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    Swung by the good local shop today (Guitar Attention Center, if you’re ever in Springfield, Ohio), and picked up a Tusq nut for my Strat. Ordered the trees. Gonna be a well-graphite impregnated machine when I’m through.
    “I can play the hell out of a riff. The rest of it’s all bulls**t anyway,” Gary Holt

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    Graph tech is my fav nut material.
    The things that you wanted
    I bought them for you

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    • #3
      Re: Tusq nut & tree

      Tusq is just an organic plastic. It has no "lubricating" properties beyond your typical cheap nut.

      Tusq XL is the one that is inherently "lubricated" with PTFE, commonly known by one brand name for it, Teflon.

      Graphite is not used in any type of Tusq.
      Originally posted by LesStrat
      Yogi Berra was correct.
      Originally posted by JOLLY
      I do a few chord things, some crappy lead stuff, and then some rhythm stuff.

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      • #4
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        Originally posted by Clint 55 View Post
        Graph tech is my fav nut material.
        Graphtech is the name of a company, not the name of a material. The Graphtech company makes the Tusq line, none of which actually contain graphite.
        Originally posted by LesStrat
        Yogi Berra was correct.
        Originally posted by JOLLY
        I do a few chord things, some crappy lead stuff, and then some rhythm stuff.

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        • #5
          Re: Tusq nut & tree

          GraphTech also offers a material sold as NuBone in nuts and saddles. It is creamy in color, and shapes and cuts just like bone. It even smells like bone when sanded.
          aka Chris Pile, formerly of Six String Fever

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          • #6
            Re: Tusq nut & tree

            I’ve got the tusq xl nut on my LP and also the graph tech saddles. They both work great.

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            • #7
              Re: Tusq nut & tree

              I think the Tusqxl material is PPS

              If you look it up it has the same material attributes as described to Tusq
              And the peices I have ordered have the glassy "ting" when dropped on a table just like the Tusq branded material

              My PPS nuts are about $2 each
              Come sized and pre slotted

              Also my Dean Shire came with a PPS nut installed
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              • #8
                Re: Tusq nut & tree

                Originally posted by ItsaBass View Post
                Graphtech is the name of a company, not the name of a material. The Graphtech company makes the Tusq line, none of which actually contain graphite.
                Thx for the heads up. I don't like calling it Tusq.
                The things that you wanted
                I bought them for you

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                • #9
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                  Originally posted by ehdwuld View Post
                  I think the Tusqxl material is PPS

                  If you look it up it has the same material attributes as described to Tusq
                  And the peices I have ordered have the glassy "ting" when dropped on a table just like the Tusq branded material

                  My PPS nuts are about $2 each
                  Come sized and pre slotted

                  Also my Dean Shire came with a PPS nut installed
                  PPS?

                  I would very much prefer some blanks over the pre-formed Tusq
                  -Chris

                  Originally posted by John Suhr
                  “Practice cures most tone issues”

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                  • #10
                    Re: Tusq nut & tree

                    Tusq is impregnated with a metallic substance. I used to know the name of the stuff. It was originally designed to be wear resistant and help with string breakage, and then it was discovered to have a self lubricating property.

                    It’s more of a ceramic than a plastic, which is why it pings when you drop it.

                    It’s great stuff. I use it on all my builds.


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                    • #11
                      Re: Tusq nut & tree

                      Whatever the hell is in it, I'm pissed that I forgot the nut at work today, so now I have to wait until next week to fit it.
                      “I can play the hell out of a riff. The rest of it’s all bulls**t anyway,” Gary Holt

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