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

If I tried that I see me falling over the steel, knocking it off the stage and landing on the dance floor laying there until the ambulance showed up to get me.

Gene Tani · Post by **Gene Tani** » 19 Apr 2020 4:34 pm

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 · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 20 Apr 2020 7:37 am

You need one of these:

Tim Whitlock · Post by **Tim Whitlock** » 20 Apr 2020 7:57 am

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

Joe Rouse · Post by **Joe Rouse** » 20 Apr 2020 8:01 am

What Erv wrote.....jr

Jeff Mead · Post by **Jeff Mead** » 20 Apr 2020 8:05 am

Greg Forsyth wrote: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

In this clip, Don Pawlak not only continues to do fills while changing a string - he takes a solo too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPienXdvXJ0

Mike Harris · Post by **Mike Harris** » 20 Apr 2020 3:59 pm

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 · Post by **Tim Whitlock** » 21 Apr 2020 8:16 am

Jeff Mead wrote:
Greg Forsyth wrote: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
In this clip, Don Pawlak not only continues to do fills while changing a string - he takes a solo too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPienXdvXJ0

Now that's impressive!

Steve Marinak · Post by **Steve Marinak** » 21 Apr 2020 12:56 pm

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.

Gene Tani · Post by **Gene Tani** » 21 Apr 2020 1:55 pm

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

Brian Evans · Post by **Brian Evans** » 22 Apr 2020 8:53 am

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.

Gene Tani · Post by **Gene Tani** » 23 Apr 2020 4:10 pm

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/thre ... g-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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