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A Fast, Easy Way to Fix Your Nut Slot
Guitar World ^ | 2018-10-23 | Staff

Posted on 10/23/2018 8:54:33 PM PDT by Rebelbase

If your guitar's nut slot is cut too deep or shallow, this quick fix can save you both time and money.

Phillip McKnight—whose gear-centric videos we've featured on this here website many a time—recently released a new one that offers a quick and easy fix if your nut slot is cut too deep or shallow.

As it turns out, with just a few easily obtainable tools, you can save yourself some time and money, and fix this issue yourself!

Take a look, and as always, visit Phillip’s YouTube channel for more of his videos.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: doctorshatehim; oneweirdtrick
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To: To-Whose-Benefit?
That’s why you invest in a few small files, or like me, own a set of die makers files.

Y’all need a set of flat, automotive feeler gauges too.

Yeah, I have all that stuff and lots more. I'm a lifelong tool and die machinist, now retired, as well as a pro level, (working) bassist\guitarist. Your tips are spot on but I never want to use a file on a slot. For the nut I will lap them on a flat surface or grind stone if I need them shorter always trying to maintain a perfectly flat bottom. I'm talking about setting the nut, not cutting the string slots. For that I use a feeler gauge and a lot of exp. (smile)

41 posted on 10/23/2018 11:44:59 PM PDT by Bullish (I'm not going to say "I told you so" about FaceBook... I'm just going to put it in my tagline.)
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To: Rebelbase; Lazamataz; Slings and Arrows

42 posted on 10/24/2018 1:13:02 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Bullish

Yup (smile) but we don’t always have the luxury of being the 1st one to have some old collectible mathom land on our bench.

Gotta go in and clean up someone else’s mess. And sometimes that was a Fender style with binding on it and old glue already in it. Then I had to use the flat/90 degree chisel end on a file (with a q-tip of lacquer thinner) to dig it out 1st.

Had to dig old glue out of plenty of fret slots on Pauls and such too. Thinner, an exacto blade, and patience.

I think it’s funnier than all get out to see “experts” on youtube go on about how all the good “tonewood” was used up years ago.

To the best of my knowledge the Good Lord hasn’t reached down and changed the genes in mahogany and ebony trees in the last 20 years. As for Rosewood there’s at least 22 species going under that name. Cut it right, store it right , let it unwind and reach the right moisture content and you can build top end guitars that sound just as - “Oooh. This one’s Got that VooDoo” - as anything made in the 50s and 60s.


43 posted on 10/24/2018 1:14:18 AM PDT by To-Whose-Benefit? (It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
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To: Rebelbase

You posted this JUST for the title, DINT’cha’ ?


44 posted on 10/24/2018 2:11:36 AM PDT by knarf
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To: SamAdams76

I’m only here for the pictures of the nut sluts.


45 posted on 10/24/2018 2:23:26 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: Bullish

I broke the nut on my Strat too. It was a shame really, I really liked how the strings felt with it.


46 posted on 10/24/2018 2:36:19 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Still Thinking
I hate when my nut slot is the wrong depth.

Like my dad used to say “These jeans remind me of a cheap hotel — no ballroom!”

LBJ ordering pants.

47 posted on 10/24/2018 2:51:59 AM PDT by KevinB (If I'm ever arrested, I'm switching parties.)
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To: Rebelbase

Sounds painful.


48 posted on 10/24/2018 3:04:40 AM PDT by dangus ("The floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of bishops" -- St. Athanasius)
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To: SamAdams76

I’m right there with you. I knew the article was about guitars only due to the preview text that appears below the title. Then I thought, “Wow. Now there’s a title that will be subject to misinterpretation!”


49 posted on 10/24/2018 4:09:54 AM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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To: Rebelbase

I guess front hole wasn’t going over so well. On to the next euphemism.


50 posted on 10/24/2018 4:16:34 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Rebelbase

Don’t put your drawers on backwards.


51 posted on 10/24/2018 4:18:36 AM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: Bullish
Try a Brass guitar nut. I think Gibson makes a titanium nut, and Aluminum has been used for years. There is also Zero Fret option. I can't play a lick but I have watched a lot of luthiers instead of news lately.
52 posted on 10/24/2018 5:37:13 AM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: Rebelbase

If there’s a guitar ping list throw me in too


53 posted on 10/24/2018 6:33:12 AM PDT by backspace (Please don't laugh at my tagline)
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To: Rebelbase

Someone have a FReeper guitar ping list?

If there is one, I would like to be on it.


54 posted on 10/24/2018 7:28:48 AM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: Rebelbase

TTIWWP.

5.56mm


55 posted on 10/24/2018 7:35:02 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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56 posted on 10/24/2018 7:40:44 AM PDT by Rebelbase (..)
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To: Rebelbase

I thought you said “nut slut.”

My bad.

5.56mm


57 posted on 10/24/2018 7:45:16 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: SamAdams76
OK, I admit clicking into this thread based on the title alone.

Same

58 posted on 10/24/2018 7:46:05 AM PDT by TruthWillWin ([[[MSM]]])
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To: Rebelbase; Skooz

I would sign up myself.


59 posted on 10/24/2018 7:53:25 AM PDT by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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To: Skooz; waterhill; mitch5501; OrioleFan; jdsteel; Mama Shawna; Ignatz; Bullish; wastedyears; ...

Guitar and Bass ping list testing!


60 posted on 10/24/2018 8:21:37 AM PDT by Rebelbase (..)
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