How to Restring a Rickenbacker 330
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- Опубліковано 31 жов 2016
- Rickenbackers are challenging guitars to restring, due to their floating bridge and tailpiece. Here's a step by step tutorial for how to remove and restring a Rickenbacker 330 guitar with GHS strings, by Miss Alex White of White Mystery.
Hey! I was just looking up how to restring this 1965 Rickenbacker and I recognized that I met you in Japan in 2015. Nice to see you! Hope you’re feeling great!
So happy there's a video on yt on how to Restring a ric nice easy video to understand
That’s a great video I alway have a struggle when re stringing will try your methods next time looks simple
Thanks Alex. I've had my 330 for years and not played it much as I have an SG, 2 telecasters, a Strat, an Aria Stage 3 KPI, an ES 335, a Washburn acoustic and a Gibson Firebird X (I know everyone hates it but its actually a really nice guitar). First time changing the string s and everything fell off. Really helpful. Thanks again. Simon
Me too Simon. I was tightening and I looked down at tailpiece and string fell down, and out of groove. I hate that design.
After you get the string on the tail piece put a capo on it at the B or A point, then do the rest, makes the whole process easy.
I was JUST about to say, I only use my capo for string changes and Fender truss rod adjustments at the heel!
Great idea John. I thought about that....too late. But Im so irritated with the restring i did, that im gonna get out a new set. I was using some expensive flatwounds too. Yes capo seems like a good idea.
My 1963 factory instruction sheet says NEVER take all the strings off, but replace each string ONE AT A TIME!. This is to insure you don't void the warranty by possible damage to the neck. They use the old Harmony double rod system which is strong enough to separate the fingerboard from the neck unless you keep a certain amount of tension. I confirmed this with John Hall at Rickenbacker. Remember, ONE STRING AT A TIME!
Very helpful tips!!
One thing I find helpful is removing the chrome bridge cover. Two screws and easy. Removing does not affect any bridge setting like string height or intonation. It's just a cover. I keep mine off as that gives me greater access while strumming and also gives me the ability to mute with my palm is needed.
I never put the string directly into the tuner hole. I put a full wrap around the tuner post then into the hole. Never had a slippage or tuning problem or string break in years.
Just watched to the end. Really good tips. Thanks. If you want to hear how bad I was in the 80's search for Lonesome Corsicans on Spotify, etc. I am playnig the SG and the Tele (1979) and singing. Don't expect much. :)
Thanks so much! : )
Hi, I had an 70s-80S Mapleglow 360-12. No toaster tops but nice old-time-ey Kluson machines not Schallars. Not as smooth as some more modern-style machines but I liked them. Except for the reissues I haven't seen them again, not on a modern Ric
nice video, thanks! I play a 360, it's a bit of a pig to string up compared to the tele I used to play!
Try a 12-String....ARRGHHH! :(
Hi Alex!!!
The whole reason I'm watching this demonstration is to find out how to thread the strings thru the floating tail piece with the Rick logo on it. Guess you don't go thru the bottom first. You seemed to have inserted it from the top of the floating tailpiece. I was trying to go in from the bottom. Rickenbacker should provide a written step-by-step guide on with this unusual method of locking the end of the string into the tailpiece.
Hi, Great video. Very helpful. Would you please post a link to the leatherman tool? Thank you.
Kinda expensive, but very handy: www.leatherman.com/wave-10.html?dwvar_10_color=10&cgid=everydaycarry#start=1
what strings are you putting on flatwound or round wound gauges on the Rick
what year is your guitar?
Hi. which year is your 330? I Been trying to find toaster pickups for mine!. Where did you got those? thanks
Hey! I bought it new in 2001, and those were stock toasters.
Nice guitar! thanks for your answer!
Try Pick of the Ricks in Lindenwold NJ for toasters. Easy Google search.
@@whitemysteryband There's even a 12 string version and it's strung backwards meaning the lower octave strings are on the bass side and the higher octave strings are on the treble side. Daddario NYXL strings will be more flexible when playing metal, the 9 gauge strings will save tension.
I got mine stock in 2010 or thereabout. Mine had toasters.
I don’t own a Ric but I’ve always wondered how the hell you string that.
I just watched the part where she put the bead in completely dumbfounded. It’s like going to Disney World and believing in magic again.
She is doing this replacing one string while the others are still present. I had to string mine starting with no string and it was the hardest most miserable experience that I ever had stringing a guitar and I’ve done it thousands of times on my other guitars.
I just got a rickenbacker and this is my first time restringing it, so this video is really helpful! That strange saddle is pretty daunting. Should you only do one string at a time, or can you take them all off and then replace them all at once? Thanks!
I do one at a time to keep the tension in the neck!
Many people do the same. I don't on any of my other (Fender & Gibson) guitars, but I think I will when I re string my Rick . Despite two truss rods ,I hear some tales of temperamental Rick necks ! Great video , I was wondering how the ball ends stay in the tail piece ,now I know ! Thank you Alex :-)
Brennan Sullivan I take off the strings all at once and then put one in at a time and tune it up
Hey all, to maintain the neck tension, I re-string one at a time in this order: 6 - 1 - 5 - 2 - 4 - 3
@@thomaspatrickparker6648 Youre a better man than I am. I did that too. It was a GD nighmare
i'm not clear. stringing this is a freaking nightmare! Help!!!!!!
Turn the volume on, dude!
DDid you remove all of your strings like I did!! MIghtmare. I need tgree hands. im no rookie. I strated playing in 65. I just never restrung this rick. I dont play it that much. my toggle switch crapped out on me too. They are overrated if you ask me. I wish I had bought a Squier.I know I know the Rick is beautuful. All my life I wanted one. I could never afford it. I had to buy at pawn shops.
You are using your head. Suppose you aare hardheaded like e, I wanted to clean my guitar. So I took all of my strings off. YES ALL OF THEM> The tailpiece fell on the floor. I had a nice set of flatwonds and i ended up breaking two of them. Ive never done that. Ive been playing for 50 years. I know how to change strings. But that easy tailpiece is a nighmare. I would slide the string in and it would drop down and out of the slot. The brdge fell off and I couldnt remember how that wennt. (I guess I could have looked at the grooves) I needed three hands to do this job. I finally got it strung, with two alien strings. im just gonna change the whole thing. I hate to, but how do you get that string to stay in the "R" tailpeice?
Ernie ball 10's are too thick for the bottom e slot.
Not true. I have run ..011 - .052 on my 330 and they worked well.
@@daveparsley6849 I exclusively use GHS 11 gauge strings on this Ric!
Why not use a Set of 8 Gauge Strings?
Rics sound and play better with a little heavier gauge. Seem to stay in tune better with heavier gauges. There is little break angle at the bridge or headstock. Light stings feel like rubber bands on them.
@@davidcudlip6587 Usually their scale length is 25.5 & 8s would minimize brekage
@@RockStarOscarStern634 But they sound and play horrible with thin strings. In fact most players end up going the other way and end up with heavier strings then they have on other guitars. They ship them out with a compressed wrap 10-42 set. The individual string gauges are kind of wonky compared to a regular set of .010 gauge strings. Hard to get the classic Ric jangle with a thinner set.
@@davidcudlip6587 They're Flatwound Strings, & they intonate better. I think the scale length is slightly longer or shorter
You have to stop calling the tail piece the saddle. They are two completely different parts.
I love Rickenbacker but I hate 24 fret guitars. I wish they made 21 fret 330’s.......
Total Babe
Removing that useless bridge cover makes re-stringing and playing a lot easier.
You almost look like John Lennon’s Mother, Julia.