so this week I'm gonna do something a little bit different
you remember these super cheap but also colorful guitar strings that I got in
the mailbag on Monday let's put them on my super cheap guitar... that's not gonna
work out okay let me go find a better place to do this um no that's not gonna
work out I know how about a conveniently cleared in a well-lit area on the pool
table that'll do nicely okay here we go so first this is the strings that are on
the guitar now they've been on there for way longer than any guitar strings
should be on a guitar they are 11 to 50 mm illah meter size much more that you
can see that or not it's very close the low e-string is 1.3 2 millimeters in mic
cheap set it's 1.29 the high string ie is put to 8 millimeters which is the
same so that's close enough it's the first thing obviously you have to do
when you're changing stands on a guitar you still take the old ones off I should
have prepared and a little cranky tool but whatever this is picking up in
this guitar is and I called it peaked at Harvard really isn't he needed a little
bit of work had to replace the tuning machines the while I was working on the
bridge actually fell off you can sort of see ghost of where the old bridge was so
I went and bought a cheap replacement bridge and he cheap source of guitar
parts I'm no longer exists in my city
he blew that on me what else was wrong with this thing well
there was a crack in the inner gate right there where they glued up and look
at that it was just disgusting made especially and you don't want to clean
oh yeah and I put stretch strap button on the heel there too it would have
wanted to use the string around the peg I don't like that it's too hippie
lifestyle
so that's the screen stop saying now they're just a matter of pulling the
bridge pins oh please bridge pins come up so he's the preacher
was originally on it was kind of look like a nylon string guitar since I
bought brief but this was always designed as a steel string guitar hey
there's the old ones those I'll go into my supplies you didn't in case I need
some and they stick pokey where or something marble with yes general first
keep speeding and then all you got to do is reverse the process doesn't matter a
really creature so you started out I'm gonna study heavy stone work my way back
so I'm just put me down in there no these breach pins not sure that you
can see there's a slot down one side to them so the spring basically lies in
that slot and holds up against the bottom of the wood underneath the
underneath the bridge block inside the guitar that's all you gonna do is just
take it down in there do sit down if it's pulling pin up that means it's and
catching on the bottom the pins would give it a little bit of a bin loads away
anymore just watching them not and typically you don't want to rake tape
there want a couple of wraps around it so I'm in that backward spin this back
up no kinks of other polls now there's I don't mean that our discussion but how
this should be done I like to have the first wrap go underneath the tail like
that and then in subsequent wraps go over that's reasonable so I got a full
turn around there these strings are little bit short or help I'm gonna go
key here what's the next heaviest one
any of you who actually played guitar actually know how to do this I'm sure
you may be finding fault with my technique regular viewers you also know
that I'm willing to accept constructive criticism now in the comments mmm
probably not gonna change my ways now then Spanx are on there next to team
piggies one we keep little tart tunas if you have one or you could use a nap no
I'm not sure how well this one's going to work we'll see
that's a little shirt that's okay
no that was the strangest moving slow
wait no you got fresh strings on you're gonna have to retune multiple times
that's what note as the whole geometry that the powers change
always stood up into a nope
hey that's close enough it's going flat note as I put it as a spiritualist rings
you actually give the strings a bit of a bit of a wheeling on and you know why
I'm nobody
and he's away
close enough anyways so now the last thing you want to do is trim these guys
off you know poke somebody Oh as I hoped and so you don't look like a complete
amateur for that just any pair of reasonable wire cutters that you don't
care about or damage on cuz these are steel strings and these things are
designed for cutting copper steel you don't use your pair of 0 & 2 knit backs
or whatever hey there we go same country sounds are in this because it's not
staying in tune keep I'm going to spend some more time tuning it and letting it
settle and then we'll listen to it okay I've been messing around with this thing
for a little while now
it seems to be holding a student for ul
it's not bad
yeah that's reasonable like that
and repeat under times but you know what this as fun as this is um should I get
my spunk guitarist in here now this isn't about playing this is about the
strings and they feel fairly soft on the left hand here okay like a coated string
almost know that they're up to tune and they're going a little flat that's a
little flat but they're mostly holding the chin
yeah they're pretty close so for cheap strings and they're not as bright as I
would like them to be
we're not gonna stop a little bit brain but part of that is this guitar - I mean
it's just me - plywood it's literally a $12 pawn shop guitar there's nothing
magical about it but I can't forget her
it'll do just nicely and for what were these less than two bucks for the set of
strings and their whoo so colorful I think it's a win thanks for watching I
appreciate you taking your time to put up with me like this
anything you've got to say as always down in the comments and I will talk to
you later