Ray…. you asked why anyone would want to cut strings before installation, I gave you the link to the video to answer that one question, nothing more, nothing less. No mention has been made by anyone here, apart from you, of any of that other stuff.

I’ve been changing strings on guitars - solid and hollow body electrics, flat-top acoustics, arch-tops, classical, pedal-steels, fixed bridges, floating bridges, pin-bridges, pinless-bridges, mandolins, mandolas, yadda, yadda, yadda - since 1961. I’m fully aware of all the other stuff in your unnecessary little lecture, but those things weren’t what we were talking about. You’ve made several snarky posts in this thread, so I’m guessing you’re just trying to appear ‘superior’. Guess what…

My wife has a neat little saying she trots out when someone starts lecturing or mansplaining at her - “Don’t you know that nobody likes a Clever-Shit?”.

Now I’m done here, It’s all yours….