Just acquired a Sweet Pea. Could anyone provide a detailed description of how to change the strings? Could you point to or provide any photos? Thanks in advance.
sblock
Jul-02-2018, 3:47pm
The Sweet Pea is really no different than any other mandolin, so you change strings basically the same way. There is nothing special about it. If you don't know how to change the strings on a mandolin at all, then there are plenty of self-help YouTube videos and online sets of instructions to follow about this, for example, here (https://consordini.com/changing-mandolin-strings/) and here (https://consordini.com/changing-mandolin-strings/) and here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTXlDQXi8EI) and here (https://www.wikihow.com/Restring-a-Mandolin). And dozens more! Just Google "change mandolin strings" for more.
I strongly recommend changing out the strings one at a time. That way, the bridge saddle position will not be disturbed very much.
On the Sweet Pea, the strings pass through the tailblock to get secured at the bottom end. Just follow the paths of the existing strings, and you can easily see how this works.