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Originally Posted by ljguitar
Hi emtsteve
The string spacing on a Seagull 1.8" nut is exactly the same as 1¾" nut string spacing.
The 1.8" is misleading…it is arrived at because Seagull (and other Godin product lines) are produced in French Speaking Quebec, and built to metric measures (44.72mm)
When they convert the metric figure to US/Imperial measure it comes out 1.8" instead of 1.75" - but the strings are still spaced to a standard 1¾" spacing.. There is not really wiggle room to cut a new nut and try to widen the strings (.05" - 5/100 inch) split up among 6 strings is pretty small.
It was attempted several times in years past by experimenters here on the forum and just resulted in either the 1st or 6th string being constantly drug over the edge of the finger board.
A better solution might be to buy a 12 string with a wide fingerboard, and have a new nut made for it and string is as a 6 string guitar.
Or the original poster may want to try-out a 1¹³⁄₁₆" spacing, or full 2" (or wider) nylon string classical guitar.
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Thanks for the education Larry. I still stand by my suggestion to try the Seagull. It should be quite a bit easier to fret than the Yamaha he has now. Or not, but worth trying, along with other 1 3/4” and wider nut guitars.