Restringing a 12

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Sometimes it's one string at a time, but if a good cleaning is needed I take them all off. The first time it was kinda scary to see the enormous backbow in the neck until I put the new strings on and it straightened right out.

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Fro, that's an excellent point. It's easy to make a mistake. I've put on the wrong strings once or twice, and cut them so that I ended up having to discard them.

That said, I don't like to clean the guitar, especially the fretboard, with the strings on it. I mean you can slack them a lot and make it possible to push them all off the board and clean it, but I prefer to take 'em off.

What is this 'clean guitar' thing you speak of? In the age of cell phones and learning from my mistakes I'd probably take a picture and then take all the strings off if I was going to clean it.
 

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You guys clean guitars ? 😳
 

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Okay, ya got me! No I don't change strings. Nor do I tune. I just buy another guitar!

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