How Do You Change Strings On An Electric Guitar?
• Check to see if you have a floating bridge. If you do, jam it with something: • Bend the bridge up (like you’re doing a dive on the guitar) and put something between the guitar body and bridge. • Your tremolo bar will work for this, but a ruler is best. • Loosen the strings by down-tuning. Turn the tuning machine or peg to loosen each string enough to be able to grab the string from the center. • Once they’re loose enough to touch the fret board, cut or pull the strings off the post. You can also simply snip off the strings using wire cutters; it won’t hurt the guitar.[1] • Remove the strings from the bridge. • Go on a floating bridge and pull the strings out of the back of the bridge. • On a regular bridge (like a Fender Strat or any other string-through guitar) just pull the strings out of the back of the guitar’s body. • If you have a wrap-around bridge, you will be able to pull them out of the underside of the bridge. • Replace the strings. Just slide them in where you removed th
