Originally Posted by: TwoHoot

@ Carl King

Here is a picture of my guitar neck at the nut. The new nut was 43 mm while the neck is only 38 mm. I started filing back the ends but decided to wait and get advice. The old nut put the strings closer together to get more space at the edge of the neck.

I am at Chap 2, Lesson 5 of the beginner course with Lisa McCormick. I have been trying to get my fingers in condition and accustomed to the new demands. I can now keep the 1st and 6th strings on the fret bars but have not learned to fret the interior strings to get clear tone on all. More practice will clear that up I think.

Hey Two Hoot, I can see those strings are SUPER close to the edges of the neck, and that's going to be difficult for sure. Any problem you have with keeping the strings on the neck isn't the result of your technique. That would be hard for anyone. After a little while, you might decide you want to go back to a 38mm nut and deal with the tighter string spacing instead of the fretting problem.

I'm curious, do you have a full length photo of that guitar? I'm interested in what the body looks like, since it has nylon strings...

-Carl.