set up is often overlooked on an inexpensive giutar..you really can't make a 300$ guitar sound like a 3000$ guitar..but you can make it play just about as easy. before you adjust the neck truss..put a capo on the 1st frett and then hold the E strings {one at a time} down at the 13th frett..there should be a gap of about .005 to .010.or about the thickness of 2 sheets of paper in the middle.. step 2...with the capo still on...measure the strings at the 12th frett..5/64 should be safe..you can go a bit lower..for a ballpark get 8 poker playing cards..that will be damn close to what your looking for..if your strings are higher than that keep adding cards untill they just fill the space..now the tricky part..see how many cards you added..double this amount..thats how much needs to be removed from the bottom of the saddle..let's say you had to add 3 cards..then you need to lower the saddle by 6 cards...leave the capo on and loosen the strings,remove the pins and the string from the bridge..the strings will be held in place by the capo..the saddle should lift out..take a sharp pencil and use the cards 6 in my example.lay the cards on a flat serface and hold the saddle up to the edge...make a line.a sheet of 220 grit wet dry paper works just fine..on a flat surface put the paper and use the side of a CD case or some other square edge as a giude to keep the saddle upright ..make sure that the saddle is dead flat and square when your done..this will make an amazing improvement in your guitar..now step 3 is going to mean a trip to the guitar store...take a look at how much the string needs to move from open to the first fret...when you hold the string down at the first fret..look at how far it needs to move to be down at the second fret..if we use the poker cards again...you will see that it is about 3 cards fron ths string to the open first fret...and less than 2 cards at the second fret once the string is held down at the first fret..it doesen't seem like much but that's 50% lower,,,if you do the rest i bet you can get the shop to file the nut for a sixpack..or maybe just a good line of BS..ie sob story..lol...you will love your very much
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