Summary: With strings loosened, cut the old strings before removing, and don’t pull curly string ends through the string retainer.  When installing new strings, first install the neck.  Make sure strings come out straight from bridge pin holes. For locking tuners: do one wrap, tighten the lock screw knob on the back, then tune to pitch.  For normal tuners (like…

All of our saddles are compensated – which means they have an adjustment under the second string to “compensate” for the change in string diameter from the wound strings and the non-wound strings. (strings 3-6 have a wire core and another wire wrapped around it so that they’re thicker, whereas strings 1 and 2 are just two thin wires) If…

After assembling the neck, our collapsible wood guitars are usually less than a semitone off pitch. We recommend pulling on the strings before tuning to pitch to help them settle. Here’s a good video to show the assembly process: However, here are a few things to clarify: If you’ve recently removed the neck, then assembled it, it’s usually much closer…