setup/gear issue. need advice

gorhrut

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Jun 27, 2013
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spokane, washington
hey. i have a guitar that i bought used. i noticed it had an issue with pinch harmonics on the d string. also if you play it without an amp u can hear some harmonic type stuff going on when just playing normal fretted notes. anyways i can play perfect pinch harmonics on every other string but on the d string you can hear that i attempted a pinch harmonic and then it just dies instantly. i took it in and got it professionally set up and intonated and got a new set of strings but i still have this problem. only thing i can think of is maybe get my frets leveled? idk. i have no clue what to do with this guitar any more. any advice would be greatly appreciated.
 
Im going to talk straight out of my ass but is it possible that the the open d note is hitting the frets and thus mutes the pinch harmonic? That means that the bridge is in the wrong spot and theres really nothing to do about it.