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Post by alexkirtley on Apr 7, 2015 20:59:02 GMT
The old nut was shimmed so I decided to make a new one, Ive made several saddles but never a nut, a problem is that the spacing is slightly off, what do you reckon?, close enough to live with or go back to the old one?   |
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Riverman
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Post by Riverman on Apr 7, 2015 21:05:10 GMT
You could probably adapt, but that would bug me.
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Post by alexkirtley on Apr 7, 2015 21:47:50 GMT
distance between 1st & 2nd string: 8mm
distance between 2nd & 3rd string: 7.5mm
distance between 3rd & 4th string: 8mm
distance between 4th & 5th string: 7mm
distance between 5th & 6th string: 7mm
I might have to go back to the shimmed nut and just make a better, wooden shim
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Post by deathbyoatcake on Apr 8, 2015 13:02:42 GMT
Making nuts can be maddening and it would have been good to never start down that road. I've improved with it quite a bit over the fifteen years or so of making them but still manage to botch two in three either initially or when fine-tuning it. The one on my Sigma is better than the factory nut easily, I had some brief smugness/mania about that. But getting the neck and fingerboard edge flush with the nut has been a tricky thing. Doing the slots _without_ my contact lenses and glasses is a must.
What did you use for the slots? I've ended up with a full set of files that suit acoustic and electric guitars but I used to like a credit card with a bevel put in the edge with fine wet and dry paper wrapped round it and I'm sure someone could master the job with needle files if they stuck at it. If you have the nut blank tall enough at the start by the time you've cut the slots you can lean your file sufficiently to correct any spacing issue, sanding off the top of the nut every now and then to make control of the file easier, so you're not having to move it about in an ever deeper slot. If that makes sense - hard to describe something evolved privately as a layman. Weirdly your spacing doesn't look as uneven in the close-up.
It'd be nice not to have to make another but lemon oil soaked into part of my strat's bone nut and it bugs me... A job for this week, wisely switching to Tusq.
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Post by Mike Floorstand on Apr 8, 2015 19:21:47 GMT
I would be inclined to play it for a month or so and see how it feels. Then make another one if it's affecting your playing.
I'm also interested what tools you used for the job? I have a "round tuit" project to fix a new nut on an old 12-string, I have the pre-slotted nut ready but will need some adjustments when I start setting up.
Cheers
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Post by Riverman on Apr 8, 2015 21:40:34 GMT
Whilst I'm happy to tweak a truss rod or sand the underside of a saddle, I've always thought of nut adjustment as a job for those with considerably more skill (and better, more appropriate tools) than me. All credit to anyone with the nerve to go for it, but I'd rather pay my trusted tech and know it'll be done perfectly.
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Jo whoever he is.
