Nylon experiment ( NOT those ones...)

[Loki]

There is a nice S25J nylon string in the online shop at the moment, which I am NOT going to look at.

Even great gits are useless to dead people She Who Must Be Obeyed advises me

What I was wondering was, I have an S10c with a 48 mm nut and generous string spacing. It's a beautifully light little guitar, and while I understand different bracings etc., what would it sound like with a set of ball end nylon strings on it?

Has anybody here tried anything like that?

Confession time. There was an Americana slope shoulder dread in the shop recently, which very unusually, wasn't a sunburst. Made me wonder if it could be snuck, undetected into the current stable of guitars here...

Has anybody here tried anything like that?

[singlereed]

I bought the D300B Black slope dread that was in the shop a few months back. Awesome axe. Haven't tried nylon-ing up a steel string but did have an A25J that is also a great guitar. Decided to stick with the steel strings myself - I do little enough practice as it is and couldn't really keep my limited chops up on both.

[JB]

Nylon strings on a steel string will not sound good. Steel string tops have much stiffer bracing to cope with the higher tension from steel strings so in-turn the soundboard needs the extra energy to drive it properly.

You'll also probably find the neck wanting to relax and straighten due to the lower tension.

All in all not a great experiment to try

[Loki]

Thanks JB.

That's pretty much what I reckoned, and no way am I going to allow the neck on my lovely wee S10 to do a back flip.

I'll just have to go down the bookshop and look for a paper back called "How to give your head peace and achieve true contentment"

[SimonC]

"How to give your head peace and achieve true contentment"

That'll be under FICTION.