Timeline for Help with intonation on a Fender Squier Strat? Open strings in tune but ALL fretted notes are sharp
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| Nov 2, 2020 at 1:33 | answer | added | Bobby McBride | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 9, 2020 at 8:26 | history | edited | Tetsujin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 9, 2020 at 8:22 | answer | added | Tetsujin | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 8, 2020 at 23:25 | comment | added | leftaroundabout | No intention to be impudent (not so long ago, there was a time when I would also ponder over a 100€ very carefully before spending it), but the hard truth is that below 200$ or so it becomes extremely difficult to get an instrument that's at all usable. | |
| Feb 8, 2020 at 21:44 | comment | added | mkorman | Can you upload a few pictures? one of the whole guitar, one of the bridge and one of the nut? From what you're describing, it looks like the nut might be misaligned. | |
| Feb 8, 2020 at 20:42 | comment | added | Kevin Gonsalves | by ear and by tuner, that's how I'm judging. The open strings are fine. But when I go to play a chord the chords are all out of tune. For instance, the low e is fine, and the g string is fine, they are both in tune with each other when played together openly. but when I fret the low E string at the 3rd fret (G) it is not in tune with the open G string, the fretted note is sharper, and I know this because tuning the open G string up slightly brings it in tune with the fretted note (But this then causes the open G string to be out of tune with the A string lol). | |
| Feb 8, 2020 at 20:11 | comment | added | phoog | How are you judging that the fretted notes are sharp? | |
| Feb 8, 2020 at 20:10 | answer | added | guest | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 8, 2020 at 19:37 | comment | added | Kevin Gonsalves | well that is unfortunately out of the question. Nearest music shop to me charges 100$ for this kind of work, and I simply do not have that and wont have an extra 100 for a good while. Well that, and 100 dollars is more than I paid for the guitar in the first place lol. | |
| Feb 8, 2020 at 19:33 | comment | added | Tetsujin | You don't want to be doing that - especially if you have measured a half inch difference in intonation lengths. You really want to be taking this to a professional… whatever the reason, something is waaaaay out of whack. | |
| Feb 8, 2020 at 19:20 | comment | added | Kevin Gonsalves | would i be able to file the nut down with a nail file possibly? Carpentry jobs are completely out of the question | |
| Feb 8, 2020 at 19:05 | comment | added | Tetsujin | If open is in tune, then every single fret after that is out, the nut is in the wrong place, or is cut a mile too high. It's a carpentry job to fix. | |
| Feb 8, 2020 at 18:59 | comment | added | Kevin Gonsalves | I've never done anything like that before. And I do not have sanding equipment. Am I just eternally doomed to an out of tune guitar then? At least until I can come up with the extra cash to get it set up (which will take a very long while) | |
| Feb 8, 2020 at 18:44 | answer | added | Tim | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 8, 2020 at 18:43 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Sounds like a nut issue - are you up to the task of re-cutting the nut, or removing it & sanding the back? | |
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| Feb 8, 2020 at 18:28 | history | asked | Kevin Gonsalves | CC BY-SA 4.0 |