My first guitar string snapped and it launched a small circular pin somewhere. I looked up how to restring guitar strings and other peoples stringboard look different than how mine is set up. the pins I have aren’t long and straight they are small circular things fitted into a small hole in the wood. What are these kinds of pins called? Can I upgrade to standard guitar pins?
You don’t have any pins in that picture. That’s just the ball-end of the string itself. You can just feed the new string in up to the ball-end, no other parts needed.
This is really cool to see. This is a question that many players might give the newbie some grief over, but y’all are Johnny-On-The-Spot with helpful, nonjudgmental responses.
Four of them within 10 minutes of this post. This is some solid neighborly business right here.
Y’all are good people!
I remember starting basically everything I’ve ever done in my life with just the dumbest questions you could possibly ask. I think it’s important to remember those times and take it easy on new folks. No one ever progresses past that point if they get shot down the second they ask their first question.
There is no such thing as a dumb question, just people to dumb to ask or an ever dumber person who refuses to answer. This is how we learn.
So these are actually just the circular retainers that come attached to the strings. Just buy a fresh string and slot it through that hole the original string was slotted through. I’d recommend you also watch some videos on restringing so you don’t inadvertently snap the new string.
Those pins come on the end of guitar strings, so there’s no need to replace it. When you get new strings, you’ll basically just slide the unfinished end through the hole there and then pull it through until the pin catches.
