Anyone ever timed themselves stringing a guitar?

[JacksonMIA]

Open a beer - change the 6th string - finish beer
Open a beer - change the 5th string - finish beer
Open a beer - change the 4th string - finish beer
Open a beer - change the 3rd string - finish beer
Open a beer - change the 2nd string - finish beer
Open a beer - change the 1st string - finish beer

Last time took me a little over an hour, I think!!

And it sped up a little with each string until you got to the last couple and you were a little too buzzed to care how fast you were doing it.

[El Dorado]

D and A? Standard tuning? What size strings are you using?

Yeah, I break the wind. Standard tuning. Usually 28 and 38. I've used Ernie Balls, GHS, and D'addarios, they all do it.

[Beer$]

Anyone heard of the Floyd Rose speedloader?

[JB_From_Hell]

Anyone heard of the Floyd Rose speedloader?

Yeah.... I bet you're about to be able to get one REALLY cheap.

[Kindred_Spirits]

Cutting the ballends is a wasteful way of stringing a floyd and leaves you high and dry if a string breaks.

Pull the string through the tuner until it hits the ball end and wrap up the excess and only trim the core off the end of the wound strings.

How does keeping the ball end on going to help you when a string breaks? If you wind enough on the post, you can accomplish the same thing. The ball end doesn't do jack **** but look cool.

[El Dorado]

How does keeping the ball end on going to help you when a string breaks? If you wind enough on the post, you can accomplish the same thing. The ball end doesn't do jack **** but look cool.

It does make it easier to unwind and then wind back. The string never comes out of the post.

[RushOfBlood]

bigsby's are a whole nother story.

[Voxman]

I`ll try it