New old New H 575 & a question

[Estevote]

Hola todos, I've tried to post a picture of my new H 575 that arrived last week. It is a 1996 that "never left the store" ..so I've cleaned the tarnish and just changed the strings..oiled the fretboard ..I am really happy with it, but as a classical guitarist, I'm used to nylon strings, and I wasn't real sure about stringing this one, but wanted to change those 20 year old strings before something happened. I wasn't sure about the part going into the tail piece, but it looks alright...my bigger concern is that the strings on the roller might slip..there's hardly a complete revolution of the roller to bring it into tune. I'm used to those nylon strings that keep stretching and you end up with a lot of extra string around the roller, but these steel strings just seem to me that they are barely on there..not tied or anything..do they have a habit of coming off the roller? ..or are they okay with about 1 revolution of string around the roller?

Thanks.

[Estevote]

oh, I did think of another question...that tailpiece...it looks like chrome. I've gotten a lot of tarnish off of it but there's still a spot or two of discoloration. Is it just nickel-plated, or is it thick chrome, or what..I thought I'd ask before I keep on cleaning it; I wouldn't want to clean the nickel plating off of it or the chrome, if it's just a thin chrome plating. Thanks again.

[RhoadsScholar]

Beautiful flame on that one. Unless the tarnish really bothers you, other manufacturers charge you to age their chrome or nickel in a similar fashion so I would leave it. Some of the best woods I have seen in Heritage guitars seem to come from the mid 90's. I have a couple from those years and yours looks like a great specimen. Enjoy it.

[tulk1]

What a beautiful guitar. Enjoy that one. If you aren't familiar with stringing steel strings a good internet search for How to String a Guitar will turn up more than you ever thought you'd want to know.

[buzzy]

I'm a two or three wrap kind of guy. I also lock the loose end under the first wrap. I do get some stretch and it could be related to the number of wraps.

 

I've seen folks that only wrap once and I have guitars with locking tuners that require 1/2 wrap. All good - give it a try.

 

I can't help with the chrome/nickel issue. I've ground out some nasty pitting on a nickel tailpiece with OK results; but, that's on a guitar with huge sentimental value that I'll never sell.

 

Oh, excuse the dirty headstock. I play guitar as well as collect them.

 

[Vanschoyck]

I try to get 3 wraps and I don't do any fancy looping, just one wrap over the top and the other two below.

 

I have a hell of a time with nylon strings!

 

Great looking 575.

[Estevote]

Thank for all the replies. It really helped me. I lost 3 of the new strings when I re-did them the proper way, but I had new replacements for them and anyway, the flat 11's are on their way. It's funny that after 40 years of playing classical and changing strings, that I wouldn't know the proper way to do it, but these electrical beasties are totally different. I had already cleaned it up and removed the tarnish from the tailpiece but here is a better photo of her all cleaned up and ready to play.

[Steiner]

Beautiful guitar estevote! The 575 is the style of choice around my home. You got a Duesey! Congrats.

[Gianluca]

nice 575 enjoy it

 

I'm +1 on more wraps as the string size decreases

usually having at least 2 wraps at low E

 

for my Martin D-35 I followed this method:

for the electric guitar strings I follow the same hooking method but getting a bit different when measuring the wraps:

 

(both videos have time refs and should start on topic)

[bsck1]

Man, is that H-575 ever the essence of class.

 

Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy.