hfxrock
March 14th, 2007, 12:44 PM
Hello everyone. I have an Epiphone G400, Ebony :) I wanted to get the GHS/Zakk Wilde Boomers but after talking with the manager of the store I bought my guitar and he says with those string and my guitar you would have to modify the nuts and a few other things to get the proper play.
I trust him and believe him, so he recommended the Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 guage strings, so I bought 3 sets :) I am hoping I get better sustain and tonage from the stock strings as I am prodominately a Metal player but I do like playing stuff my wife listens to.
To get to the point here. I have read so many How-To restring your guitar documents on the web and I find theres conflicting methods. In one method they want you change one string at a time because of the stress the strings when tuned on the neck are huge. This makes ALOT of sense but cleaning would be a PITA! The other method was to remove all strings, is this ok? in both methods they want you to put the string through the hole on the neck vertically, bring the string around and under, twist to 90 degrees then wind.
Slack is a tough thing to guess too, some say 1 fret, some say 2 and some say 3 frets. Whats the general rule of thumb you guys/girls use? I do ALOT of bending, ALOT of vibrato so my guitar NEEDS to be in tune and stay in tune while I play.
Thanks, you guys are great help here.
Jeff
I trust him and believe him, so he recommended the Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 guage strings, so I bought 3 sets :) I am hoping I get better sustain and tonage from the stock strings as I am prodominately a Metal player but I do like playing stuff my wife listens to.
To get to the point here. I have read so many How-To restring your guitar documents on the web and I find theres conflicting methods. In one method they want you change one string at a time because of the stress the strings when tuned on the neck are huge. This makes ALOT of sense but cleaning would be a PITA! The other method was to remove all strings, is this ok? in both methods they want you to put the string through the hole on the neck vertically, bring the string around and under, twist to 90 degrees then wind.
Slack is a tough thing to guess too, some say 1 fret, some say 2 and some say 3 frets. Whats the general rule of thumb you guys/girls use? I do ALOT of bending, ALOT of vibrato so my guitar NEEDS to be in tune and stay in tune while I play.
Thanks, you guys are great help here.
Jeff