Question About First Time Re-Stringing My Excel
Posted: 22 Dec 2020 6:08 am
Hello!
I'm about a month and a half into playing steel guitar and I'm in love. In early November I picked up an Excel S12 from here on the forum that is tuned to extended E9. I've been going deep and clocking my hours with the Franklin e9th basics course and am really happy with my progress and the level of instruction there.
Last night I was playing around with my 1st string F# knee raise and I broke my first string.
I'm hoping to dive in today to get it all restrung. I'm a little intimidated but it doesn't look too bad. I have some singles and two packs of Ernie Ball Nickel Wound Steel strings.
I have read through the excel instructions but my guitar is a little different which can be found here:
https://www.fuzzypsg.com/int/product.html
Before jumping in I had a question and also wondered if anyone had any advice on stringing up an excel. I'm including pics.
On the changer side you'll notice that there seems to be 4 little hex pieces missing. Am I onto something here or is this not a big deal? I've highlighted them in the pics.
What do the top and bottom hex inserts do on my steel?
Thanks all, and Happy Holidays.
I'm about a month and a half into playing steel guitar and I'm in love. In early November I picked up an Excel S12 from here on the forum that is tuned to extended E9. I've been going deep and clocking my hours with the Franklin e9th basics course and am really happy with my progress and the level of instruction there.
Last night I was playing around with my 1st string F# knee raise and I broke my first string.
I'm hoping to dive in today to get it all restrung. I'm a little intimidated but it doesn't look too bad. I have some singles and two packs of Ernie Ball Nickel Wound Steel strings.
I have read through the excel instructions but my guitar is a little different which can be found here:
https://www.fuzzypsg.com/int/product.html
Before jumping in I had a question and also wondered if anyone had any advice on stringing up an excel. I'm including pics.
On the changer side you'll notice that there seems to be 4 little hex pieces missing. Am I onto something here or is this not a big deal? I've highlighted them in the pics.
What do the top and bottom hex inserts do on my steel?
Thanks all, and Happy Holidays.