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I have a brand new (to me) Taylor LKSM-12 that I absolutely love. It plays like absolute butter with the light strings it came with, and to my surprise the light strings still sound pretty good tuned down. However, I am still tempted to put heavy stings on it (tuned down) as the design intended.

Now to the problems: Guitar plays beautifully with crazy low action everywhere except it buzzes and splats out on the 3rd fret of the high E. Obviously this is an important note and very inconvenient. Do you experts think that putting heavier strings (.012-.054) will put just enough more tension on the neck to lift the strings by a hair and potentially solve this buzzing issue? Also, do you think a full tech setup is necessary to redo the nuts slots to accommodate heavier strings?

I'm only hesitant to take it to a pro bc I really don't want the action to change at all besides the string gauge and the buzzing on one fret. Feels like I'm basically just asking for a string change.