Hello, this is Rick Andrews owner of Andrews Guitar and a long time member of EvO:R. This section has been put together to help you with your guitar related questions. I did not agree to do this so I could simply plug my guitars, I did this so you could finally have answers to many of those burning questions you may have had about your guitar.

Man this sounds really messed up. Putting the match stick should have made it worse instead of better. Did you try replacing the string? Someone may have put the bridge on too far toward the pickups but that would make all the strings do the same thing.

It would be hard for me to say for sure unless I could work with it myself. My first thought is take the strings off and then take the bridge off and see if there are extra screw holes where someone moved it.

Someone also may have replaced the neck and used a wrong model neck that is from another guitar where the screw holes may have changed the distance of the mounting just enough to throw off the 6th string.

If your bridge is moved back further from the pickups and remounted making the total scale longer then you can get the extra space needed to adjust the string intonation properly. Then of course you will have to readjust all the other strings to match. The total distance from the front edge of the nut to the E 1st string saddle should be 25 1/2". That will tell you the story there.