How to Tie Your Guitar Strings: An Improved Luthier's Knot
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- This video demonstrates to do an improved 'luthier's knot' when stringing up your guitar. Luthier Daniel Heo at Xu Strings Guitar & Bass Repair explains how he developed this method and shows how he does it. It takes a bit of practice, but in the end, you'll have less string slippage, fewer string breaks and won't have sharp string ends poking gigbags and fingers.
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Cool. I use luthier's knot on the plain strings and now I can finally hide those poky ends.
Great! That's the idea.
Thank you so much! This is exactly the perfection for non locking tuners, IMHO.
You are welcome so much!
Great idea and easy to implement. I especially like that the string ends are facing down and mostly covered. I’m going to do this on every string change from now on. Thanks! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Thank you for sharing this technique. I will use this method on my next string change.
Wonderful! Let us know how it goes!
I too shall call this the “Xu Tie” 😊 Easy to remember. Like “shoe tie” .
😂 we love this! Well done!
I find this way hide string inside thanks good
We're glad you like it!
Nicely done! No more sore fingers !
This is the best way! I’m doing it like this from now on!
Excellent idea and demo thank you
Cheers!
Thank you so much. I will never forget this simple technique. First time I have not ruined a string.
You are very welcome! Stay tuned for more tips and tricks...
I have to learn this
Awesome I’m going to try this!! Thanks!
Love it, Daniel!
Great, thank you!
I don't like how the string winds down over the excess string. This can cause thinner strings to incur too much stress where it crosses over the excess string. I've had several used guitars that were wound with the string overlapping the excess like this and the B or E strings have snapped right where it overlapped the other string. One of those was an acoustic guitar and the other two were electrics. When I come around the post I go under the string and bend it over the top so that the string winds down onto the post only, not over another piece of string. You'll only do it the way shown here until you have some strings break at the overlapping point.
Another issue I see is an uneven radius on the tuning peg, especially on the thicker strings. Could make accurate tuning difficult, especially if the takeoff point is at the wrap-over.
There is a lot of controversy on these types of knots, but in thousands of string changes, never once has a string broken over the excess end. We all use our guitars live and haven't had issues with tuning or etc. It works for us, but you don't have to use it.
Cool tip 👍
Brilliant!
About time!
Excellent. I've not enjoyed the ugliness of my luthiers knots and will give this a chance
Glad you see the improvement!
Nice, that’s exactly how I’ve always done it.
On the 2nd and 3rd strings he didn’t wrap the string fully around the peg before bringing it under did he?
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where can I get the part for the drill to use on my guitar?
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dude this is genius thank u so much
Niceee!!!🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🎸🎸🎸
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Do you believe the more string you have on your peg it affects the tone of your guitar
This is something that has shown to be true on a spectrum analyzer, but isn't always audibly perceptible, depending on many other factors. But, less than two winds will always lead to tuning issues, especially on the plain strings.
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It's not improved, it's just a shortened technique. Luthiers have been using that wrap around when tying classical strings, just horizontally. This method just cuts it short & lets it hold by its own tension without knotting it. I guess that works fine. It's just as good as two or three other methods
Did he say “keep the string out of the nut slot?” I think we want the string IN the nut slot.
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You want to keep the string OUT of the nut slot while winding up; and when at tension, lower the string into the slot. Otherwise the string acts like a saw and eventually, you'll end up with low nut slots.
@@xustrings That makes sense. Great method. Thanks
@@xustrings I left another comment indicating that you didn’t wind the 2nd and 3rd posts the same as the first. After watching your video several times as to understand the process, I see that you did wind them all the same.
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If I break a string on one of my guitars I have sometimes saved the price of a new set by knotting the remaining section of the string, which I've left uncut for this eventuality. I'm not mean, just not so rich as a lot of guys on the internet.
I've only had a few tens of guitars, and never ever experienced any tuning issues while never used such ridiculous way of winding strings.... maybe that's because I never had a cheap crappy guitar???
Same here mate!!
Not necessary, and you need to ask the guitar techs what they think about the luthier's knot. They hate it because they are often difficult to remove when a string breaks. I have been playing for more than 50 years and have never seen the need for the luthiers knot - except maybe for uke's and classical guitars. I have never had a string slip if you wind it on the peg carefully.
It helps on a strat tremolo bridge.
it's too complicated to use...
It takes a little practice, but after a few guitars, it literally takes the same amount of time as just stringing it through the peg with no knot at all. Daniel can have the strings off, clean and condition the fretboard, have new strings on and stretch them three times each, all under 7 minutes.