Re: Changing string gauge without changing nut?
- From: "Steve Latham" <llatham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 02:55:54 GMT
"Keith Adams" <keithadams@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You shouldnt have any trouble with it but theres only one way to be
sure. Try em out. If the slots arent wide enough even a fingernail
file would probably work making em wider.
Ummm. I've got to interject here. Please don't go taking a file to your nut
(nut, not nuts you guys).
You could also buy a set of
jewelers files for under $5. The nut is probably plastic. Most are .
If it's acoustic, yes, though some nuts are made of other materials that are
a bit harder. Of course electrics can vary. I'm assuming this is electric
since it came with 9s (acoustics usually seem to ship with 10s or 11s)
Dont go any deeper with the slots. Just wider.
I wouldn't. Take it to a tech. Unless you want to buy a new guitar. You
screw up the nut, it may cost you enough to where you wish you did buy a new
guitar (depending on the original's price :-)
There are cheap guitars where the nut is held in solely by string pressure
and if you screw it up, it's easy to replace it. But other nuts are more
secure, and if you screw it up, you need to get the old one out, which may
not be easy, and replace it with the new one, which may not be easy either
(find the right size, install it, etc.). Nuts on nicer guitars are designed
so that there's a specific angle betwen the nut and the first fret when you
push the string down, and there's distance compensations for each string,
and so on.
So if you put 10s on, and it looks like the strings are "riding high" above
the nut without actually sitting in the grooves, then you may need to widen
it. You may still want to take it to a tech 9htye have the right tools to do
it too). But most guitars will accept the bit larger gauge strings, so I
wouldn't worry too much.
Still, when you have a few extra bucks, take your guitar to a tech and have
them check it out. If there's adjustments that can be made to improve how it
plays, and it's not too expensive, you may want to consider that (though
don't get suckered in to any more than 50 dollar set ups as they're BSing
you - some techs will try to tell you the frets that came with the 129
dollar guitar you just bought are crap, and they can put in some nice frets
for you for 100 bucks. Sure they're crap, it was 129 dollar guitar! Well, if
you bought the 229 dollar guitar to begin with, you'd have 'em!)
Best,
Steve
"Paul Taylor" <birder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm looking at replacing the original (i.e. cheap) strings on my
guitar.
I don't know what gauge the strings are, but I assume they are 9-42.
If I changed to 10-46 strings, would I have to enlarge the grooves in
the nut, or are the two gauges close enough to be interchangable?
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