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Post subject: Re: nut scratches
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 11:38 am
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jmattis wrote:
Deluxe Matt wrote:
5. If you get your radius cut really well, but they are all a little high, you can shave the bottom by sliding across sand paper glued to a flat surface. (again 1 or 2 swipes then test, so easy to take off more than you expect and get some weird angle) Also again, slow.

This does not apply in nut's nut: pic#4 on the imgur-link shows radiused bottom.
Makes it again a little more difficult.


Good catch, I forgot his nut slot has a radius. I will make myself pay for this ignorance. Bad Matt.

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Post subject: Re: nut scratches
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 10:03 pm
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I installed a brass nut on one of my guitars. True, it didn't come with a radius. So here's what I did.

I used blue tape and covered the top 3 frets all the way around the neck. Then I cut a piece of cloth backed 80-grit paper the width of the 2nd fret space. I wrapped the sand paper around the neck at that spot keeping it tight with my left hand. Then I sanded the underside of the nut focusing on the middle first until I got the radius. As I did it I moved to different spots on the fret space so as not to heat up any one spot by the friction.

After that, I had to keep going taking in account where the depth of the pre cut slots need to end up. I used the old one to compare. I believe I actually had to take more off of the high string side than the low string side.

It took about an hour to do it by hand this way. It was a rather tall piece of brass. But in the end it fit perfectly in the radius slot and the job was complete. It's ok to use the fretboard as your sanding block as long as you don't sand too fast and in one spot. It takes patience.

Just watch tv and keep rubbing your nut back and forth at a medium pace until it gets close to where it needs to finish. Then it takes focus and careful observation to get it to fit in the slot right.

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