YOU will BREAK your GUITAR! - Cutting Tensioned Strings
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- Опубліковано 30 гру 2022
- Let's be real here, there are a lot of guitar myths out there and at some point if i come across a couple others out in the wild, I will cover them but damn, this triggered me.
I was doing procrastination on instagram and stumbled upon a regular string change video. Some people actually debated over cutting tensioned strings. Will it break the neck? Does it affect the truss rod? Will it cause a twisted neck?
The answer is no. Nothing will happen. Necks are built from very strong woods and to support it, there is a form of truss rod in there. Your neck might set over time without strings on it, but thats about it. The sudden decrease in tension will harm absolutely nothing.
A floyd rose does exactly that like cutting all strings at once and if that were true, my and other guitars would have severe damages from using it. Also there is no reason not to remove all the strings while restringing, there wont be any damage to your neck or any other part of your guitar.
The plus you get is that you can actually clean your filth on the fretboard.
The only reason not to cut tensioned strings would be that you might poke your eye out.
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Cutting a fully tensioned string is honestly more of a danger to yourself than to the guitar. Those things can fling at you pretty fast.
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I've been cutting the strings off all my life. Never a problem.
To be fair, a floating bridge changes tension quite a bit slower that the instant release of pressure that is cutting your strings. But this should have no effect on your neck. Take when you break a string for example, the neck is made to handle that.
I do detune the instrument before cutting strings, but changing them one by one is kinda stupid, how am I supposed to do any conservation with strings on? Maybe I should ask 2 people to hold the neck tense while the strings are off?
I would say it would possibly be "bad" for low quality tuners on cheap guitars because it might induce vibrations and axial stress that slowly eat away at the wood around the bolt or pin or screw, or whatever else is holding the tuner to the headstock.
This would actually something nice to test!
His might be a valid concern.
lol "Have you ever thought about what a fucking floyd rose does?" *shredding montage*
Guitar players love their myths. I only loosen strings before cutting so they don't go flying around. I cut thicc bass strings all the time.
And let me guess ... They didn't break yet. 💜
I change my strings one at a time. Not out of superstition or anything like that. I just had to learn to do it that way because the first guitar I bought had a Floyd Rose and for years, it was my only guitar.
good point!
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Floyd Rose is more gradual rather than a snap though. A snap can create a pressure point more suddenly and harder. There should be a scientific experiment with the scientific method using more or less identical instruments to see what is really correct. The thing is though some guitars are made with much better wood than others
I guess a scientific approach would be interesting. I'm digging into it right now due to a funny instruction on Ibanez guitars. Still waiting for answers.
There's a 'but' still. Floyd rose decreases and increases tension on all six strings (or more) at once.
Also you can let go of them and the springs will immediately pull them back. Also imo putting tension on strings would have a more effect rather than decreasing tension. So pull ups with the floyd rose should be on theory more harmful to a neck.
I don't think that a snap of a string causes any harm, also snapping one at a time is even less of a stress, then eg cutting them all at once. But still. I don't think this should be harmful on a neck either since you're releasing stress, not adding.
Still, there's a truss rod that usually puts stress in the opposite direction too, so in that case the truss rod still puts tension on the neck, after releasing the stress.
Probably one of those topics where you can argue in both directions endlessly until somebody with proper technology, testing and money can solve this case.
For a mortal human being like me, I'm definitely not able to completely solve this question since i wouldn't even know how to gather this data or even measure outcomes correctly without misinterpreting variables like stress of the truss rod, wood density, material, stress of the strings and so on.
Wood might be a factor. But i can't verify it. Might be that even more factors here might be interesting like humidity of the wood, type, density and so on.
But in the end, i don't think any of this matters. But I'm open to change my mind if I'm confronted with evidence.
Thank you so much for your time to write this comment, i really appreciate it! 💜
I would say on a bolt on or neck through construction it's not really an issue. On a Les Paul style set neck, especially something vintage, it can't hurt to change one at a time. Cutting them all at once serves no practical purpose. I save my strings for project guitars that might need just one or two. Why cut them up anyhow.
It won't hurt to change them one at a time, but then again you're not able to clean the whole fretboard.
Also set in necks are really stable.
Have you ever seen how much force you need to dislocate a set neck from a body?
There are a couple videos from luthiers out there that take a set neck off a guitar because the neck was damaged or twisted and they want to replace it but keep and make use of the body.
They literally have to jump on the neck joint. And usually it's not the glue that breaks, but the wood. After that they can rout the neck joint again and glue a new neck into the body.
For sure, changing one string at a time won't hurt, but i see no practical reason.
Saving used strings is something I've never understood, since they are already a bit worn.
Also me personally i don't change a string at a time but rather a whole set. Also to replace only one string because it's broken, you can go to the big T and order the cheapest strings for like 1,50 bucks, they don't sound great or feel great but for replacements in a hurry like playing live and you don't want to tear a new pack apart, this works absolutely fine.
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Couldt have sayed it better my self dude...
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What causes a neck to twist is trying to adjust the rod and not knowing how to 95% of the time
Usually you can't fix a twisted neck by adjusting the truss rod, the truss rod is only capable of fixing beck dives and bends. The only thing you can try is relief the tension of the truss rod and strings and hope that the neck reverses the twist.
Otherwise there is only a very complicated way of fixing a twisted neck, which would be getting the fretboard off the neck and then literally (wet) iron the neck and un-twist it manually. Which is a hassle and nothing i would recommend in general hence there is no guarantee this works.
Even if you fix the twist, it might occur again and usually twists will get worse over time rather than better.
The cause for a twisted neck is usually fluctuating temperatures and humidity, if you search for a "reason" to know what you could've done to prevent it.
From experience i can tell that usually it is just something that happens if you cought a guitar with 'bad wood', even if you stored it correctly, it will twist.
So yeah. Happens and usually the effort to fix this is not worth it.
You have a point and I agree but in my Ibanez maintenance manual it says to change the strings one by one to avoid damage to the neck.... so, what is it?
I would love to see that manual!
Can you send me a photo or scan to my email or Instagram account?
I would love to call Ibanez support and ask! Ofc i would make a follow up then, if they have a valid reason or testing that can support that!
@@Dignityofficial_ sure will look it up and send a pic.
@@thomas_xsg awesome! looking forward to it!
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