NGD SD-60

[fantex]

My SD-60 arrived today. Purchased off Reverb.

This guitar is killer. It's louder than my 00-40 and obviously has more bass but not too much. Need to change the strings. It was listed on Reverb as a 2023, but according to the Larrivée website, looking up the serial number it was made February 13, 2024...so barely a year old and a half old. I am stoked...I'll be playing this one a long while.

Now what's the best tutorial on changing strings on a slothead?

[mike in lytle]

My SD-60 arrived today. Purchased off Reverb.
Now what's the best tutorial on changing strings on a slothead?

     
Your post included a pic of the lower part of the neck, but not the head stock.
Your post is therefore lacking.
Congratulations anyways! The SD sure makes the 00 look tiny.
I have no input for string changes however, I am sure you will figure it out.
Mike

[B0WIE]

 Congrats! That guitar is a young-un. Needs time for the bass to mature. Once the woods relax it will BOOM.

Also, not showing the best part, the headstock, is an affront but we'll let it slide. 

As for changing the strings, you'll see a lot of nonsense on youtube from people trying to apply peg head practices to slot head. Basically, if you wrap the string on top of itself, it won't slip. If you need, I'll post a pic that shows what I mean by "on top of itself". It's laying it over the kinked part that is going to get clipped. I use only one wrap on the wounds and they stay in tune amazingly well. When you start to get loops, that's when tuning suffers. On the unwounds I'll do a couple on the G, more on the other two as they can be slippery and you want to leave enough string that you can re-wrap if one happens to slip.

Edit, also; determine the direction of your wraps (left or right of the hole) by the cut of the slots. Some headstock slots will rub the strings if you don't have the strings exiting the slots in a certain way.

[B0WIE]

I searched my photos of guitars I sold and found one that may be helpful. The G string on the upper-right shows everything you need to know. It's laying on top of itself, which means it can't slip and it only needs 1 wind. It also wraps to the outside, rather than in, because it would otherwise rub (each guitar varies in that aspect).

[William2]

That is a beautiful guitar. I love my SD-40R and am always amazed at how easily responsive it is to my plucking hand. The other day I was looking at a Wisconsin luthier (Madsen Guitars). He makes a dreadnought that he calls the Ditson model. It looks very much like the SD body design. I wonder if the Larrivee SD was based on this design. 

[Rockysdad]

Fantex, Congrats, enjoy it forever. 

[fantex]

OK, I got your pic of the slotted headstock...and changing the strings wasn't too bad.

[William2]

WOW!!

[StringPicker6]

I love the old style straight bridge on that. What a perfectly built guitar.

[B0WIE]

I agree about the traditional bridge. Though it doesn't come though in pics, the binding, purfling, rosette, etc are all really beautiful little touches when you're looking down at your guitar. I hope you have a great time with that one. Try dropping the low E. It's really awesome.

[fantex]

Thanks everyone. The binding is so nice, the maple has a little flame marbling to it.