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ernandez R -> RE: The long term side-effect of 53mm nut on the left hand (Jun. 28 2020 0:55:58)
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Not to be pedantic, anything closer would be anal, but the mistro of the hand con heavy D did say a 53mm left nut...
I'll leave the rest up to you or perhaps the recently resurrected Banana San will bless this thread with with his wit most egregious.
On my last two Flamenco builds I made the fretboard a few millimeter wider then the standard, I don't recall exactly at the moment and am still indisposed with my foot condition, I'll measure whilst I can. I have fat fingers and thought I should try for more room, not some micron of a millimeter spread out six ways to Sunday but a fat five or more.
The other day I had a steel string player on one of my earlier guitar builds, #4 I think, and he loves the width, the latest wide girth one not so much. Ha, what does he know! Thinking he was more put off by the sinful 666mm scale only he didn't know what those numbers mean. Guessing he thinks I'm a Penatenas playing Satinest rather then the Dog worshiping, bad spelling, Atheist that I am in secret.
I've found that just mixing up the widths teaches your mind to flexible. I find many get locked up in the details and forget to just play. Watching players tune insescently, and retune, and tune again, is more I nerves tic miss learned. I was a Bartender at a well known west coast club, The Catalyst in Santa Cruze, and watched bands three or four nights a week. It became a joke with us bartenders, ah he is tuning again: DRINK! Walked back to his amp to tweek mid song: ANOTHER LINE! Is it any wonder my mind is still flexible enough to play anything with frets to some degree?
For me it is all about the action. How low the strings are so my tired old fingers can fret a cord and bar up to the six fret or so without muting half the strings I didn't intend to. As a builder this is my challenge and has been my failure. Getting better. As a player I feel a I will need a double hand transplant to ever play more then the most basic cords. So low action and fat frets for me, a wide left nut ;) , string pop and buzz galore, and I don't care, I am playing to impress no one, for joy alone, and if someone hears me and comments, hay man sounds good!, then all the more better. Couple months ago my partner says to me, I had to stop hooking* for a moment and listen because what you were playing was really good...
HR
*hooking a rug...
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