Quote:
Originally Posted by John Arnold
In my experience, guitars that have equal spacing to the edge have one of two characteristics:
1) They require more attention to keep from pushing the string off the edge. This is especially true if the fingerboard has a severe radius.
OR....
2) The strings are unnecessarily too closely-spaced at the nut.
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On second read, your second point registered:
1. The neck of my Gurian guitar has always been too narrow for me.
2. The nut width is halfway between his infamous 1-5/8" and a typical 1-11/16"
3. Both E strings maintain equal spacing along the full length of the fretboard.
So maybe I should try
a new nut with slightly wider string spacing (and equal
spaces between all strings). The result would
appear more like what's depicted in this thread's illustrations (less set-in at the nut, more set-in at the neck joint) but I wonder if both E strings will then be too close to the fretboard edges near the nut.
I hammer-on and pull-off that unwound e string quite a bit in first position, and that could be a bugger. On the other hand, I go thumb-over-top a lot for the Low E string, and that could be
a delight.
