Here’s a great Youtube tutorial for changing your electric guitar strings that I found today. Heaps of beginners constantly ask this question and I think this video is going to clear things up for most of you.
Learning to play the guitar and learning to maintain your guitar go hand in hand – Please do learn to maintain your guitar especially if it’s a relatively expensive one. You will enjoy playing the guitar more this way and it will have a better tone overall. Also, be sure to change your strings as soon as you start to notice some corrosion happening on the strings.
This Youtube video’s pretty hilarious but it gets the job done. He first shows viewers how to use lemon oil to clean the fretboard and also how to use tape to protect while you use steel wool to keep your frets clean and shiny. Word of warning – MAKE SURE you use the finest steel wool you can find, if not you can really damage your frets whilst cleaning. Also be sure to tape up your guitar pickup as shown in the video. The reason is because the pickups are magnatized and filing away at your frets will create fine metal shavings that will stick to your pickup and you’re going to find it very hard to remove.
You can do it if you want to, but I don’t clean my fretboard every time I change guitar strings. Only once every few string changes. There is no real need for excessive cleaning. Another reason is if you keep using lemon oil on your fretboard, you could put too much moisture into your guitar neck and cause it to warp a bit.
Good luck with changing strings and cleaning your guitar. Remember that if you have any questions about this, I am always prepared to help. Just click on the ” about me ” section and drop me a message.
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