Nuts - driving me nuts!

Ancient1

My geetar came with one of those rare nuts with slots too tight to accomodate even 10s.

I bought some nut slotting tools from this dude, and they worked quite well, but before I got the order, I went barbarian on the deep E slot. It's an uneven cut and I wanted to fix it with the new set of files but I ended up cutting too deep. Now the low E is too low and too muddy and not even raising it at the saddle can get rid of the nastiness.

I'm going to replace it with the Tusq nut but then these eNut yokes caught my eye...

Any thoughts?

Doctor J

Get a plain old bone nut... twas good enough for Stevie Ray and Jimi so you better believe it's good enough for you

I put one of those fancy graphite nuts on the Schecter a while back, but it allows vibrations to pass behind the nut with the result that any time I'd play open E there would be an annoying overtime as if you strummed behind the nut. Bunch of arse.

Ancient1

Bone can have inconsistent density though and I hear it can be a pain to file properly...

Graphite can apparently muffle the highs but I haven't heard of any problems with Tusq.

What a goddamn headache...

Johnny Storm

I'm no expert (as you may have noticed ) but per my reading of the fenderforum its apparently quite easy and effective to build up a too deep nut slot with a mixture of baking soda and superglue.

PS I've never done it myself. :rolleyes:

Obviously being the fenderforum there's a lot of debate about whether you need vintage baking soda or not.....


EDIT: link

Ancient1

Baking soda??

Thanks for further complicating my life, Johnny.

I will try raising it with superglue though...could just work.