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6/30/2008 1:56:35 AM
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Will the Guitar Center Employees Restring my guitar?
I was covering Beethoven's C***, by Serj Tankian, and my 6th String "Popped", so will they restring it for me?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Recon Number 54 I considered restringing my instruments to be a part of my responsibility in properly maintaining them. Some repairs/checks I would leave for luthiers, but restringing is something that is simple enough that it can easily be done by the player. If you are going to do it yourself though, remove, replace, stretch and retune each string separately and in sequence. Don't remove all six, four, 12, (whatever) all at once. First off it will destress the neck and bridge when the tension is removed and then reapplied. Secondly, as all of the strings and the guitar itself is re-tensioned, it will take longer for the strings to "settle in" and tune properly.[/quote] Re-stringing yourself is fine and all, but not all of us have a strobe tuner and are able to set intonation. Plus if you have some kind of locking nut or tremolo set up it is a major pain in the ass. I'd rather pay the dude at Alamo Music Center 17.50 to do it for me.
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I considered restringing my instruments to be a part of my responsibility in properly maintaining them. Some repairs/checks I would leave for luthiers, but restringing is something that is simple enough that it can easily be done by the player. If you are going to do it yourself though, remove, replace, stretch and retune each string separately and in sequence. Don't remove all six, four, 12, (whatever) all at once. First off it will destress the neck and bridge when the tension is removed and then reapplied. Secondly, as all of the strings and the guitar itself is re-tensioned, it will take longer for the strings to "settle in" and tune properly.
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yes GC does... 20 or 30 bucks though :/
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HA! My local music store does it for FREEEEEE!!!
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Master Skipper Was it fun?[/quote] Dude speaking of fun, I've been meaning to tell you. We were practicing about two weeks ago and I had just got my Kramer back from getting a restring, truss rod adjustment and intonation tuned and the nut broke and me E string straight up -blam!- slapped my wrist. Needless to say I was pissed and now my guitar is BACK in the shop. I'm still waiting for them to call me to pick it up.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ID Phoenix [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Sparda sniper I was covering Beethoven's C***, by Serj Tankian, and my 6th String "Popped", so will they restring it for me?[/quote] Not for free. Most guitar stores will restring any guitar. It's usually around 20 bucks plus cost of strings. They restring and tune it.[/quote] Thanks, I wasn't expecting it to be free, but its just like 30 dollars. [Edited on 06.29.2008 6:03 PM PDT]
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Was it fun?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Sparda sniper I was covering Beethoven's C***, by Serj Tankian, and my 6th String "Popped", so will they restring it for me?[/quote] Not for free. Most guitar stores will restring any guitar. It's usually around 20 bucks plus cost of strings. They restring and tune it.
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I'm going to buy new strings there, and want to get it over with.
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Yeah. They're sort of payed to do that.
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Why cant you do it yourself?
