Corey Taylor same and it has no truss rod so I can’t lower the action if I wanted to play it even though I have a much better guitar now-

Same here lol

Did the guitar allow you to learn since I'm starting out and I need an affordable guitar.

Rania D. I have played them from other shops that are not Walmart because I live in the U.K. they are terrible. but i think the best affordable guitar I have owned is the epiphone dr 100. I is £100(I don’t know how many dollars) and it is amazing actually.

@@raniad.1786 go on amazon, find a cheap strat knockoff, they are good for starting out, but take it to a music shop to get it set up properly, and get them to show you basic maintenance

+245194LAC Is using WD-40 not good with 80/20 bronze?

245194LAC

I’ll definitely try this when I get a guitar

I read this comment and it lasted a quarter of the vid

Thanks 245194LAC that's very kind of you also to share

good lord sanchez i'm not letting a drop of lemon oil on my guitar

I'd like to find one, I could customize an acoustic guitar with it.

Thank you. I thought it was fun.

reminded me of opening of Alice in Chains song Rotten Apple lol

loop

Under Promise over deliver. LOL

randolph patterson don't forget "hole" and "jack"

Major Danger and “get in there”

@james crowe funny immature idiots

LMAOOOO

@@hwinangkoso I’m

Its a much better product than bubbas nut sauce.

my nut sauce is the best. i know cuz we ran a market test at the local prison. :0

Big bends*

There are a few different brands of lube that are all referred to as nut sauce. I can't remember which brand is the original.

Deez' nuts sauce

Nice little tip. Before I got lasik, I wore glasses and used to have a lot of trouble with the screws coming lose. My optometrist made that same suggestion and it worked great.

Superglue used in the same method serves the same purpose.

Yeah i have a Blue Stained Cherry model! I've had it for 12-15 yrs now and it's now my son's

Amazing guitars

guitarplayer1994

bull fighting

bull fighting

I got one of those nut extensions and its still sitting in my tool bag, I'm sure the guy that suggested it to me didn't hear me say I'm using an electric guitar so when I put it on my action was waaay too high and it overlaps on both ends of the fret board lol

I prefer just a slightly higher nut and slightly more relief in my neck because who wants to just play slide without fretting chords? Only lap steel players I guess

Thank you

dont forget to be realistic - you must do some work whatever method you decide on for becoming a guitarist I have spent months studying playing guitar and discovered a fantastic resource at Guitar Guru Method (google it if you are interested)

Thank you John, that is awesome to hear

Bad Wolf 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Bad Wolv I agree

Connor Scott nah Marty Swartz’s is

Please check first if the neck adjustment is right: hold down the string between the first and last fret, then watch the space between the string and the frets in the middle area, like from the 7th to 10th fret. - If it's more than half a millimeter, or 2/10", then the neck needs to be adjusted, and I bet that's the case. If you strung up a classical, or Spanish guitar with steel strings made for Acoustic, Western or electric guitars, you might already have damaged the neck severely, then changing back to low tension nylon strings may save the guitars life. Even on all other models, reducing the tension may be a good idea, especially for beginners, since that also reduces the force needed to press down the strings to play... - If that does not help, the guitars, usually have a socalled truss rod to pull against the string tension. In most cases, you can adjust it by turning a nut on a screw, which can be found either at the headstock, covered with mostly plastic, or at the other end of the neck; turning clockwise will pull the neck back and therefor lower the action, so that's what you'd want. But: a) get the correct tool for the nut or else you damage it; b) tune the guitar first with the strings of choice, and c) make gentle, small changes, very little, then control if it's getting better, and continue until it's perfect. If you turn the truss rod nut too much, the neck may even bent backward! Then things get even worse, and you absolutely don't want that. - Oh, forgot to say, of course check the tuning after each step, because with the truss rod's tension rising, the pitch also goes up, so tune down accurately. In the end, your guitar should be much nicer to play, though then maybe the frets may need care, too - but that should better be done by a luthier, or at least with great care. - Best success, and more power to you! :)

Of course, if the nut, or as I prefer to call it, the saddle is too high, then of course you can do a nut job (yass!) on it. I'd wrap very fine sand paper around the string that runs through the corresponding groove, then “get into the groove” ;) “and move” (right!) the sandpaper with the string, mainly to make it deeper, not wider... Ah, this'll inspire songwriting folks! ;) Seriously, you should frequently use the uncovered string, held from the nut to the last fret to see if you lowered the action enough, but “never too much” (L.Vandross) - i.e. let at least 1 mm distance between the nut's groove an the first fret! Okay, okay, if you “freak out” (Chic) from just hearing that, or are impatient, then leave it to someone who knows what s/he's doing - better safe than sorry (I think that's a song, too, but can't figure by whom). Cheers! :)

A last word of warning, before you may cause trouble: the truss rod is much more sensible than it looks like, and, handled improperly, can be broken. A costly, and therefore better avoided repair - of course by not damaging anything! ;) As a metal craftsman once put it, „Nach fest kommt ab!“, which means a screw is tight eventually, but breaks if you continue tightening. Sure, if you turn back before it's too much, you may get away with it... With the grooves in the nut job I described in my other posting, it's not that easy: if the action is set too low, strings will buzz in the first frets, unless you set the bridge way higher than regular - which is exactly the opposite of what you want...! So first be sure what you want to do, and how - but I guess that's why you asked instead of trying to solve everything with spoon, kitchen knife and hammer! ;) As I wrote before, power and succes to you, “let the force be within you”...?!

+UprightBassist Thanks for the reply. They are all steel string acoustics: Takamine, Washburn, and a Squire. I didn't really want to mess with the truss rod b/c the necks seem fairly straight. Also, after trying your trick it seems that the strings do seem further from the frets toward the bridge, which is weird considering the action is so high near the 1st couple frets. On the one I've been playing most I've been tuning the guitar down a whole step and then putting a capo on the 2nd fret to bypass those 1st 2. I was going to try and sand down the backside of the nut, but I guess trying to deepen each string slot in the nut might be a better idea. Thx again

It is actually quite easy. Slide chord into the hole, pull out of sound hole, plug into jack. thread back into guitar and jack hole using chord. easy peasy

It might also be because he had to use both his hands. Right to pull in the wire while the left goes inside and makes sure to let in slide to avoid yanking it out

@@jesseroel8362 No m8, you can clearly see when he tries to slip the washer back over, the tape is too wide & the washer doesn't slide easily over the tape, it gets stuck. Once the vid cuts & comes back, that piece of tape is now narrower. He clearly had issues doing it & edited it out.

bad/crappy tuners and/or bad slot in the nut and needs to be replaced. Take it to your local luthier to have it fixed/setup

its a jasmine

Art& Lutherie, they are amazing Canadian guitars :)

8un3zz Tape doesn't stick too wood that well, I'm a carpenter, I would know.

8un3zz congratulations.

8un3zz I can always show you my diploma's, you seem like that type of guy.

Find an odd chunk of foam, and cut it into little cubes that you can cut slots into, and glue the foam around the wires with rubber cement. If the wires still flop around too much in the guitar, you can glue these cubes to the kerfing to secure them, try regular white polyvinyl glue such as Elmer's glue.

8un3zz I been a carpenter for 35 years and never had a problem with electrical tape sticking to wood, the foam work well had to do it to my guitar.

lol..yep ...I use a jewelry's cloth between cleans on the strings, amazing the tarnish it takes off

Be careful of the steel wool around pickups, it makes a mess when it's attracted by the magnets, and it can find its way into pots & switches. If you have a magnetic pickup and/or electronics, mask them off with paper & tape before you get the steel wool going. Steel wool is to electronics what ebony dust is to wood finish products: Contamination.

A magnet is handy for removing steel wool fibers, and so is tape. Use both to get a thorough removal.

wooly willy

For example? I bought an acoustic a while ago and never knew which strings it came with. It sounded very metallic and harsh (but in a good way, great for playing gnarly rock/blues riffs). Now I've put on new strings and it doesn't sound like that anymore.

RCK EMY i am personally using the .11 earnieball for training and some kind of daddario strings for gigs. the earnieballs are softer to the finger whilst the daddario sound better and are 150% of the cost of the earnieball

Isak kerman Thank you for your reply! I will try some daddario 80/20 then, they should be fine

RCK EMY nice all you can do is to find the right strings through trial and error. i have probably tried at least 20 different strings for acoustic and 10 different for electric guitar.

Isak kerman Well.. I'm about to try some Ernie Balls .11 80/20.. Let's see how it goes

I am sure you grabbed one by now. Get the best guitar for the money... meaning forget about the name or the price. Go with sound and playablity.

Going back in time , I would suggest an electric-acoustic yamaha. Their quality always seems to be consistent. I am a beginner with a Seagull -folk acoustic- very good, but a Yamaha sounds much richer and only a few dollars more. Also, don't spend a lot of money until you improve - by then you will know more about what really excites your skills !

Love my Yamaha guitars.

10k?? Buy a Martin D-45, and you won't have to ever buy another acoustic guitar. It's the best production guitar made. Period!!! Plus it will hold its value if you take care of it, unlike other brands.

Yeah, she's beautiful, isn't she? Don't let her die a virgin!

same

Kristus är vår Frälsare, Halleluja I cringe at your homophobia and your spelling

The guitar wasn't built with strings attached, having no strings doesn't damage a guitar. Least not that I have ever seen. Too much tension or too high a gauge, that does. Changes in humidity, hot cars and poor storage is the killer.

Obviously if you want to store it long term without strings releasing tension on the truss rod is a good idea. I tend to store my acoustics tuned to C.

i died too

agreed

Scott is one man and has one man's opinion , however being from a word working back ground I can say that mixing water and wood can cause many problems. Natural oils and wood makes wood happy. I have always used linseed oil on my fret boards.another , mans opinion

I've had a D50 guild for 30 years and only oiled the frets once. or twice, VERY lightly.. I think the 'fret bath' in the video is total overkill, and could potentially raise the grain on the neck. BTW: My Martin D28 is 12 years old and the neck is just fine, no oiling required. Keeping them in a case and not on a stand, really helps preserve the instrument....

You're right, any one at a guitar store that would recommend oiling your fret board is just trying to sell you shit, it's totally unnecessary .

Dirt = Friction. Get a slip in slide and put dirt instead of water. Let me know how it goes.

Watch a baseball game. Those guys slide all over the dirt.

No, in this case it needs to slip evenly while you turn the peg. Dirt will make it jerk unreliably as you tune making it harder to tune properly

but if the field was covered with clean plastic or bone and a lubricant on it they would slide further without much restriction

+Kelly Green they slide to stop without over running the base. that takes friction