My adventures into cheapo guitars continues and, $@!& it makes me miss my Fenders, Guilds, and Gibsons at home.

So I visited a local Arab Bazaar and grabbed a single cutaway acoustic. It's handmade, everything is really unique on it, whatever material that was used on the nut is also used for the tuning knobs and on the bridge, it's crafted from a powerful smelling wood, has a really dark fretboard with an interesting grain, god knows what either are, and has الفأس on the headstock. It cost me the equivalent of $9, so I wasn't really expecting much.

That being said it has atrocious buzzing on the first and second frets, making anything on those two absolutely unplayable. I'm thinking it might be a high third fret, but I'm no expert. I don't have a ton of hope of getting this thing in playing order, but hopefully.

_________________

Try the credit card trick, run a card along the fretboard any high frets will give it a rocking motion. Does the guitar have an adjustable truss rod? If so give it a little more relief. hth.

_________________
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancin'

wat dharma said...

_________________
blues - its a religion...

+1

Incorrectly-slotted nut.

Arjay

_________________
"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY