Do you take off all strings or 1 at a time

[dem00n]

Its how you remove them that matters. If you just cut them all off without detuning them, thats going to **** up your neck. If you detune one string at a time then take it off it wont hurt your neck that much.

[DAS44]

Its how you remove them that matters. If you just cut them all off without detuning them' date=' thats going to **** up your neck. If you detune one string at a time then take it off it wont hurt your neck that much. [/quote']

if its a well made neck, truss rod, and guitar it should hold up fine to detuning em....

 

I never cut em all off.... that is too much of a risk

[dem00n]

if its a well made neck' date=' truss rod, and guitar it should hold up fine to detuning em....

 

I never cut em all off.... that is too much of a risk[/quote']

Also the strings go flying...hehe.

[AXE®]

You're young yet. You wanna RUN down the hill.

 

I be walkin.

 

s-l-o-w-l-e-y.

[FirstMeasure]

If you think about it, your guitar neck and set up goes through more crap playing one Hendrix Tune than changing the strings.

[Murph]

Is it me?

 

This thread wobbles.....

 

One at a time. Even to clean, it's no big deal and I feel better......

[gvhbngh]

all

[DAS44]

Also the strings go flying...hehe.

Fwap OW my eye!

[Silverbursted]

All at once on a fixed bridge, 2 at a time for trem equipped. The loss of tension is not an issue for the short period of time you'll have the strings off. Now if you are talking Floyd Rose, thats another story. Set up on those are too much of a pain.

[Silverbursted]

.....do you notice a period of adjustment?

Not at all. The neck is not a rubber hose that is going to snap out of shape the second you remove the last string.

[Gilliangirl]

I take mine off all at once. My theory behind it is that when you make a truss rod adjustment, it takes a good hour before it settles. If that's the case, you've got an hour before the neck is going to experience any changes due to string removal. So, if you can get the strings off, clean the fretboard, and get the new strings back on in under an hour, you should be safe. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.

[Cruznolfart]

I be walkin.

 

s-l-o-w-l-e-y.

 

:-

 

[ledzep59]

Tune em all down, then cut em all off.

[Laney1566]

I take mine off all at once. My theory behind it is that when you make a truss rod adjustment' date=' it takes a good hour before it settles. If that's the case, you've got an hour before the neck is going to experience any changes due to string removal. So, if you can get the strings off, clean the fretboard, and get the new strings back on in under an hour, you should be safe. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.[/quote']

 

Finally a real answer in favor removing all of them.

 

I've been playing 30 years now and changed more strings than I care to remember. This wasn't a novice question. I was simply looking for a reason why someone believes it's safe to remove all at once. I guess I am getting lazy in my old age and would find it easier to remove all at once for cleaning. I would never cut a tensioned string off the guitar. I don't believe it would hurt the guitar, after all...that is what happens when a string breaks anyway, but it's easy enough to use the speed winder to take tension off. I don't cut off the string unless it gets hung up on the tuner and only after tension is removed. I hate trying to bend the string straight in order to pull it through the hole in the peg with the smallest strings. I always seem to poke myself.

 

Thanks for the responses guys.

[saturn]

Routine, 2 at a time. Set-up or fretboard oiling, all of them.

[TommyK]

All at once. Easier to scrub the board that way.