My first guitar string snapped and it launched a small circular pin somewhere. I looked up how to restring guitar strings and other peoples stringboard look different than how mine is set up. the pins I have aren’t long and straight they are small circular things fitted into a small hole in the wood. What are these kinds of pins called? Can I upgrade to standard guitar pins?
Those pins come on the end of guitar strings, so there’s no need to replace it. When you get new strings, you’ll basically just slide the unfinished end through the hole there and then pull it through until the pin catches.
I don’t think you have pins at all. It looks like you just pull the string through the hole. That ‘pin’ is just the end of the string. Pull a new string through and the bead will just stop there.
If you haven’t changed strings before, YouTube it. It’s not difficult, but it’s easy to break one by going an octave to high and what not.
Those aren’t pins at all. Those are the “balls” on the end of the strings. Get new strings, and just feed the through that hole in the bridge, then up to the tuning peg.
A good shop would probably be willing to show you how to string it if you buy the strings there.
This is really cool to see. This is a question that many players might give the newbie some grief over, but y’all are Johnny-On-The-Spot with helpful, nonjudgmental responses.
Four of them within 10 minutes of this post. This is some solid neighborly business right here.
Y’all are good people!
I remember starting basically everything I’ve ever done in my life with just the dumbest questions you could possibly ask. I think it’s important to remember those times and take it easy on new folks. No one ever progresses past that point if they get shot down the second they ask their first question.
