My buddy just finished building his guitar. You strum it and it sounds great! You try to finger it and it mutes. Even when trying to play acoustic it has NO SOUND when you try to finger it. What would cause this?????
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if i had to guess i would say you dont have enough string break angle over your bridge and nut. why it would do this i dont know but thats what im going with
Thanks for all the help. Tomorrow I will go back over there and see what we can finger out!! oops I mean FIGURE...lol Thanks again!
I see there`s no break angle between the bridge and tailpiece. You need that downward pressure after the bridge. Yep add a 1/4" fretboard and a taller bridge which in turn will give you that needed string break to the tailpiece.
ok he raised the nut and the bridge, re tuned it and still doing same thing! Next he will try some sort of string tree before bridge and aft the nut.
He shouldn't raise the nut, only the saddle/bridge. If you raise the bridge and the nut you just increase string height and solve nothing as far as string to fretboard angle.
OH OK!! I will tell him to use original nut and raise the saddle/bridge. Thanks
Looks like you have some good advice. One thing I have noticed on my fretless in addition is if I do not have it tuned up close to GDg for example, there is not enough string tension to generate sound. And you have to exert a fair amoung of pressure on the string to play fretless. The measurement you want to look at is the 12th fret when fretted at the say 5th fret - you should have 1/8" or so cleareance of the string.
Have fun!
Yep. lower the nut and raise the bridge.
I think I just wanted to "say" that!
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