Hi Nevin: nah, you'll be fine. Carry on...!

Cheers - C

The obvious answer is... try it and see! You've got nothin to lose

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You should be okay. I did see a guy one time who put 12's on his guitar without filing the grooves in the nut to accomodate the larger strings and broke the nut.

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I have a nut question... is there anyway to know if the nut bottom is curved of flat without removing the nut?

If anyone knows, do late '90's MIM strats have a curved or flat bottom... what about the early '92 SRV's?

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I would think you should probably be ok...as others have said, I would try it before getting a new nut installed, however what I would be concerned with is buzzing around the first or second fret.

In theory if the nut was cut properly for the larger strings, then the width of the slot will be bigger but it shouldn't be any "deeper" and the strings shouldn't bottom out but... This is assuming the nut was cut properly (or at all) for the larger strings. This also assumes that the larger strings didn't cutter deeper in to the nut from normal playing. Try it...if it works, then great but if you start getting some string buzz you may need to get a new nut.



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Jim

I would think you should probably be ok...as others have said, I would try it before getting a new nut installed, however what I would be concerned with is buzzing around the first or second fret.

In theory if the nut was cut properly for the larger strings, then the width of the slot will be bigger but it shouldn't be any "deeper" and the strings shouldn't bottom out but... This is assuming the nut was cut properly (or at all) for the larger strings. This also assumes that the larger strings didn't cutter deeper in to the nut from normal playing. Try it...if it works, then great but if you start getting some string buzz you may need to get a new nut.



Peace,
Jim

When i bought my strat everything was good but the high E string started poppnig off if i hit it too hard, thats what made me realize that it was just a typo in the makings of it, i just did a ghetto fix up and put a sharp knife into the string placing and sliced it for more room, so smaller strings will be fine, in anycase bigger would be worse thats when i would buy a new nut itself

If anything a nut cut for thicker strings should be higher than a sting cut for a lower depth.
The basis of a good nut is the front to back angle of the string slots at whatever depth they need to be at. I wish I could articulate how to work that angle out, but i cant. Its something you get a feel for.

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