How I finish my guitar string ends in small loops

Finishing guitar strings is very important.
Its the final touch between the guitar tech/ luthier, and the guitar owner/player.

The problem with guitar string ends is, the shorter you cut them, the more stiff and pointy/pokey it became.

So every time the guitar player goes to tune the guitar, they get poked by sharp string ends.

These string ends, especially if the string is cut at an angle, become sharp and needle-like. They will scratch your fingers,hand.

Its the worst experience in trying out a new guitar.

You get a new guitar in your lap...

You are rubbing its curves, and body, and neck and ...

BAM! Snake bite!

Next time you go into any guitar shop,

Inspect the way the ends of the guitar strings are finished.

Its usually some “6 sharp barb” configuration.

It is said that each guitar string finish job is the signature of the person who did the work.

And most peoples “signature” is sloppy.

Here is how to finish your guitar string ends.

Get the smallest tip needle nose plier that you can find.

Cut your string end long enough so that you can grab very tip of string end, hold, and roll pliers, to point the string end directly at the hole in the tuning peg.

Start by clipping guitar string ends to a distance that is the width of the gripping tip of the pliers, plus the length around the outside surface of the pliers tip.

Cut first string, document length.

bend tip in.

Evaluate how well last tip length did with curling.

Adjust cut and curl on next string.

Re-evaluate on each string,

Adjust your tools and techniques to perfection.

I prefer to curl my guitar string ends in the same way that the string is wound around the peg.

I prefer the loops to be as small as possible.

The perfect loop will have the very tip of the guitar string is pointed directly at the tuning peg hole.

The pliers should be held in such a way that when the wire is bent into a loop, that loop is parallel to the headstock.

So just plan each step in advance, so that you can complete the job in one continuous motion...

the pinch grab, the pliers handles, plan how to maintain pliers perpendicular to headstock, and how to maintain pinch grip on string entire time.