New to the tele world

[Bruce Kiely]

Try this ......

Big Weapons,

Try striking the 3rd string open and, while it's sounding, press down hard on the string behind the nut. If the resonance goes away, it could be a sign that you don't have enough break angle over the nut. This is a fairly common thing, and can be solved by adding a second string tree for the G and D strings.

If this is not the problem, it could be a couple of other things .....
- possible poorly cut nut slot (string rattling in slot) which may require a new nut
- possible sympathetic truss rod vibration which could mean your truss rod is lying loose and needs to be tightened, or (worst case) could be a detached truss rod (this is really rare, but it did happen to me once, Fender covered it by giving me a new neck under warranty).

But most likely it's the break angle over the nut, easily fixed by adding a string tree .....

Hope this helps .....

Cheers,
BK

 

[lenny]

or even wrapping enuf wraps on the post to make a better angle will often solve that .
wrap it til the string goes to the bottom of the post, on the g string.