As you get older your nuts get lower
So it would seem. Hmm...
As you get older your nuts get lower
So it would seem. Hmm...
I’ve been through my fair share of guitars, and only three have come in to my possession having a correctly cut nut from the factory; my Tyler Studio Elite HD, my Carvel GG sig and my MM Luke II. All the rest have had to visit my local luthier. It makes a HUGE amount of difference to a guitar’s playability and overall set up. I now have the proper tools to do it myself, though I’ve yet to dare... Kudos to @Cederick
My first acoustic was an Epiphone with a zero fret, and it was very playable. More like an electric than an acoustic.
I’ve been through my fair share of guitars...
Ya think, SamBro'?
Display MoreThis one really reminds me my new guitar (except for your killer top) that i just received yesterday
Mine is a Peruzzo JFB
it is an one piece of wood to build body and neck together
here we call "integrated construction"
has Seymour Duncan's Blackouts pickups
ebony scale and it is gorgeous, very cool of playing, very modern neck,
i have other guitars and a couple with a low string action this one is very low too but in the others strings are almost glued to the neck and has no buzz at all, the lowest guitar i have has indeed a Fret as Nut...
i think the secret for this low action is in fact to sand the neck and the frets too... your frets will have a short life time... but it is insane fast to play with then... i will show you next time...
Your sure it's not pleked?
Display MoreThats how I set up my guitars
I'm obsessed about the nut being so low the strings almost touches the 1st fret
For me thats more of a concern than the action at 12th fret
Doesn't matter how low the 12th fret is, if the nut action is higher than "almost touching" I'm not gonna enjoy the guitar to it's fullest
Of course this has led me to sometimes overdo my nut filing and get a buzz and have to either replace the nut or do the "superglue and bicarbonate" trick to raise it.
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I second that. The nut should be as low as it can be. Nuts on new guitars are almost always too high. I remember i started a thread about that and some didn't understand why even thou I explained why.
It’s tough being a lefty metal player so I treated myself when I seen these come up on the used market. First is a Jackson USA SL2H Soloist and second is a Ltd Elite M2 which is what esp made first and after a year of elites changed the name to the current lineup Esp E2 M2. Both are awesome ! I can’t put either down which makes it difficult to play with a guitar in each hand lol.
It’s tough being a lefty metal player so I treated myself when I seen these come up on the used market. First is a Jackson USA SL2H Soloist and second is a Ltd Elite M2 which is what esp made first and after a year of elites changed the name to the current lineup Esp E2 M2. Both are awesome ! I can’t put either down which makes it difficult to play with a guitar in each hand lol.
Another lefty here!
Here’s my newer Schecter PT-7 Garza from earlier this year! This is one of my holy grail guitars!
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CJ is a Lefty like me and you , can i get a lefty unite call here?
i like checking xtreme lefty guitars dot com to find them and reverb
Jimi Hendrix
Tommy Iommi
Paul Mcarthy
much more..need more examples?
yet STILL we pay more
assholes!!
Ash
Display MoreCJ is a Lefty like me and you , can i get a lefty unite call here?
i like checking xtreme lefty guitars dot com to find them and reverb
Jimi Hendrix
Tommy Iommi
Paul Mcarthy
much more..need more examples?
yet STILL we pay more
assholes!!
Ash
We should create a lefties' Union or at least our own thread here, Ash?
Done! A new thread for us!
Display MoreCJ is a Lefty like me and you , can i get a lefty unite call here?
i like checking xtreme lefty guitars dot com to find them and reverb
Jimi Hendrix
Tommy Iommi
Paul Mcarthy
much more..need more examples?
yet STILL we pay more
assholes!!
Ash
Well I believe there are more here but like me playing right handed. There were almost no left handed guitars in music shops when I started to play and if, they costed at least 1000$. That's like 2000$ today. Too much for a teenager 34 years ago.
Just had this one delivered last week. I hate buying without putting my hands on it, but at least with the internet we have some options now. I'm glad I'm a lefty though, otherwise I would be a serious guitar hoarder, way too many cool right handed options out there. The only left handed guitars I find are either ultra cheap or expensive, not much in the upper middle ranges.
In the 80's I ran security teams for the big guitar shows in the U.S. I met Jim and he has a lefty's only guitar shop in Houston, TX.
Every time I walk into his shop I know how you southpaws feel. There is nothing in here I can pick up and play.
He's a cool guy.
https://www.southpawguitars.com/
Your sure it's not pleked?
Yes, in fact i did not even know what pleked is until you asked me, but i checked on youtube and my guitar does not received this plek adjust
it is a headless guitar made with a simple overlord of music bridge that is a kind of steinberger bridge, was not expensive and the last owner did sanded the frets to avoid exchange some of then
this guitar has a Zero Fret instead of a nut, the frets are so wasted that the strings are almost inside of the frets, think it is time to exchange then
anyway,maybe there is no plek being made here at Brazil at all... my guitar had the frets sanded with a tool similar to this one that is used to check the height/level of the frets but instead has a blue sand paper glued to the tool
sometimes when the guitar`s neck is very well made the frets are large and there is no need to sand then but if the guitar`s neck is not so well build then you may need to sand to remove the buzz and get the benefit of the lower strings action, also if the guitar has a floyd rose for instance, and you try to low the bridge pivots and start to get more and more buzz, you try different strings, you try adjusting the trust rod, nothing works then this sanding can eliminate the buzz without having to raise the bridge again
i made this on a chinese replica that was good looking but terrible made and it worked well...
I have just scored this beauty. Amazing J Custom, plays and looks stunning!
That's better than a lot of the R9s I see.
my new Vigier SupraA in rockart finish and amber pickup
took a year of waiting but worth it
here is a 1 minute video of a closer look of the Vigier Excalibur Rockart
I'm obsessed about the nut being so low the strings almost touches the 1st fret
when fretting the 3rd fret.
again, fret the string in question at the 3rd fret and it should have just a little wiggle room over the first fret.
this is the way major manufacturers with top luthiers in their staff set up guitars.
go lower - exptecto fret buzzum
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