Paper neck shims

[markb]

Dunno...just going off the premise that brass makes good nuts (I heard) and the whole high-mass trem block thing. The more solid the substance, the better the "connectivity", at least in my enfeebled mind.

Find a 1980s acoustic with a brass nut. Play some open string stuff and see what brass does for tone. Brass hardware was a fad for a while in the days of stripy neck-through Alembic lookalikes. Remember these?



Traditionally Fender have used bone or plastic for nuts and steel for saddles (on strats). They've been using a die-casting alloy for trem blocks for years. American Standard and Series strats (1987-2007) also use die-cast alloy saddles. I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that there's very little reason to change any of these parts but, as always it's down to the owner's tastes.

[oldguy]

I guess I'm getting old, but I don't remember a lot of those little white rectangles with red X 's in them....................

[WindyCity100]

Well, it's become almost academic now...I GASsed last night and bought one o' them there snazzy chrome red bodies (a MIM, the price was right), so the MM neck I have will go on that, as will the TS pups. Then it will go out for a set up and possibly a LSR roller nut (if they don't gouge me on it). I "best offered" on a nice neck on that semi-popular online auction site, but I guess it wasn't Best enough! Blue Lou will still get a new bridge, and maybe some better pup's eventually, but it's time to audition for a new #1.