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breeder

Posts: 16
Joined: Apr. 1 2006

Problem!

hi

i bought my guitar before 2 years.It is alvaro classical guitar,i dont know it is a good guitar or not but is good enough for me right now.At the time a listen rock and play it a couple of months and i was bored and i stoped.
Before some time i start to play a little and i discovered a problem.
I think my fingers are to thin for spacing beetween strings.
I dont know much about guitar and playing,but i feel that i need less spacing beetween strings.I hope you will understand this because my english is poor

From my thinking only thing what i can do here is to replace nut,with some nut with less spacing holes about 1mm less,than if i move first string 1mm up,that leave us that 6th string will be 4mm lower than normal.
And because the "bridge" has not any hole i got to make holes on a bridge.
And because don't know a thing about guitar reparing or anything, is this possible to do,and after repair is guitar "playeble",or a need to buy some guitar with less wide neck or something

?
And one more thing. Strings height at bridge is 13 mm i think they are high,what is a "lowest" height to they can go?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 1 2006 4:54:42

Jim Opfer

Posts: 1876
Joined: Jul. 19 2003
From: Glasgow, Scotland.

RE: Problem! (in reply to breeder)

You've got so many questions/problems in your post that it is difficult to answer.

13mm string height is far too high to play flamenco, a good guitar would be 8mm but the fingerboard angle on your guitar might not be able to take strings this low.
Most guitars have fairly standard neck width 50-53mm so I am surprised to read that you feel you have to re-space the strings. I am no expert but I think this would be almost impossible to do without replacing the whole bridge.

Best advice I can give is that you should sell your guitar in original condition and find one that you feel comfortable with.

Sorry
Jim.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 1 2006 12:07:52

Doitsujin

Posts: 5078
Joined: Apr. 10 2005

RE: Problem! (in reply to breeder)

yes I think that too. Dont try to manipulate the settings by yourself. It will have a bad ending.
Sell it. Maybe there are players who can handle your guitar. But nobody buys guitars which are manipulated.Try find a better one.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 1 2006 13:12:05

JBASHORUN

Posts: 1839
Joined: Jan. 23 2005

RE: Problem! (in reply to breeder)

The best tool for practising Flamenco is a proper Flamenco guitar. if you're serious about Flamenco, then you should consider buying one. If not, then just keep your classical guitar the way it is.

Jb

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 1 2006 13:18:25