If your guitar string breaks...do you fix it yourself or take it to a shop?

Question:I am a very new to guitars and a string snapped.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I am a very new to guitars and a string snapped.

OK if something actually breaks on a guitar I'd take it to a shop, but a string snapping is a pretty standard thing that most any player learns how to do. Go to a music store, maybe the one where you bought the guitar if possible, ask them if they could help you please, sell you a string and put it on for you and show you how to do it. Then you can buy a string winder and change or replace strings anytime you need to.

I keep spare sets and single strings for such events and I change them myself.

go to the shop and get 2 sets of 6( 1 for extra) ,ask the dude at the counter to teach you.

go to the shop and ask them to teach you how to do it

I use a Ibanez jem777..so basically need a diploma in engineering and a toolkit the size of a car to change a string..complete nightmare...and if one snaps on stage...(free floating trem system) shows over for 20 minutes.

If you dont have one of these it's usually very easy. Intonation can be a bit of a circus though.

I always do it myself, but I guess that would be hard if you'd never done it before.

buy a string and do it yourself. Why pay etra for something that you can easily do. Just string and tune it back to pitch.

I fix it myself. I would hope that I would know how to do that, I've only been playing for 20 years.

When a string snaps, it's usually a sign that the whole set of strings is pretty old, and you should change the lot, not just the broken one. If a string snaps when you've recently changed strings - sometimes that just happens, sometimes you get a dodgy set of strings, or you've wound them badly onto the tuner, or you've tuned them too high. In which case, nothing for it but to change them again (if they're very new, you can get away with changing just the broken one) and maybe consider changing your brand of string.

I use D'Addario strings mainly because it takes them forever to break.