If your tuners were the problem, you'd expect to have slipping which would mean out of tune all along the fret board. So even the individual notes near the first few frets on the plain strings are coming in fine? You said chords are not coming in 'right' at that position, and it only takes one string to ruin the party. Although I believe I've covered all the bases, anyone have a suggestion? I'm about to pull off all the strings and start over with a new set even though the ones on it now are quite new, just to see if that has any effect. Have used this same gauge string for years, due to creeping arthritis, on all my electrics. I've used GFS tuners of a similar type on other guitars without any problem, so I doubt if it's the new tuners. The action is not too high on this guitar as I set my guitars up with fairly low, comfortable action. The major offenders seem to be the G, B, and sometimes high E strings. When playing first position chords will sound flat or sharp. When playing a straight barre chord will sound in tune. Strings will read in tune with electronic tuner (checked with more than one), will sound in tune when striking open unfretted strings. Just to see if it helped, I replaced the stock butterfly string trees with a set of Fender roller string trees. Did all the requirements, stretched the strings, checked and readjusted the intonation, checked the string radius, strings are not binding at the nut or anywhere else. Put on a fresh set of Ernie Ball Hybrid Slinkys (9-46), my usual gauge. Recently put a set of GFS tuners (Gotoh style 14:1) on my MIK Fender Squier Series strat, 1992, CN serial #, made by Cort.
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