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Now I can let go of the free end and wind the string up:
You only need to have about half a turn of string wound on the roller to do the job,
but I prefer one full turn.
Some people like to wind up a bit more, and that's just a matter of personal taste,
as long as there's room for the windings. Big wads of bunched up windings can scar
the peghead and be hard to tune, let alone remove, when it's time to restring
Once the string becomes tight, and the end comes around to a convenient
place, I'll snip off the free end:
And tune up:
Notice I've made the winding proceed toward the outside of the peghead. This is to
allow clearance for the next string, and to have the string draw smoothly as possible
across the nut.
Here's the finished product:
Notice how all the strings are positioned. The outside ones go almost straight across
the nut, and the innermost ones are placed so that they just miss scratching the
inner edges of the slots yet draw reasonably straight across the nut.
This Martin guitar has nice wide slots and is easy to string. You really have your
work cut out for you when you restring a National, Dobro or any of the older guitars
with really narrow slots!
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