Forgot to mention I use a pair of super top of the line Snap On Electronics sized (small) "pair of dikes" as in diagonal cutters and it's reeeally important to cut the string ends square, not an angled "boloney cut", a cut like that will pierce your fingers easily, a dead straight cut with the right pliers, not as much it makes a difference. I use the top of the tuner post as a stand to brace the pliers, way far from any other strings or the headstock.
I don't like any sort of locking tuners, prefer the old way.
Nigel says the old way has better sustain?
;-)
My D28, gone now, turned into two Guilds. Pics like these mean the chopping block. You can seen the ends of the strings well enough, tucked around the post in a way that won’t hurt anyone or snag polishing cloths. To me, that’s tidy. The tidiest.
1980 Gibson The Paul I sent to a guy in Ireland just in time for New Year’s Day, about ten years ago… You can see the directional wraps around the capstans, tuner shafts. Hhaha, you can see the high E string leftover needs to be tamed a little, tucked in.
Also, check out the scalloped nut, anyone familiar with scalloped nuts? My last Flametop, gone, same old wrap.
I guess I could say I’m a bit of a wrap artist when it comes to guitars, to borrow an line from a old Joni Mitchell song, “Nobody does it, quite the way I do”…
And now for something completely different!
The curled up strings ends on my F30 because I didn’t know how long I’d be leaving them on. Just about the prettiest job I ever done, I’ll say ;-)) That's the new nut I tried my hardest to screw up, but some force (not Murphy) made it come out nearly divine, and the guitar is freakin loud now.