can you put nylon strings on a steel string acoustic guitar?

nylon sounds alot better but i want to keep the acoustic i have now. Is it proper to put nylon on an acoustic guitar meant for steel strings?

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Yes you can! The neck of the guitar will be fine if the tension is less (which it is for nylon strings). Knot the nylon strings about 3 times at the end then push through the bridge hole and push the pin down. The guitar will need tuning more regularly but the sound is great especially with a fibreglass bowlback (Martin Smith ?50 from E Bay). Through an amp it is awsome. A cheap fix. PS Don't wind around the winding post too many times as the extra tuning will stretch the strings.

Nylon Strings For Acoustic Guitar

As others have said, it is not recommended because the steel-string neck is meant to handle the tension of steel strings, and nylon strings have much less tension. It won't do any immediate damage, especially if you loosen your truss rod a full turn or two to compensate. But if you keep the nylon strings on for too long your neck may twist or warp irreversibly. I don't recommend doing it, but if you want to try it anyway, get nylon strings with ball ends (Martin makes Darco strings with ball ends, and there are also Black Diamond strings with ball ends). Putting nylon strings on a steel-string guitar is not nearly as bad as putting steel strings on a nylon-string guitar -- whatever you do, don't do that!