Your Crafter guitar is strung with D'Addario light gauge acoustic strings. The gauges are; E 1st - .012, B 2nd - .016, G 3rd - .024, D 4th – .032, A 5th - .042, E 6th - .053. Provided you restring with the same, or approximately the same gauges, your guitar should not require any adjustment. If you do change to a lighter or a heavier gauge, it may be necessary to reset the truss rod to maintain the correct curvature of the neck/fingerboard.
We recommend that you replace one string at a time as this will minimize the stress on the neck. Start with the low E (6th string). Slack off the tension with the tuning key so the string is quite loose. Then carefully pry out the bridge pin which will release the string. A Crafter BR-100 bridge pin remover will simplify this task. Please make sure that the string is properly slacked off so that it does not spring out and possibly cause injury, particularly to your eyes or face.
Take the new string and pass the ball end through the hole on the bridge (figure 1). Then replace the bridge pin securing it with gentle pressure. Keep your finger or thumb on the bridge pin to retain it and pull the string up so that the ball end grips (figure 2). Then press the bridge pin firmly home. If your guitar does not have bridge pins bend the end of the string slightly to help it pass through the hole (figure 3). Take care when pulling the string through the bridge so that the ball end doesn’t scratch or dent the top of the guitar.



Next Step; Take the loose end of the 6th string and feed it through the hole in the tuning key post (figure 4). Allow about 35 mm / 1½ inches of slack and bend the string upwards tight against the post to create a sharp bend (figure 5). Turn the tuning button to wind the string onto the post with the post turning in the direction indicated in figure 6. Note also in figure 6 the way that the windings should lay. Bring the string up to tension so that it is approximately in tune to low E and cut the end of the string 5 mm / ¼ inch from the tuning post.
Repeat the above for each string but increasing the slack a little for each string as you work through so that there is about 50 mm / 2 inches of slack at the high E 1st string. This allows the number of turns the string is wound around the post to increase as the strings get thinner. When all the strings have been replaced, cut the loose ends off about 5 mm / ¼ inch from the post and bend downwards and out of the way. These ends are sharp and can easily cause minor injury. Be careful!



Crafter Classical guitars Crafter classical guitars use nylon strings and fixing the string to the bridge and string post of the tuning keys is different to a steel string guitar. The string is first passed through the corresponding hole on the bridge, wrapped and tied. The procedure to tie the string to the bridge is shown in figures 7, 8 and 9. Once done, the other end of the string is passed through the hole in the tuning key post and the post rotated half a turn using the tuning key button as shown in figure 10. Allow some slack for the windings and pass the string underneath as shown in figure 11. Wind the rest of the string onto the post as shown in figure 12 and bring it up to tension so that it is roughly in tune. Finally, trim off the loose end of the string.