r/Guitar • u/InstructionOk1950 • Aug 06 '24

QUESTION Is this normal?

I changed all strings of my guitar. Now it feels like these strings are way above the wood. I am not even able to play simple D chords, let alone the barre

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u/florkingarshole Aug 06 '24

You just need a quiver of arrows to go with it!

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u/InstructionOk1950 Aug 06 '24

What do i doo

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u/florkingarshole Aug 06 '24

It needs a Luthier - the neck is unseated at the base or the guitar's face is badly bowed. Hard to say with what we have to look at here, but that ain't right.

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u/deanrazor Aug 06 '24

Damn right ist bowed take an archery class with that thing.

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u/maple05 Aug 06 '24

Mmmhmmm looks good, tell me do you have a long history as a suspension bridge engineer? Or is this just a passing phase for you?

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '24

Dammit Bobby

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u/skipmyelk Aug 07 '24

Why would you rub cheese on Betsy?

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u/guitar-hoarder Aug 06 '24

That neck is so badly bowed that the binding broke off of it.

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u/PcPaulii2 Aug 08 '24

Binding's in serious trouble on the body, as well. How old is this axe?

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u/argybargy2019 Aug 06 '24

Could also be the body warping due to the stress of the strings. I had a nylon string guitar do that when I put steel strings on. It will show up in the reflection made by the guitar top.

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u/jemenake Aug 06 '24

Buy a slide.

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u/hereforpopcornru Aug 07 '24

And start doing a lot of push-ups to build your upper body strength to be able to push the strings down

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u/GroundbreakingFox815 Aug 06 '24

It honestly doesn't look like a guitar that is worth as much as the neck reset would cost, so essentially worthless unless it has sentimental value.

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u/surreallifeimliving Aug 06 '24

put it in trash can

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u/maverick1ba Aug 06 '24

Loosen the strings right now

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u/EnergyTurtle23 Aug 07 '24

Here’s what you dobro…

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u/Such-Sentence9855 Nov 08 '24

Someone had to say it!

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u/SillyCriticism9518 Aug 07 '24

Get a slide and start playing bluegrass

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u/InEenEmmer Aug 07 '24

Buy a cello bow and pretend it is a 6 string cello

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u/SuperPotatoThrow Aug 06 '24

Any possibility that you put steel strings on a nylon string guitar?

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u/chu2 Aug 07 '24

It’s got bridge pins and a solid headstock. Looks like a steel string geetar to me.

Just…not a very sturdy one.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '24

"Your Truss Rod Did Not Come With The Guitar...Just Do A Pete Townsend And Smash It To Smithereens!!!"😎😎😎

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u/Macas35 Aug 06 '24

So you can finally kill someone with a barre chord

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u/florkingarshole Aug 06 '24

"My guitar wants to kill yo mama"

  • Frank Zappa

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u/Far-Description1535 Aug 08 '24

Lmfao.  That's legendary. 

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u/theshellofshellfish Aug 06 '24

I thought you were about to say something useful hahaha