Guitar setup hacks: 10 tips on changing strings and staying in tune
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- 27 Sep 2022
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Practical, simple ways to get your guitar playing and sounding better than ever
There are a number of factors involved – including how you fit the guitar strings, and taking care of the bridge and nut on your electric guitar
Here are 10 simple tips to make your life easier with tuning, strings and more.
1. Reduce nut friction
If you’re finding that a string suffers from erratic or unstable tuning, it might well be because the string is catching in your guitar’s nut. Sometimes this can necessitate the nut being filed, or even replaced, but before you get extreme, try lubricating your nut slots.
You can buy bespoke nut lubricants to do this of course, but a quicker, easier method is to use a pencil in the nut slot of the problem string – the graphite in the pencil lead should smooth up the travel of the strings on the nut and improve your tuning stability. Read More...
