Curious what nut widths people prefer. My S&P is 43mm i think, but it feels very cramped coming from practising on my yamaha silent guitar (as you would expect). That guitar is 48mm and feels perfect for fingerstyle.
So just weighing up my options:- just accept they are different and adapt accordingly (in all honesty it doesn't take that long), seek something with a wider nut or is it possible to increase string spacing a noticeable amount on an existing guitar?
Has anybody moved to a different guitar for a wider nut and it been worth it? Seems the options are limited unless you go custom.
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just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Probably some truth in that. I had a Tokia semi and sold that because it felt cramped, and that was a 41mm nut. But i played with a plectrum mainly with that guitar so it's probably just that and i've got sausages. I think also the tunes I'm trying are challenging my fretting hand into new positions which seems easier with more space, not much to do with my picking hand.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
nylon string, classical guitars tend to be wider at the nut as (at least IME) nylon strings vibrate a lot more and there's a risk of getting a string to vibrate against a fretting finger. I've found the difference at the bridge end between steel or classical guitar to make no nevermind.
EDIT: I actually find it harder to fret some stuff on the wider nut width of a nylon strung.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
just thought I'd add that string guage seems to make a difference, to me at least.
I like the sound of thicker strings, but sometimes it seems that little bit more cramped.
If I'm playing single-note stuff, I'm usually more interested in muting strings other than the one on which I'm playing, especially with "high gain" electric sounds. I deliberately allow the underside of the fretting hand fingers to mute the higher strings, and I mute the lower strings with the palm of my picking hand.
Otherwise if I'm picking my way through a chord I have to be careful not to foul the string I'm picking "now" with the fingers that are fretting the strings either side of it, and if I want the notes to run into each other I also need to be careful not to choke one off once I've played it.
When I'm playing fingerstyle then all the strings in any combination are required to ring loud & clear which IMO requires different disciplines in the fretting hand. I find it easier to achieve on a wider neck.
@bertie does this make sense or is it still BLX?
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just because you do, doesn't mean you should.