Les Paul Ultra 11

[Kea]

I recently bought a Ultra 11 and had problems with it staying in tune and the G string plays sharp above open tuning, so I bought new strings and put them on but the G string would tune but is sharp on 2nd fret and above. I took it to the dealer they put new strings on it and set it up and said that the G string is not a problem that all strings are a little sharp. Play a D chord it sounds really bad. Is it just an adjustment I'm dealing with? Thanks for your help

[Memphs1978]

sounds like its MIGHT be getting bound up in the nut... take a pincil or some graphite and put in the string groove and see if that helps?

[L1Picker]

It could also be that the nut needs fitted properly. If the nut is too high, it will cause a pronounced sharpening of the notes when fretting them, especially in open positiions, as it requires an exaggerated amount of pressure to get them to fret. When you fret a string at the 3rd fret, there should be a very slight gap between the string and the first fret.

[wrighty3693]

have you considered having your frets leveled? A general problem with guitars is that the frets are not crowned and leveled properly due to factory blemishes due to lack of time and care.

 

Wrighty2012