Re-string my Ric

dead_eye · Post by **dead_eye** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:25 am

My 360 FG/6 is about a yr old now so she's ready for a complete cleaning and polishing including the fretboard. Everytime I have re-strung her I just put one string at a time on her instead of taking all the strings off at one time. I've herd that taking all the strings off a ric at one time will hurt the neck, because Rics need constant tension on the neck!! Is this true? will it indeed hurt the neck on my Ric? I know with all my other guitars it's fine to take all the strings off.
Paul

wim · Post by **wim** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:29 am

To be honest, when I clean my rick, all the strings go off. Never had any problem.
I honestly wouldn't know why ricks need tension on the neck all the time, unless there'd be a strength issue.

tony_carey · Post by **tony_carey** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:38 am

My luthier says that it wont hurt for a short while, but I normaly restring two at a time. The two E's, then the B & A, then the G & D. It makes sense to keep the tension evenly spaced....just in case!

kcole4001 · Post by **kcole4001** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:06 pm

I've taken all the strings off at once when I restrung my double. It's a pain to try & juggle the R tailpiece while threading the string under the bridge cover & up into the tuner. Didn't hurt the neck, but I think the gauge of strings might be too light.
It's definitely much easier to do it one at a time!