what is a good pre slotted replacment drop in nut for a Lefty 2006 mim strat?

Perhaps any nut that might fit a righty. You might be able to turn it upsidedown and smooth off the edges.

Hi guys: very respectfully, a right-handed pre-slotted nut won't work on a left-handed instrument. Not only the top of the nut but the bottoms of the slots will be angled the wrong way. If you tried filing the slots to swap the breaking angle around you'd find by the time you were done they'd become too low for the frets.

And in any case if you owned nut files for doing that job you'd just make yourself a new nut from a blank instead.

Help is on hand, however. Graphtech do a left-handed version of their excellent pre-slotted TUSQ nut. Available here:

http://www.wdmusic.com/tusq_strat_slott ... _hand.html

Or in black:

http://www.wdmusic.com/black_tusq_slott ... lefty.html

I've used TUSQ nuts several times and found them excellent. Usually only a very little bit of sanding of the bottom of the nut is required to get it to exactly the right height, and a couple of times I've fitted them and found no adjustments to make whatsoever. Recommended.
Cheers - C

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+1

By far the best nuts IMO.

Andy

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Thanks guys that is the nut i was looking at but was not sure. The G string slot on the one i have now is to deep and the string rattles. As soon as i fret the first fret it goes away. Thanks for the link Ceri I didnt know they had it in black now i can get one for the 95 mim squier series im building. It will be completly black with a maple neck. Thanks again to all.

Thanks for the correction, I see what you mean (the back angle of the nut). My mistake. I'm a righty. I guess a blank graphite nut may be best.

Tusq and Graphtech make pre-slotted nuts, but any pre-slotted nut is not intended to be a simple drop-in replacement. It will need some work to get everything right. Anyway, I don't like the pre slotted nuts, usually because the string spacing is too narrow and the guitar doesn't feel like it did with the old nut. Just buy a blank nut and either learn the art of nut making, or pay the little fee to have a luthier take the blank and "clone" the old original nut! Cheap plastic nuts are good for learning this task, and is usually what the stock nut was to begin with. The Tusq nuts I use seem to do much better though, they help the open strings ring out as much as the fretted notes!

I'm with Steve on this one. You'll never simply drop one in and have it play right. Consider Fman, that guitar of yours has had years of wear on the frets. If the frets are anything like the ones on my Squier Series, they are probably so low they don't register on your fingers anymore.
Just putting a preslotted blank on that will cause terrible intonation problems on the low frets.
Don't be tricked into paying more for a bone nut either. It has no effect on fretted notes and makes only a tiny difference to open strings. The black greasy stuff is the way to go and will look better with a all black guitar.

Though just to repeat myself, I really have had that happen a couple of times. Nice when it works out that way.

Much more usual to have to make at least small adjustments though. For exactly the reasons you mentioned.

(By now of course, our pre-cut nut days are well behind us, huh Nick? )

Cheers - C

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Yeah and the OP would likely get away with a precut nut on his 06 MIM. I thought he was talking of his 95 SS. It's all fret condition dependant.
Dunno why thought it was his 95, it's not even like I drink at this time of year.

Earvana reckon they size theirs to slot straight onto a guitar with new medium jumbos. From what I remember of the blurb.

+2, I had a TUSQ nut installed on my Musikraft neck for my Tele

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