Hey guys, i have some problems on my acoustic guitar. my uncle just bought it for me recently. My brother broke some strings and when i restring the guitar, the strings are too close to the fretboard. and every fret i strum are the same note. can anyone of you help me with this? pictures will be uploaded soon.
Acoustic guitar problem
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is there anyway to change the nut and where can i do it?
Actually for his guitar the deeper it is into the nut the better. I believe you have a guitar that employs a zero fret. Where instead of having the nut be the contact point at the head stock another fret is used, this is mainly used on cheaper guitars since the cost of the labor involved in making a nut with slots carefully filed to the correct height is greater than the labor required to install a zero fret.
And your bridge looks very peculiar, it seems like your guitar uses an archtop style floating bridge. So there should be an actual bridge piece that spaces the strings down at the guitar body's end, it seems to be missing from your pictures hence the action becoming way too low. Look around for it, it's quite hard to miss, it might have fallen off when you were restringing. You must have taken all the strings off at once to restring where instead you should restring one by one especially with these guitars unless you need to clean the guitar or install pickups. I suggest you bring it to an experienced person to do it for you as you can't just pop the floating bridge anywhere you like, it needs to be intonated.
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oh! i noticed the fret, ok ok yea i saw wrong :???: cock eye hehe. anyway yea if thats not the case look at your bridge. is should be your 2 contact points where strings will start vibrating at.
Hi there,
how about you start with changing to a higher tension or higher gauge strings.
ie: 11's or 12's
You probably changed to a lighter gauge string hoping it would be easier to play.
With lighter gauge strings, there is less tension on the neck thus there is more back bow.
My suggestion is start with higher string gauge then maybe truss rod adjustments after (if there is a truss rod)
Good luck!
how about you start with changing to a higher tension or higher gauge strings.
ie: 11's or 12's
You probably changed to a lighter gauge string hoping it would be easier to play.
With lighter gauge strings, there is less tension on the neck thus there is more back bow.
My suggestion is start with higher string gauge then maybe truss rod adjustments after (if there is a truss rod)
Good luck!
+1. I suggest bringing it down to a tech who knows his stuff. It's quite hard for us to diagnose from the pics above to be honest.
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