Prepping Electric for Slide

go here. the vid has a wierd name but shows how. http://www.askcorran.com/flash/chipndales.htm

I know you think its hilarious, but could you stop spamming that in multiple threads?

I was hoping for that video to at least be slightly funny... oh well :roll:

And I was beginning to think this could never happen at GN :roll:

It was bound to pop up eventually.

Having an PRS Santana SE, my electric is equipped with a stop-tail and an action too low to play slide.

Heres a Picture:
http://www.prsguitars.com/showcase/current/santanase_ts.html

The obvious choice is simply raising the action using the two screws attached to the stop-tail; however, this is also how to set up the guitar's intonation. Perhaps I simply don't know enough about guitar intonation's, but how will an incorrectly intonated guitar effect playability.

Thanks

If I were you, I would talk to someone at the store you bought it from, they could probably raise the strings and have it set up properly for not a huge sum of money (if you bought it from the internet or something then find a music store and talk to someone who works there). I don't think that bad intonation will affect the playability of a slide guitar (although I could be wrong), i just think it will sound terrible if you try to fret any notes.

Yeh, that what i think will be the problem, which wouldnt be bad if I had more the one electric, but I dont. It would be nice to alternate between slide and frets whenever, but I am not sure if it is possible with my guitar.

I don't understand why the action is too low. I can play slide on my aucotsic and it has very low action. Have you tried?

I believe you can play slide on a guitar with regular action, its just harder because you can't push down too much or you hit the frets. Since you'd have to be a little more careful, maybe this would help out your technique.

Perhaps i may simply need to get used to the action, but im kind of doubtful. I can play slide on my actoustic fairly well, which I believe to be with low action, but when it comes to that election there is simply too little room for error. Playing one string with the slide may not be too much of a trouble, but when trying to play say the first three strings on that arched bridge the issue comes into play.

I've seen many posts by him that were obvious post counts bumps. I never thought I'd see that here either

If the action's really low and the fretboard's very arched (I can't imagine why anybody ever thought arched fretboards were a good idea), it makes complete 6-string barre chords with the slide difficult, but you seldom want to do that. Typically going to heavier strings, say .011 or .012", will raise the action PLENTY for easy slide playing and keep it frettable. You definitely don't want to raise the strings so much that all you can do is slide. That gets old in a hurry without some fretted stuff mixed in. As you play for a while you'll (hopefully) develop a good positional sense with your sliding hand so that you stop the slide just in the right position without knocking into the fretboard. Then you don't really need heavy, tight strings, or a high action.

Oh yeah: Another way of dealing with the arched fretboard and strings issue is to use a slide with a matching curve. Many wine bottle necks have a concave profile that matches a Fender-style neck perfectly. (Fenders have the most tightly arched fretboards I've seen.)

You could try one of these:

http://www.tonetoys.de/de/Extension_Nut.html