D'oh!

[Ovibos]

So I'm prepping a guitar for sale (S2 Singlecut Standard Satin I never bonded with), and I go thru all the steps. Reinstall the stock pickups. Remove little customizations like the trussrod cover, tuner buttons, and S-Lock buttons. Take off the strings, clean the fretboard, start to string it back up.

Because I'm selling it, I don't put on my regular NYXLs; I have one set of regular XLs in my string stash I put on. Working my way thru it pretty fast:

1. Cut off old string
2. String up new one
3. Tighten tuner thumbscrew
4. Tune up
5. Cut off excess string
6. Repeat

Of course, on the 2nd-to-last string (the D, because I somewhere picked up the habit of stringing from the outside in) I think I'm in the groove and go a little too fast.

I fail on the "excess" part of step 5. D'oh!

Now I'm waiting for Amazon Prime to bring me more regular XLs tomorrow so I can cannibalize a D string.

 

[Aahzz]

So I'm prepping a guitar for sale (S2 Singlecut Standard Satin I never bonded with), and I go thru all the steps. Reinstall the stock pickups. Remove little customizations like the trussrod cover, tuner buttons, and S-Lock buttons. Take off the strings, clean the fretboard, start to string it back up.

Because I'm selling it, I don't put on my regular NYXLs; I have one set of regular XLs in my string stash I put on. Working my way thru it pretty fast:

1. Cut off old string
2. String up new one
3. Tighten tuner thumbscrew
4. Tune up
5. Cut off excess string
6. Repeat

Of course, on the 2nd-to-last string (the D, because I somewhere picked up the habit of stringing from the outside in) I think I'm in the groove and go a little too fast.

I fail on the "excess" part of step 5. D'oh!

Now I'm waiting for Amazon Prime to bring me more regular XLs tomorrow so I can cannibalize a D string.

Been there, done that, dang it sucks - much mojo, man.

 

[Broseph]

Thanks for reminding me to change back my strap locks before I sell a guitar

 

[CandidPicker]

If I had a nickel for every time that happened. Wait, I've got 23 cents. And a paper clip. And a rubber band. Now I can finance that used hedge trimmer I've needed.

 

[Tone-y]

Yep. I've snipped the string side rather than the excess side too. Think I've only done it once so far. I tend to check more carefully now!

 

[Fram]

Made me smile, but only because I have been there too

 

[Boogie]

Check/measure twice, cut once. That goes thru my head more than “righty-tighty, lefty-loosey”.

 

[RickP]

Good thing it was the D string. B’oh or G’oh would’ve sucked for a thread title!

 

[Aahzz]

Thanks for reminding me to change back my strap locks before I sell a guitar

I hate it when I forget to do that! Even worse, when I sold my SE Hollowbody, I forgot to swap the lampshades back to the stock speed knobs.

 

[bodia]

Oops is right! Order a couple of extra sets!

 

[Uncle Bob]

With lockers there’s a tendency to have minimal string on the tuning peg. It’s one of the reasons I’m not fussed about lockers tbh.

Regular non-locking tuners, strung properly, never an issue.

 

[93studiolite]

I did something similar this weekend. I was changing the strings on my LP and I’m so used to longer scale length guitars and having locking tuners, that I pulled way to much back on the low E string and ended up with too many winds on the tuner. I also forgot to pull the high E string back enough and had to start all over on that one. The rest went fine, but I really messed up those first two.