NegativeEase
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Interested especially in pro luthiers comments on this -especially people like ICTgoober who apparently doesn't hold back feelings on members and customers :lmao:
-the nut filing thread today made me think of this.
I once had a Luthier (I didn't know) backfill the space behind the bone nut with a filler instead of dialing the nut in flush and correctly. -and leaving a large gap at that -gaps on both sides on the nut, from the neck surface on the north side and slightly gapped on the neck AND against the fretboard block on the south side. looked horrible. When I picked it up, saw it, and nicely I asked him to do it again, he said that was a totally acceptable professional technique and standard and refused.
Anybody agree?
My logic being -the nut is the second most critical point on a guitar for transmission of the waveform into the closed looped through the body for resonance and and that with the materials making much of the personality, feel, and tone of the guitar. (bridge I guess being number one -because it's always a part of the fretted sound too.). So a repair in which the nut is not uniformly firm and flush to the neck wood and against the fretboard side for a clean vibration into the loop is altering the efficiency and transmission of the vibration cleanly from medium to medium -because using a wood filler is another medium imparting properties and personality into this critical loop.
I understand that perhaps a filler could have a positive effect as well in some cases, but I don't think its a decision for a luthier to make without involving the guitarist seeking to preserve the bone nut tone he's getting prior to arrival. -anyways, I'm not sure if he was having personal problems at home of something -but he went absolutely bat **** crazy on me for asking him to redo it.
I have never had my guitar serviced by anyone else -except people I know since then. -and If you want science, I can probably post spectral analysis of guitar resonant properties and how medium transmission absorption and reflection affect them when I get some time
-Thoughts?
-the nut filing thread today made me think of this.
I once had a Luthier (I didn't know) backfill the space behind the bone nut with a filler instead of dialing the nut in flush and correctly. -and leaving a large gap at that -gaps on both sides on the nut, from the neck surface on the north side and slightly gapped on the neck AND against the fretboard block on the south side. looked horrible. When I picked it up, saw it, and nicely I asked him to do it again, he said that was a totally acceptable professional technique and standard and refused.
Anybody agree?
My logic being -the nut is the second most critical point on a guitar for transmission of the waveform into the closed looped through the body for resonance and and that with the materials making much of the personality, feel, and tone of the guitar. (bridge I guess being number one -because it's always a part of the fretted sound too.). So a repair in which the nut is not uniformly firm and flush to the neck wood and against the fretboard side for a clean vibration into the loop is altering the efficiency and transmission of the vibration cleanly from medium to medium -because using a wood filler is another medium imparting properties and personality into this critical loop.
I understand that perhaps a filler could have a positive effect as well in some cases, but I don't think its a decision for a luthier to make without involving the guitarist seeking to preserve the bone nut tone he's getting prior to arrival. -anyways, I'm not sure if he was having personal problems at home of something -but he went absolutely bat **** crazy on me for asking him to redo it.
I have never had my guitar serviced by anyone else -except people I know since then. -and If you want science, I can probably post spectral analysis of guitar resonant properties and how medium transmission absorption and reflection affect them when I get some time
-Thoughts?
