I finally tackled putting new nylon strings on my guitar last night for the first time, I had to because it was plaging my mind, I was fearing goofing something up. I started out with the guitar on the bed on top of my wife's nice WHITE down comforter, - shortly after I had removed the base E string only, I noticed something red on the WHITE comforter, it turned out that it was a spot of blood, I hadn't realized that the wound string had poked my right ring finger about an eighth of and inch below my fingernail, I didn't dare try to get the blood out so I had to get my wife from the frontroom and confess to her what I had done, she wasn't too pleased about it but went right to work on attempting to get the blood out of the WHITE comforter, she wasn't able to get it all out, plus we found another spot too, I actually had put a band aid on my finger before I got her involved, I also found some blood on my guitar but it wiped right off, needless to say I was off to good start, my fear was coming true. I then spread an afgan throw on the dinning table and took my guitar in there, I then went back to work on installing the strings, I used Kirk's instuctions plus copying the way the original strings were tied on, I did one string at a time just going down the line from the base E to the high E, what I did different from the way my original strings were at the tuning pegs, was I used the Buster B. Jones (a great guitarist) method that I had found on youtube to eliminate all of the extra winding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98tEv7xtgkI
I snipped off the excess string on both ends with a toenail clipper and ended up with real sanitary looking job, they sound great too, so all is well except for the faded blood spots on my wifes WHITE comforter.
I hope now that I've spilled some blood over the love of my guitar that the man in charge of things helps me to become a half way decent finger picker.
I sure miss the spell check Clancy.
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