Nylon Strings
can you put nylon strings on a steel string acoustic guitar?
nylon sounds alot better but i want to keep the acoustic i have now. Is it proper to put nylon on an acoustic guitar meant for steel strings?
As others have said, it is not recommended because the steel-string neck is meant to handle the tension of steel strings, and nylon strings have much less tension. It won’t do any immediate damage, especially if you loosen your truss rod a full turn or two to compensate. But if you keep the nylon strings on for too long your neck may twist or warp irreversibly.
I don’t recommend doing it, but if you want to try it anyway, get nylon strings with ball ends (Martin makes Darco strings with ball ends, and there are also Black Diamond strings with ball ends).
Putting nylon strings on a steel-string guitar is not nearly as bad as putting steel strings on a nylon-string guitar — whatever you do, don’t do that!
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