I just don't like changing guitar strings.

xscaramanga

Someone showed me ICBM's method at IGF years ago, and I sometimes try it. A problem I have it that, especially with the wound string, I find it very hard to get that loop back around tight to the capstan. There's usually a small gap. It doesn't look tidy, which annoys me, and I suspect it makes the tuning less stable. 

Dave_Vader

It's an excellent method, until I try to use it on the sparkly tanglewood in my avatar.

Which has both split head tuners, and a fake bigsby.

Combine that with 4 cats and a dog trying to help me and it can take all fucking night just to get one string to stay on.

Dave_Vader

Just to add, I used it on a crappy 96 Taiwanese strat copy with the original trem (and a lot of WD40) last week, and did divebombs all night at a gig without any tuning problems (the top E popped out of the nut 3 times, but that was not the stringing method's fault)

LastMantra

I stick it in the hole, put the end over and under (so it tightens on to itself) then tune. Really quick and easy. Never had any problems. 

Rocker

Just finished changing the strings on my Anderson.  It has Anderson branded locking tuners [old style] and it is a right PITA removing the old strings and fitting the new ones.  To do it the 'right' way, you need three hands - one to pull the string tight and hold it that way, another to turn the tuner knob and the third to operate the screwdriver to allow the tuner knob to lock the string.  Next time I will get a guitar tech in Dublin to do it for me.

The process is so frustrating that I will email Tom Anderson to see if the newer locking tuners are any easier to operate.  If they are, I will seriously consider changing to the newer locking tuners.  Life is too short to fuck around with fiddly guitar re-stringing.

thegummy

Rocker said:

Just finished changing the strings on my Anderson.  It has Anderson branded locking tuners [old style] and it is a right PITA removing the old strings and fitting the new ones.  To do it the 'right' way, you need three hands - one to pull the string tight and hold it that way, another to turn the tuner knob and the third to operate the screwdriver to allow the tuner knob to lock the string.  Next time I will get a guitar tech in Dublin to do it for me.

The process is so frustrating that I will email Tom Anderson to see if the newer locking tuners are any easier to operate.  If they are, I will seriously consider changing to the newer locking tuners.  Life is too short to fuck around with fiddly guitar re-stringing.

Locking tuners from other brands are much easier - that's the benefit, easy string changing.