Hi all -
I am a little sheepish about posting this, as I fear the issue may be the dreaded user error. But I am having a problem with restringing a uke.
I got a solid body uke in China this summer. It's a lot of fun, but I decided to try it with some different strings. So I unstrung it and started to put the new strings on. When I got to the E, it was, at first, slipping at the bridge (the nut is one where the string passes over the bridge and then comes out and heads up the neck, like here)
but then I looped it over a few times and it held. I was tuning it up and it kept slipping in the tuner. Finally, it started to get close to the pitch and the string just snapped.
I have tried it twice more, with the same results.
Is it just me? Should I try to take the string to wind counter clockwise (I have been doing it clockwise, as it was before) Or has it just been bad luck, or the uke itself?
Thanks in advance.
I am a little sheepish about posting this, as I fear the issue may be the dreaded user error. But I am having a problem with restringing a uke.
I got a solid body uke in China this summer. It's a lot of fun, but I decided to try it with some different strings. So I unstrung it and started to put the new strings on. When I got to the E, it was, at first, slipping at the bridge (the nut is one where the string passes over the bridge and then comes out and heads up the neck, like here)
but then I looped it over a few times and it held. I was tuning it up and it kept slipping in the tuner. Finally, it started to get close to the pitch and the string just snapped.
I have tried it twice more, with the same results.
Is it just me? Should I try to take the string to wind counter clockwise (I have been doing it clockwise, as it was before) Or has it just been bad luck, or the uke itself?
Thanks in advance.
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