Graph Tech Workshop: Finding the Right Nut for Your Guitar, Bass

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There's a good chance that most builders deliberately target cutting the nut slots just above the fret height solely because

I showed here how I lowered nut slot height due to high action on the first fret of my Yamaha you accurately measure and adjust nut height to the perfect level for the softest feel possible

inventory slot png 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 So then the nut becomes the lowest angle But each fret along that line only needs to clear the fret above it So if all the frets are the same