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How to cut a new nut?
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  1. June 28th, 2006, 11:38 AM #1
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    Anyone have advice on how to cut a nut? I always use pre-cut Graph Tech models since I have the creativity of an ant with a crayola.
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  2. June 28th, 2006, 12:08 PM #2
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    My advice: don't. Unless you have the correct tools, files, guages etc. I tried to cut my own and "eyeball" it against the one I was replacing and my guitar sounded like crap. Intonation was all over the map and tuning was a bee-otch. Caved in and had a graphite nut professionally installed along with a proper setup and it sounds absolutely awesome now. Intonation is dead on all over the fretboard (or at least as close as one can reasonably get it on a budget axe). Didn't think a nut would make as big a difference, but it did.

    My 0.02. Oh, and it was cheap too. $40 installed and set up. Why bother with anything else?

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  3. June 28th, 2006, 02:20 PM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by t_ross33
    My advice: don't. Unless you have the correct tools, files, guages etc. I tried to cut my own and "eyeball" it against the one I was replacing and my guitar sounded like crap. Intonation was all over the map and tuning was a bee-otch. Caved in and had a graphite nut professionally installed along with a proper setup and it sounds absolutely awesome now. Intonation is dead on all over the fretboard (or at least as close as one can reasonably get it on a budget axe). Didn't think a nut would make as big a difference, but it did.

    My 0.02. Oh, and it was cheap too. $40 installed and set up. Why bother with anything else?

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    You would think someone would make pre-cut nuts for guitars made of various materials. Do I see a startup in my future? I wonder if there is a market for such an item. I realize most people would need to do a little adjusting, but the pre-cut Graphite ones do work wonders for me.
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  4. June 29th, 2006, 01:09 AM #4
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    Well, here is a entire plate of pre-cut nuts!!!

    All for you T-man

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  5. June 29th, 2006, 09:21 AM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by SuperSwede
    Well, here is a entire plate of pre-cut nuts!!!

    All for you T-man

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