How To Restring A Guitar

How to restring your classical guitar. Put the string though the bridge, and then leave a little extra at the end there so you can loop it on itself to tie it off. So, by pulling that now, it's held in place, because I've done two loops across the back.

Then we go up to the tuning head, put it through the hole in the tuning head. Before you put your strings on, you must ensure that you've got reasonable eyesight. Otherwise you'll end up doing what I've done, which is thinking you put it through the hole, and actually you haven't.

You waste considerable time doing that. So, now, we have the string through the hole, yes. We'll now wind this on.

It'll go in the right direction, like so. So I'm going to loop this underneath now, so the string is being wound tighter, being pulled on itself. Now, we're in business.

So, the string's in tune now, but when you put new strings on, there's a lot of give in them. Now, what you'll find is you'll tune your strings up and you've got everything perfectly right. The first couple of strums or picking you play, you find that the thing's going out of tune and not sounding right, and this could go on for months.

The reason is there's so much leeway in the strings, you have to stretch it all out as soon as you put them on. And that's how you restring a classical guitar! .