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Re: Is this a record for the fastest string change?
« Reply #15 on: March 17, 2012, 09:38:22 AM »
+1 on the Taylor method.  Easy and clean.  Have done measurement modification for in line tuners and use it on my Strats as well.   Works well.
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Re: Is this a record for the fastest string change?
« Reply #16 on: March 17, 2012, 11:02:23 AM »
After seeing the Taylor method on the Taylor website I have always done it their way.  It looks so much cleaner.  I have a friend that lets the extra hang out all the time, I guess its his way of letting his freak flag fly. ;D
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Re: Is this a record for the fastest string change?
« Reply #17 on: March 17, 2012, 03:37:02 PM »
He sure is fast!!! Do you think he was stretching the strings as he was installing them, or didn't they get stretched? I am always so amazed when I see people installing strings and the strings don't fall out of the hole on the first wind like they do for me. ::)
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Re: Is this a record for the fastest string change?
« Reply #18 on: March 17, 2012, 03:49:13 PM »
can we really be sure that the guitar was in tune when was done?????  :P

jk, of course.....yeah, it takes me 45 seconds to get the high E uncoiled.
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Re: Is this a record for the fastest string change?
« Reply #19 on: March 17, 2012, 03:49:44 PM »
I still can't believe it!!  I watched it again and I just sat there in awe!!  There is no telling how many strings he has changed or installed in his career!!  The tuning is still what impressed me the most!!
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Re: Is this a record for the fastest string change?
« Reply #20 on: March 17, 2012, 04:48:03 PM »
Quite good, but I can change a string in a couple of minutes too.

Oh, hang on, he did all six?  :o
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Re: Is this a record for the fastest string change?
« Reply #21 on: March 17, 2012, 10:22:10 PM »
I use my driver on the treble side strings and my hands on the bass. I also wrap over the plain strings. Guess I'll go into training. Ha Ha !
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Re: Is this a record for the fastest string change?
« Reply #22 on: March 18, 2012, 08:30:08 AM »
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Cute demonstration, but it would take a lot longer if he had to take the strings out of their packaging, and coil up the old ones for disposal.

I bet it could take him up to :18 sec longer, give or take :0025 sec.
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Re: Is this a record for the fastest string change?
« Reply #23 on: March 19, 2012, 09:07:46 AM »
This could open a whole new forum on competitive string changing. 

Everyone lined up with their guitar, waiting for the gun to go off.....

First one done, hands in the air!

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Re: Is this a record for the fastest string change?
« Reply #24 on: March 19, 2012, 09:18:38 AM »
Quote from: DennisG on March 16, 2012, 09:21:25 PM
Quote from: Steve on March 16, 2012, 09:13:22 PM
Rob Magargal is the Lucas McCain of guitar techs...

Man, that is one obscure reference!

For me it isn't.  I watch the Rifleman on Me TV at least a few nights a week.  ;)
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Re: Is this a record for the fastest string change?
« Reply #25 on: March 19, 2012, 09:41:23 AM »
Quote from: Iplay2 on March 19, 2012, 09:07:46 AM
This could open a whole new forum on competitive string changing. 

Everyone lined up with their guitar, waiting for the gun to go off.....

First one done, hands in the air!



I would be a great candidate for the slowest string changer!!!  Everyone else would be finished, have their guitars packed up and on the way home by the time I got half of them changed!!! 8)
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Re: Is this a record for the fastest string change?
« Reply #26 on: March 19, 2012, 07:26:37 PM »
Oh wait...he tuned it too....with that little "water finder" thingie?
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Re: Is this a record for the fastest string change?
« Reply #27 on: April 20, 2012, 10:07:58 PM »
Very impressive!!
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