OK I'm not musically gifted,not a clue how music suppose to sound.(seeing that I'm partially tone deaf and have been all my life and yes I do wear hearing aids but only when watching TV)
if it sound OK to me but be way out to some one who knows.
does it really matter if the intonation is not correct say from the open to the 12th fret it is GDG but the rest is not.
all I know of intonation is high 'n' low in sounds
the reason why I'm asking is that my little 3 sting acoustic that I converted from a 6 stringer.
it is Tune GDG in open to fretted 12th but all others are not is this normal?
set by my tuner 439 HZ
frets......
3rd C ,F,B (all just past the green onto red mark)
5th C,G,C
7th D,A,D
9th E,B,E
12th G,D,G spot on
its a cheap 3/4 acoustic with a flat fret board with brass frets.
it probably only cost about £30/£40 it was nade in the czech republic.
I've since removed the plastic nut and put a bolt on and cut the bridge down as it was sitting to high.
also the bolt some how made it sound better...well it did to me.
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OK 1st of all the neck is bent at about the 12th fret.
upon checking the stewmac fret etc. the fretts are 1mm out from the nut all the way up towards the sound hole.
no trus rod is fiited so not much I can do about that.
I set the tuner to 440 and that made a noticeable different ... open gdg,12th frets its just over gdg.
I don't think there's much I can do to this guitar with it being bent.
anyway thanks for being patient with me.
as for being tone deaf its not quite that bad.
I have problem hearing high notes/low notes but it between I'm ok.
I've had hearing problems since being a baby due to catching pneumonia .
whispering I cannot make out even into my ear.so that'll give you some idea.
thats enough of me!
now ya starting to confuse me!
I said centre no! from as per drawing by Mr f Johnson now you say where the nut touches the string!
when I said I'll cut a piece wood out I meant enough to fit a new piece for the 6mm bolt to sit as I've no room for the bolt other wise the strings will be rubbing the frets.
the plastic nut is only a small piece as it broke up with it being brittle when I took it apart,the rest of is in the bin or was.
I need to get this right as I don't want to make more only to find that the buggers are way out.
I think our collective intention is to help a fellow member. Each has good merits. Bottom line is do as you wish, but be sure about it before physically altering the whole shebang.
had a little time spare today and checked the old nut and the measurements don't add up.
it was even worst than the nut that I had on!
I'm going to cut a piece out of the neck and put a bigger piece in to get the distance at the week end.
Don't start cutting the thing up ! The fretting must be correct for the scale length (distance from nut to saddle) of that particular guitar.The scale length is not necessarily the same as Gitty's,it's probably in millimetres anyway.
Dude any expression of length can be made in multiple units, and that doesn't preclude measuring that length in some other unit.
My point was that the scale length is probably not the same
Correctamundo. Was just trying to get Dr. Mackay to think through the problem in all its grandeur before severing the spleen. ;-)
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