How the Professionals Wind Strings on a Gibson or Epiphone Guitar

How to Properly String a Gibson or Epiphone Style Electric Guitar. This will show you an easy way to wind strings on your favorite Gibson or Epiphone Les Paul electric guitar. This will also work on an acoustic guitar as well. This is by far the best way I've found to wind strings on a Gibson or Epiphone LP guitar.

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This is by far the best way to string your Gibson or Epiphone-style electric guitar. This works for any Gibson or Epiphone tuners that have a hole that you feed the string through. Not only does this save time stringing your guitar it also is easy to remove the strings while still being nice and locked in place. This tip from the professionals was thanks to Joe Bonamassa's guitar tech and I thought I would share it with you.

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[intheblues]

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[thirtysauce]

I pulled this video up ready to restring my guitar with the pack of strings my dad just picked up for me... I open the pack and see a really thick string so I looked further and found that my dad had bought me bass strings

[vkfbab]

great to see I'm not the only one who has guitars with dust on them.

[Danjk]

Short, simple, to the point, not 15mins long thank you!

[rockandrolleracdc]

I’m actually in shock. I’ve played for 13 years and never used this technique. I got a Gibson SG last year and was super annoyed that the G string kept going out of tune. Anyway, I did a test run on this with my Epiphone SG (probably not played this guitar in 5 years) cleaned it up, restrung it with this method, bam! No issues with it at all, tried tuning in E standard, Eb Standard and drop C, all with absolutely no tuning stability issues. Great, I cant wait to restring my Gibson now!

[itsadoorknob]

Just restrung my acoustic like this and it worked great! This beats my previous method of winding at random and hoping for the best. 15 years of playing guitar and now I no longer dread restringing my guitars. Thank you for making this video.

[timothychristopher]

Man, I was literally about to take off the gibson deluxe tuners off my 94 nighthawk custom and replace them with klusons and came across this, now it stays in perfect tune! Saved my brokeass 100 bucks..
Thank God for youtube

[evilpandakillabzonattkoccu]

If your headstock angle is extreme, you can do this in reverse so that the final turn is on top instead of the bottom. That will give your strings a straighter angle which will also increase tuning stability (or, at least, in my experince).

[newportmike]

FINALLY!!! This is the only and best way. Forget the two Z bends and the locking loop as that only creates problems.. Stick with what works.. Thanks intheblues, this one goes to eleven.

[Blue_rd]

This is a good method. The only thing is, in your opening shot of one already done, it clearly shows all winds are under the string. Later your new one shows the winds over and under, as it should be.

[BB-piwd]

I was taught this by my guitar teacher in 1985 and never knew there was any other way. Secure as can be, never had an issue.

[cliffchilders]

This is the only correct way to string up a guitar...
Of any brand, or style!
Solid body or accoustic!
Ive been using this method for over 50 years!

[bjlatter]

I've been using this method for years and it's solid. I never did the over the top loop this way but simply kinked the string 90 then started winding first over the top then under. Same result, but your way looks better!

[stutty]

I've done it this way for about 45 years, I've NEVER had a string slip.

[casadydixon]

This fixed the issue with my G sting slipping out of tune on my Les Paul all the time. Seriously good stuff. Thank you : )

[danielrussell]

8 years later and this is still amazing🤷🏻‍♂️

[stephanguitar]

Good one, just used this on my acoustic, tunes up and stays there sooner than the previous 100 windings I had.

[jkjk]

On Gibsons, I think it's better to wind UP to top of peg. This reduces the angle of the string from nut to tuning peg. I like to add string lube/nut sauce, and would definitely want if I went with this sharp angle (winding down).
Fenders don't matter as much because the headstock doesn't create the angle like Gibsons do.

[michaelolgaalgar]

I am totally hopeless at changing strings, always let our tech do it, but I just tried this method, wow, I am astounded, excellent advice, thank you.

[mystichamster]

I've been using this since a couple of months and it works really, really great. My cheap guitars with really cheap tuners keep the intonation really good, even while recording a solo with many takes of the same part (with bendings)