At Fender’s wood mill, where both the Fender USA and Custom Shop sawing gets done, you see alder, ash, and maple blanks, plus rosewood for fretboards. How do you know if you've got a Campos pickup? She signs and dates each one. Campos’ pickups are destined for Master Built guitars. You can watch a CNC machine cut Strat pickguards, and then stop in on Josefina Campos, perhaps Fender’s most famed living pickup maker, with 31 years of experience. Saddles, pickup bobbins, shielding, bridge plates … check. At Fender, he leads a tour through the company's metal shop, which includes a press installed by Leo Fender. The tour starts with master builder Andy Hicks, who recount his CV, including a stint in the Gretsch Custom Shop, where he built the Malcolm Young 1963 Jet Firebird G6131 limited edition. And violá! If your nylon-string guitar has a nine- or 12-hole block, consult the manual or other sources. Finally, the loose ends sticking out beyond the knots on the tie block and rollers are trimmed with the wire cutter. The next two highest strings go on the inner part of the roller, as with the bass strings. Next he moves to the highest string, where the light gauge can be especially hard to knot, and also keeps the string on the outside of the roller while winding up to pitch. For the next two low strings, the windings go to the inside. The lowest bass string also needs to be tied securely, and then wound to pitch in such a way that the windings run on the outside of the string roller. This can be challenging the first few times, and especially so for those with large fingers. He starts by running the bass string through the bridge to the tie block-in this case a 6-hole variant-and displays proper string tying technique. Nikos walks us though one string at a time, from bridge to tuners. His tools: a normal tension D’Addario string set, a string winder, wire clippers and a headstand. PG’s Nikos Arvantis offers an in-depth tutorial on changing nylon strings, and specifically on a classical instrument-where the number of string holes on the tie block (six, nine, or 12) vary model-to-model. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Changing strings on a nylon-strung instrument is much different than wrestling with the buttons and wire on a steel-string acoustic. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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