RideTheCrash
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Hey guys. My wife recently acquired the guitar I learned how to play on (my buddy was selling it off I guess) for super cheap. I think the last time I saw it was 4-5 years ago, but it was in worse shape. Pretty beat up as usual, but the intonation and action were worse than a $2 Wal Mart guitar. I took it into my local shop and had it cleaned out, and set up properly. Picked it up yesterday and it plays really nice now. However I noticed my G and E (high strings) seemed a little off. I picked it up again today and they sound like dead strings...this is sort of weird, but if I take a fingernail and press the string down a bit in the nut slot while playing the string, it sounds like it comes back to life and doesn't sound dead. I can try to post a sample later if I find time...
The tech who did the guitar had told me it should be fine, except maybe for some fret buzz due to really worn frets. I haven't found this to be a problem, just these dead sounding strings. I know she filed down some of the nut because it was high and I know I'm not going crazy because the same tech did my acoustic guitar last summer and I had this same problem with the G string, so I'm pretty confident they aren't just bad strings. I might take it elsewhere to get the nut checked out, but could it be that they just a crappy job filing it, and now the nut is choking the string?
The tech who did the guitar had told me it should be fine, except maybe for some fret buzz due to really worn frets. I haven't found this to be a problem, just these dead sounding strings. I know she filed down some of the nut because it was high and I know I'm not going crazy because the same tech did my acoustic guitar last summer and I had this same problem with the G string, so I'm pretty confident they aren't just bad strings. I might take it elsewhere to get the nut checked out, but could it be that they just a crappy job filing it, and now the nut is choking the string?