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Carl King
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Carl King
GuitarTricks Video Director
Joined: 10/08/07
Posts: 520
06/23/2020 11:17 pm

Hey Holly,

I would bet you could easily solve this by simply raising the action a little bit on the bridge.

I'm using this one as a reference:

https://reverb.com/item/830093-1964-hofner-173-vintage-electric-guitar-red-croc-selmer-super-3-w-510-pickups

Assuming this is what your guitar has, if you turn those slightly (the little nut with ridges) it will raise and lower the bridge. All you would need to do is right the one on the right up slightly (the one under the higher strings). They might be pretty hard to turn without loosening the strings since there's so much tension down there. The Les Paul here also has these. I'll post more about it in a bit, but this might point you in the right direction...

-Carl.


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