Accidentally came across your video and makes me feel so much better. Picked a new SLG200N a couple days ago and had to trim 1.5-2mm off the saddle to lower the action and noticed the curve immediately! Why did Yamaha use a saddle with a curve?? Great vid, thank you
Hi, your video is excellent and I think this is exactly the reason for the problem that I’m having with uneven sound on my SLG200N. Thank you very much for creating this guide! I tried to go to your website to read the more detailed repair instructions but the website won’t load. Is the website still functional?
Thanks for the info; the production quality on your videos is excellent. I’m assuming in the video you used the original saddle the guitar came with. Did you manage however to identify which product to use if one did decide to replace it? I have an SLG200NW and the length of the original saddle is 82mm. The ones from GraphTech and most of the other ones I can find are at most 80mm. I have a feeling this really shouldn’t matter and I should just go ahead and get one, but the fact that downward pressure on the piezo is a concern is giving me pause. I am in fact seeing a few 82mm long saddles but they’re elusive and are all made of plastic (though of course so is the original one). What’s your take on this? Regardless, thanks again for the video and detailed blog post.
Hi thanks for watching! I’d not overthink the extra 2mm (1mm on each side actually). On my guitar the piezo doesn’t extend the full 82mm. I’ve used graph tech saddles in my other guitars and find them a wonderful product in that the difference is tangible. However i suspect the effect would be less so on this Yamaha given the non traditional construction (lack of sound board etc). TLDR I wouldn’t fret it. Just go with what’s available and make some music. 😉😁
@@homecookedmelodies Thank you for the encouragement. I should say that my preoccupation with this subject has mostly to do with the fact that pretty much every review about the 200NW complains that its default action is set too high. (I’m not sure if you felt this was the case on your 200N too.) Now I don’t know if this is Yamaha being overzealous about recreating an “authentic classical guitar experience” or these folks coming from a steelstring background and finding it hard to adapt. Personally I don’t particularly mind the action at all, but this is my first “classical” guitar and I don’t really have a practical frame of reference. This is also why I’m reluctant to modify the original saddle. The fact remains that at the moment the action (at the 12th fret) is 3.6mm at the high E and 4.1mm at the low E. Opinions about what the action on a classical guitar should be seem to be all over the place, and I don’t see anyone talking specifically about these nylon-string SLGs. So as someone who has experience in both these areas, what do you feel is the most satisfactory action on one of these instruments? Thanks again.
Try that on a 200S. Where the high E hits the bridge it then takes a sharp left 45• so it isn't pulling down like it should but pulling left and down. Sad
Accidentally came across your video and makes me feel so much better. Picked a new SLG200N a couple days ago and had to trim 1.5-2mm off the saddle to lower the action and noticed the curve immediately! Why did Yamaha use a saddle with a curve?? Great vid, thank you
Hi, your video is excellent and I think this is exactly the reason for the problem that I’m having with uneven sound on my SLG200N. Thank you very much for creating this guide!
I tried to go to your website to read the more detailed repair instructions but the website won’t load. Is the website still functional?
Thank you I was hoping this was a 200s demo
Thanks for the info; the production quality on your videos is excellent. I’m assuming in the video you used the original saddle the guitar came with. Did you manage however to identify which product to use if one did decide to replace it?
I have an SLG200NW and the length of the original saddle is 82mm. The ones from GraphTech and most of the other ones I can find are at most 80mm.
I have a feeling this really shouldn’t matter and I should just go ahead and get one, but the fact that downward pressure on the piezo is a concern is giving me pause.
I am in fact seeing a few 82mm long saddles but they’re elusive and are all made of plastic (though of course so is the original one).
What’s your take on this?
Regardless, thanks again for the video and detailed blog post.
Hi thanks for watching! I’d not overthink the extra 2mm (1mm on each side actually). On my guitar the piezo doesn’t extend the full 82mm. I’ve used graph tech saddles in my other guitars and find them a wonderful product in that the difference is tangible. However i suspect the effect would be less so on this Yamaha given the non traditional construction (lack of sound board etc). TLDR I wouldn’t fret it. Just go with what’s available and make some music. 😉😁
@@homecookedmelodies Thank you for the encouragement.
I should say that my preoccupation with this subject has mostly to do with the fact that pretty much every review about the 200NW complains that its default action is set too high.
(I’m not sure if you felt this was the case on your 200N too.)
Now I don’t know if this is Yamaha being overzealous about recreating an “authentic classical guitar experience” or these folks coming from a steelstring background and finding it hard to adapt.
Personally I don’t particularly mind the action at all, but this is my first “classical” guitar and I don’t really have a practical frame of reference. This is also why I’m reluctant to modify the original saddle.
The fact remains that at the moment the action (at the 12th fret) is 3.6mm at the high E and 4.1mm at the low E.
Opinions about what the action on a classical guitar should be seem to be all over the place, and I don’t see anyone talking specifically about these nylon-string SLGs. So as someone who has experience in both these areas, what do you feel is the most satisfactory action on one of these instruments?
Thanks again.
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Try that on a 200S. Where the high E hits the bridge it then takes a sharp left 45• so it isn't pulling down like it should but pulling left and down. Sad
However, no piezos were featured in this video 😁