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I don't buy guitars un-played. Totally solved it for me… |
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You must live at or near a city with a good guitar selection. If so, I'm envious. Where I live it's mid-level Taylor and Martin and that's it. I would have to drive 7 hours just to get to a store with boutique guitars.
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The 1.8" nut used on Seagulls is the GraphTech TUSQ PQ-1801-00. The spec'd width is given as 1.8" and 45.9mm. GraphTech told me that's the OEM nut they supply to Godin. It is true that the E-to-e distance on this nut is 1.5", which is the same distance as on GraphTech's (and most other) 1.75" nuts. I am grateful for you pointing this out in the past, Larry. It does appear to me Yamaha uses metric nut widths and rounds to the nearest traditional English measurement. For instance, FG guitars are spec'd with 43mm nuts on the Japanese websites, and given as 1-11/16" on the US website. L series are 44m and given as 1-3/4". 43mm is a little wider than 1-11/16 (1.693", not 1.6875"), and 44mm is a little bit narrower than 1-3/4" (1.72" vs 1.75"). The E-to-e spacing of these nuts is not given. |
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That is quite different than how I read your first post. It appeared to me that you meant string spacing at the nut. Your title references nut width, then the first sentence references string spacing. The word "saddle" never appeared in the first post.
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http://www.acousticguitarforum.com/f...d.php?t=408636 It's getting to be a bit much.
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I live 100 miles from Denver's stores, and 40 miles from the luthier who built my last guitar. I spent 5-6 years choosing my last one and played guitars from coast to coast in the process. It has nothing to do with distance for me. |
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Maybe so but I wish I lived as close as you do. I'll be waiting a long time if I only buy guitars I've actually played. Traveling isn't that easy for my situation. Fortunately I have gotten lucky on enough of my purchases.
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When i first started playing I didn't have a clue about that, so now it's a NON issue. Dan |
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That's actually a 2" nut. Quote:
"Say something once, why say it again?" - David Byrne. Why? Because people weren't paying attention the first 50 times.
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This is my experience: plenty of guitars, included some Martins and some less expensive Taylors, have a 43mm nut width. BUT... Martins and Taylors have a 37mm strings spacing, while most other brands (Yamaha, Takamine, Ibanez, Washburn etc...) have a 35 mm strings spacing. These 2mm of difference make a HUGE difference if, for example, you play fingerstyle. I have a couple of parlors, one from Fender and on from Ibanez, that have a 43mm nut width, they both had a 35mm strings spacing. I replaced the nuts with two nuts with 37mm string spacing and I can play fingesrtyle much better. And, even with a strings spacing of 37mm, there is still room at the edges in order not to "slip" with the E strings.
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I stand corrected. An issue comes with people believing what they read compared to actual spacing. Seagull's have traditionally been spaced identically to their USA American guitar Counterparts. The 1¹¹/₁₆" (44mm), 1¾", (46mm), and 1⅞" (48mm on 12 strings). Confusion happens because the French side of the site lists the mm and the English side the conversions. The 48mm is in reality spaced like a 1⅞", but if converted the neck would mathematically converted as 1.889" I'm not sure how the Artist Pepping CW model Seagull is spaced since it is a 6 string with the same neck width as a 12 string. |
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Exactly my sentiment.
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I have arthritis, 1-11/16" nuts cramp my fingers, 1-3/4" nuts seem to be my sweet spot, 1-7/8" nuts are to wide and cause wrist pain. String spacing to me is fine tuning, if a nut is too thin or wide, or neck profile too meaty or thin, you already have a problem before you even get to playing the first notes.
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As far as nut width goes, though, I find that neck dimensions count for more with regard to playability than nut width. |