Originally Posted by: lee05503I watched the video by Christopher Schlegel on how to restring. But I noticed my guitar Yamaha Pac012 has something on it his guitar did not, not sure what it's called but it's a small piece of metal on the headstock that the 1st and 2nd strings run under. So I'm confused about how much slack to give. I don't know if his rule of string to two pegs applies here or not for length. I'll try to upload picture to show what I mean by silver piece.
The little thing is a string tree. It keeps tension on the lighter strings on a 'Strat' style headstock.
You don't have to worry about anything in terms of slack etc, when you change strings, be sure those two strings, before running end of the string through the tuning peg, run through the string tree as well. Then just tune it up. The string tree is designed to pull the string enough to keep tension on the nut. Both my Strat and Tele have them.
