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Guitar chord forum - chordie → Electric → String Gauge and Intonation
Just restrung the Brawley with D'Addario regular lights 0.010 - 0.046 and checked intonation. E B G D are now true but A is only just and E is still a bit sharp even with the bridge right back at maximum. Any ideas?
Can I compensate but getting a thicker string gauge in future? Time for a luthier? Learnt alot from this guitar and my pitch awareness has come on alot or am I getting oversensitive?
Just restrung the Brawley with D'Addario regular lights 0.010 - 0.046 and checked intonation. E B G D are now true but A is only just and E is still a bit sharp even with the bridge right back at maximum. Any ideas?
Can I compensate but getting a thicker string gauge in future? Time for a luthier? Learnt alot from this guitar and my pitch awareness has come on alot or am I getting oversensitive?
Not a trained luthier but do know my way around guitars. What type of brige or tremolo do you have. Either way get your tuner and hit an harmonic octave on your twelveth fret of the string (b & high e although not simaltaniously). Turn the screw on the saddle of that string until it come in to tune and repeat to the other string that is out. Your guitar is not set up for that gauge of strings that's why your out of intonation. If you you need a hand email me.
Bootlegger.
Bootlegger guitars.
Thanks Boot, I'm resolved to try a different brand of strings soon, the d'Addarios didn't seem as good as the last set I bought, even the string ball-end colouring seemed off, are there fakes about?
The happy ending to this story. I restrung with Elixir 9-42s last night and got the intonation spot on (bridge pieces still very far back but OK). I did find sharpness depends on how hard you press the fret. Good advice for playing that, I'm now trying to play more gently. Will report of the Elixirs are really 'anti-rust' in a year's time...
Guitar chord forum - chordie → Electric → String Gauge and Intonation
