Peg winders?

[Airborne]

Looking for some advice from you experienced Taylor owners. When changing strings on your guitar do you use a peg winder, whether it be manual or battery operated? If so, could you give your opinion on a type, or model? I have watched the Taylor video on string changing and it looks fairly easy, but I have never done one, so I am somewhat apprehensive. Thanks for any opinions.

[Airborne]

I will do a search for  battery operated one in this forum.

[timfitz63]

Changing strings is pretty easy; if you follow the video or the pamphlet included with your guitar, you'll be fine.

There was a recent thread dealing with this topic (manual string winders).  I myself use a manual winder; those all seem pretty-much the same to me, and work relatively well.  A few folks on the forum use an electric drill, so I'll let them elaborate on that tool/method.

[DennisG]

Here's the review I wrote for Acoustic Guitar magazine ...

http://acousticguitar.com/gear-review-ernie-ball-powerpeg-guitar-string-winder-makes-life-easier/

[TaylorGirl]

Manual or battery operated, both get the job done. The Taylor method is great to follow.

My husband bought me the Skil battery operated "drill", that I just love. I bought the peg attachment from Elderly.

[Airborne]

Thanks for the replies!

[antsap]

I keep manual winders in my guitar cases in case I need to change broken strings at gigs or while I'm traveling.

However, my go to tool if I'm doing normal string changes at home is the following:

Music Nomad MN220 GRIP Drill Bit String Peg Winder

I got mine on amazon for about 10 bucks. It works great on guitars, basses, banjo's and just about anything else with strings. I shove it into my dewalt cordless drill and change strings in a fraction of the time it takes doing it with a manual winder (and orders of magnitude faster than doing it totally by hand).

I love this thing. I typically change the strings on multiple instruments at once now because the setup of my changing pad and getting the cutters and drill out takes longer than a single string change does.

Hope this helps.
-antsap