What do i do after I have Strung My guitar???

Question

Do i tune it to the normal and leave it alone for a while? If so, how long.

its a fender Stratocaster American Standard.

a little story,

i stung my guitar today and was tuning it because i wanted to play a little. I played the high E string and it snapped. guess what happend.... the string freaking stabbed me!!!!!! right thought my ring finger! went so close to the bone. but anyway, thats why i want to take the nessesary actions when stringing a guitar.

one more thing...

should i use only super bulled strings on my fender strat? because i had to re-string my guitar and i wasted the super bullets, one of which stabbed me. the other strings i got are were fender strings, but not super bullets( wasent paying attention and bought only one pack of super bullets) the other pack was just Super 250s.

im rambling on, i'll stop...

Answer 1

play it

Answer 2

Here's a couple things to make sure you didn't do.  Make sure you leave less string going out of the tuning peg on the higher strings, they need to be wrapped around the peg more times than the lower strings.  Also make sure you don't tune it too high when you're first putting the string on.  

If you didn't do either of these things don't buy the strings you bought again.  I recommend ernie ball strings, you can buy each string individually so you can get a personalized gauge set-up for whatever works best for you.

Answer 3

unstring it so you waste as much time as possible

Answer 4

The same thing happened to me when I just got a new Takamine.

Well, it might be because the neck is not the same length and the strings aren't long enough.

Remember, after you string a guitar it's going to take a while for the guitar to get used to it. Play it everyday, for about half an hour and soon your guitar will get used to the tuning after about a few days to a week.

I''m sorry I don't know how to answer your second question because I'm more of an acoustic guitar kind of person, but I hope someone else can and it all works out.

:)