Hm. I never knew for what do you need those lubricants etc. I musta had at least two dozen guitars or various type and quality, bone, graphite plastic, you name it nuts, and done a hundred gigs in my time minimum, and I never ever had any problem with staying in tune with any of my axes, except when I've broken a string on a floyd axe. And a few axes which had real bad tuners, but those were quickly replaced by Gotohs. I played my Gibson with original Kluson vintages that everyone hates for 13 years and sometimes played two gigs in a row and never even touched them tuners.
I just yank the hell out of the strings a few times when I put them on, and all I ever have to retune until I put new strings on comes from temperature, i.e. if I leave my guitar in a colder place it'll be off etc. But NEVER while playing. And I think I do pretty much bending and pretty extreme bending too. Just last practice I managed to get my B string somehow hooked over the E and catching on a fret end below the neck, don't ask me how. But even that didn't cause it to go off tune. And whenever I have to do some retuning, I first let it go clearly under, then yank the string well, and then always only tune upwards.
Am I really missing something here, because my gut feeling is all these lubricants are only needed if you don't tune the string properly and remove the lax in the 1st place? Or are there really so bad nut materials that they really need that stuff?
Dee
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