How to build a bass guitar – Rough slotting the nut

What you want to achieve is a nut slot depth that will allow the string to poroperly clear the frets when playing the string open (not buzzing

How to build a bass guitar – Rough slotting the nut After many years of making nuts and accepting the pedantic assertion that the nut slot depth must be exactly one half the depth of the

What you want to achieve is a nut slot depth that will allow the string to poroperly clear the frets when playing the string open (not buzzing

yes 77 slot There should be slight clearance between the 1st fret and the string Pop strings that are too high out of their nut slot Take one or more

I bought one of these nut height gauges a couple of years ago and it was one of my best tool investments You can use it to cut the slot depths

guitar nut slot A quick word about creaking guitar G strings: this issue is fading as elephant ivory nuts are fading nut slot Once again: setup is everything (You

Best way to raise a nuts height is to replace the nut with a taller one You can shim a nut upwards in different ways I've actually done this