I had great success using plastic playing cards as a gauge between the fret and the string. The distance of the string to the neck became immaterial . John. C
Re: The Nut. I don’t understand why people don’t just knock off the nut and sand the bottom down instead of using special files? (The stings should sit at the height of a fret wire as if it were a fret wire.) The pressure of the strings (at the nut) should hold it back on, but use a bit of glue to keep it from moving from side to side.
I've done literally hundreds of string action adjustments on countless different instruments and i can tell you this; every job is different and there are always several different ways to do each one. Sometimes i will sand the bottom, sometimes i will file the slots and sometimes i will make an entirely new nut from scratch. It all depends on what each instrument requires and i will base my decision on experience.
I had great success using plastic playing cards as a gauge between the fret and the string. The distance of the string to the neck became immaterial . John. C
See StewMac's nut files and string action gauge for projects like this.
Re: The Nut.
I don’t understand why people don’t just knock off the nut and sand the bottom down instead of using special files? (The stings should sit at the height of a fret wire as if it were a fret wire.) The pressure of the strings (at the nut) should hold it back on, but use a bit of glue to keep it from moving from side to side.
I've done literally hundreds of string action adjustments on countless different instruments and i can tell you this; every job is different and there are always several different ways to do each one. Sometimes i will sand the bottom, sometimes i will file the slots and sometimes i will make an entirely new nut from scratch. It all depends on what each instrument requires and i will base my decision on experience.
don't you think you should have checked the height before you loosened the strings?
I've probably set up over 1000 instruments. I've got a fair idea what I'm doing
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