It sounds like you have taken your guitar to the correct person. I am glad it will all be resolved for you soon Jean and you can get back to the important stuff.......Playing!! He is doing a proper setup, makes me wonder why this wasn't done at the shop when they changed the guage of your strings???Hi Neil and everyone on this string!
I think everyone was right on in their answers and suggestions and I really do appreciate all your input. I decided that perhaps taking the guitar back to its place of purchase was not the best idea. So I did a little research and found a luthier/stringed instrument repair person who comes highly recommended and very close to here. It's funny because it seems that what I was complaining about was not my imagination. I felt that with heavier strings, my guitar came back bad and was getting worse. (How could that be possible???) He explained that since the guitar was not set up for the heavier strings that the neck was moving!
We talked for about twenty minutes and his plan of action is continue with the lighter strings, adjust the neck, lower the bridge a bit and file the grooves (?) in the nut so that if I want the heavier strings at some point he would only have to adjust the truss rod. (I didn't even know where that was!) His feeling was that for my playing level, working on technique was more important than bigger sound. I think I agree with that. So . . .
I'll be without the guitar until Friday, but I'm holding out hope because we talked about a lot of things that were giving me problems and he said that most of these should clear up. (Almost sounds like the guitar will play itself! :laugh: )
So thanks again, and I'll be ready to report what improvements I find.
Jean
The truss rod runs the length of the neck in case you were wondering. It is a kind of metal bar with an adjuster at either the sound hole end, or the stock end. It is buried inside the neck.
Tom N.