Cleaning a Guitar for Restringing

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Hi I'm Bryan Billhimer and on behalf of Expert Village , today I'm going to show you how to re-string and tune a guitar. Now that we've removed all the strings we're going to go ahead and clean the guitar while we have the strings off so you have access to everything here. We're going to start with the body here and you know your guitar will collect a lot of dust even though you're playing a lot, so you want to get in all the grooves and this will help preserve the body of your guitar, keep the paint good, even though this is an old guitar. I still like to keep it looking good. Shine up the pickups, also there are parts that come off here, you want to take the bridge off here, it will just slide right off. Every guitar is a little different, the bridge might be a little different. Set that aside! There are these pads underneath that spin, they will raise your bridge up and down, you want to make sure when you're dusting in between here, if you like the setup of your guitar make sure that those don't spin. You might want to put your fingers on them, to keep those from spinning as your dusting around those. Make sure you get in between the volume knobs, something you can also do when your cleaning your guitar is get a can of compressed air and blow underneath these knobs to get some dust out, if you wish. I'll flip it over and get the back. You also want to do, this is the fretboard here where you put your fingers. I like to clean in between each fret, because as you play you have oils in your fingers and you're going to build up a lot of crud in there, and while you have the strings off you might as well get that stuff off. I'm going to go in between each set of frets and clean that off. You can see there that we're getting some dirt off.

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