Hunter S Thompsonia
15-08-2007, 04:59
I have a Parker P-38 guitar and am essentially a newbie at this. I have changed strings on ordinary guitars but never on a floating bridge. Anyone know? Also, the strings I have are acoustic strings; does this matter? The guitar itself is a hybrid with both types of pickups so I thought it shouldn't matter too much. The strings disappear down those metal square things, and there doesn't seem to be any way to get the broken bit of string out or to put the new one in.
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Hunter S Thompsonia
15-08-2007, 18:55
Anyone? There's got to be someone with experience with this type of guitar...
http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Strings-on-an-Electric-Guitar
And what kind of strings do you have exactly? I thought there was only metal and nylon and then different gauges with no difference between strings that go on electric or acoustic, just a difference between what goes on classical guitars and every other guitar (nylon strings go on classical guitars, every other guitar goes with steel).
Hunter S Thompsonia
15-08-2007, 19:33
http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Strings-on-an-Electric-Guitar
And what kind of strings do you have exactly? I thought there was only metal and nylon and then different gauges with no difference between strings that go on electric or acoustic, just a difference between what goes on classical guitars and every other guitar (nylon strings go on classical guitars, every other guitar goes with steel).
Yeah, I saw that site, but it's not specifically about floating bridge. It just has the bit about locking the bridge, which I did, but I still can't figure out what to do after that. Athough, there does seem to be another point in that article I skipped over... I'll give it a second try. About the strings, I honestly don't know. They're d'addario strings and when I looked up the part number, it said they were acoustic strings:
http://www.daddario.com/DADProdDetail.aspx?ItemID=EJ16&ID=5
They also seem to be a slightly larger gauge than thre existing ones, which will likely result in a bitch of a time re balancing the bridge once I figure out how to actually get the strings in...