String Fix
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I assume they come with standards which is 10 - 46 I believe. If it came in drop d it might have been a heavier set. Anyway I would recommend changing all strings 
If you haven't restrung a guitar with floyd rose before you might want to look into how to do it before changing, to avoid trouble. We had some really helpful threads on this.
If you haven't restrung a guitar with floyd rose before you might want to look into how to do it before changing, to avoid trouble. We had some really helpful threads on this.
No I haven’t restrung anything with a Floyd Rose before. I’ll look into it. Thanks for your advice!I assume they come with standards which is 10 - 46 I believe. If it came in drop d it might have been a heavier set. Anyway I would recommend changing all strings
If you haven't restrung a guitar with floyd rose before you might want to look into how to do it before changing, to avoid trouble. We had some really helpful threads on this.
Some great advice in this commentI assume they come with standards which is 10 - 46 I believe. If it came in drop d it might have been a heavier set. Anyway I would recommend changing all strings
If you haven't restrung a guitar with floyd rose before you might want to look into how to do it before changing, to avoid trouble. We had some really helpful threads on this.
Can't go wrong with some ernie ball skinny top heavy bottom 10-52! (My guitar almost always stays in dropped D tuning) They are super tough! I have a floyd rose myself and they rarely broke on me even when doing some obnoxious tremolo stuff. And I really liked how quickly they "stretched" to hold their tune after you finished re-stringing. It can get quite frustrating tuning your guitar 10-15 times with a floyd while breaking the strings in!
I just switched to the ernie ball Paradigm 10-52 and LOVE them, however i spent half a day breaking them in!
I just switched to the ernie ball Paradigm 10-52 and LOVE them, however i spent half a day breaking them in!
Would the sound be different using the Ernie Ball Skinny Top Heavy compared to Ernie Ball Slinky?
I think that's more of a preference thing. I think you say that thicker strings sound a bit darker but I don't really think too much that you would really hear it. The biggest difference would be the thickness and also the hardness. Heavy bottoms will be thighter than slinkies so the top three strings will be a little harder to play, cause they have more tension. Not too much though, I use them for drop d and it works for me. I used to use them for drop c as well. And then of course, thicker strings will be more durable if you abuse them with a floyd
I think that's more of a preference thing. I think you say that thicker strings sound a bit darker but I don't really think too much that you would really hear it. The biggest difference would be the thickness and also the hardness. Heavy bottoms will be thighter than slinkies so the top three strings will be a little harder to play, cause they have more tension. Not too much though, I use them for drop d and it works for me. I used to use them for drop c as well. And then of course, thicker strings will be more durable if you abuse them with a floyd
Haha, if you say that those are a bit tougher to play with, then I'll go grab the Ernie Ball Slinky for it!
You have to use the allen wrench to loosen the screws holding the little square blocks squeezing the strings.
Then take the time to understand what you're fiddling with:
The long silver screws at the bottom. The black ones are your fine-tuners, for when a string is slightly out of tune and the nut is locked. If you look at one of the silver screws, it goes through the gold back plate and into the gold saddle where it presses the black block into the string and compresses it against the front of the gold saddle.
Loosen one of the silver screws with one of the allen wrenches that came with the guitar (find the one that fits PERFECTLY). The black block WILL fall out if the guitar is not flat on a table or other surface, and they're a BEAR to find on carpeting, so DON'T LET THAT HAPPEN.
The short silver screws are for intonation and you should NEVER touch them until you know what you're doing with them. The two gold pivot screws that go into the body are for adjusting the bridge height overall, and you should also not touch these unless you have a specific reason you understand.
Loosen one of the silver screws with one of the allen wrenches that came with the guitar (find the one that fits PERFECTLY). The black block WILL fall out if the guitar is not flat on a table or other surface, and they're a BEAR to find on carpeting, so DON'T LET THAT HAPPEN.
The short silver screws are for intonation and you should NEVER touch them until you know what you're doing with them. The two gold pivot screws that go into the body are for adjusting the bridge height overall, and you should also not touch these unless you have a specific reason you understand.
So I've gotten a little frustrated trying to attempt the string change myself. When the E string snapped, it was easy to remove the string by pulling on it. When I wire cut the remaining strings, the entire bridge collapsed into the cavity. Obviously, a bad idea! The steep slope made it difficult to unscrew the silver screws. And I've realized that the fine tuner block on the E string was also missing. Since I don't really have the patience to change them myself at the moment, so I just had someone at Guitar Center restring it for me.
However, thank you for your video! I wish I've gotten to it before I attempted the restring process. I will definitely follow it as a reference next time, with better strings.
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