NGD redemption for my Eastman E10 OO.

Cri75! · #1 06-10-2022, 04:31 AM

Hi everyone,

After almost 1,5 months from my thread: "Ruined? NGD - Eastman E10 OO" https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/...82#post6989882 , I am here to happily redempt the NGD.

Summarizing.

At the NGD the guitar had several issues, a very very poor cut nut, some tuners with stripped screws, Hight action.

I thought to return the guitar, but all the important parts were put together very well, I love the shape, I love the sound, I love the neck, I love the guitar, I bonded with it. I even put the phone inside and check everything and everything is very well assembled, with no flaws at all.

I fixed the action, replaced the bad screws and I put on a new nut, made other little work on it, and now I cannot be happier with my guitar.

About the nut:

Here are the distances between the strings in the original ones ( not center to center, but the distance from the end of one string to the start of the other... so the space between the strings)

In mm: edge of the nut (3.85) E (7.45) A (6.95) D (6.35) G (7.1) B (6.85) e (3.3) edge of the nut.

In inches In mm: edge of the nut (0.152) E (0.293) A (0.274) D (0.25) G (0.28) B (0.27) e (0.13) edge of the nut.

The nut width from the catalog should be 1.81, instead, it is ~1.84.

The shop had to send me a new nut, but for some issues, they have not been able to do it, so they suggested me a refund of 30 euros and I accepted.

Since the width of the nut was ~1.84, I bought online a Graphtech TUSQ NUT SLOTTED 1 7/8" (PQ-6138-00). I did some minor adjustments, install it and now the distances between the strings in the original ones ( not center to center, but the distance from the end of one string to the start of the other... so the space between the strings) are:

In mm: edge of the nut (2.9) E (8.2) A (8.2) D (8.2) G (8.2) B (8.5) e (2.8) edge of the nut. Overall strings spacing E to e 40.9 measure with a caliper.

In inches: edge of the nut (0.114) E (0.323) A (0.323) D (0.323) G (0.323) B (0.335) e (0.11) edge of the nut. Overall strings spacing E to e 1.61 measure with a caliper.

I also fixed some minor indents on the saddle, changed the strings and mount them properly, so now the spacing at the bridge is ~ 2-3/8" (~ 60mm) as has to be.

I also removed the pickguard.

Here is a comparison between the nuts:

And here is the guitar before and after:

Bye

Cristian

Silly Moustache · #2 06-10-2022, 05:31 AM

Hi, I have an E20-P which should have identical dimension to your E10-P and while I haven't had an issue with mine in the sme way,

I did take some measurements with a digital caliper
and attach some pics.

The nut width on mine is exactly 1.81"
the string bleed (from edge of fretboard to strings edges of 1 & 6 were 1 = .13" and 6 - .108"

The one thing that I noticed as soon as I got is in November 2019 was that the pinholes didn't perfectly match up to the string spacing. (2.38")but the saddle holds them perfectly well so I've stopped worrying bout them -and I've changed strings on it 12 times since I had it!

I also removed the rather poor quality "pickguard" and replaced it with a prettier Holter pickguard.

see pics :

Wellington · #3 06-10-2022, 07:32 AM

Wow that spacing was pretty out of whack, makes me curious what my guitars are, evenly spaced, centre to centre or neither. Don't know if I'll check as I don't have issues with it now!

Glennwillow · #4 06-10-2022, 08:29 AM

Hi Cristian,

I'm glad you are now happy with your Eastman 00! Very nice guitar!

Congratulations! Glad you were able to fix the problems!

- Glenn

KevinH · #5 06-10-2022, 10:13 AM

Too bad that you had to deal with those issues, but good that you could fix it. Looks like a great guitar. I too am a fan of 00s.

Curious, how did you decide on the distance from the edge?

Cri75! · #6 06-10-2022, 01:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinH

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Curious, how did you decide on the distance from the edge?

I have a Sigma 000-18M that has 0.095” (2,4mm) of distance from the edge. It has 1 3/4 nut width, perfectly cut and it is sooooo comfortable to play.
So happened that the graphtech nut for 1 7/8 seemed to gave me similar distance. I took the risk and I have been rewarded. Very light reshape and it is perfect.