Nostalgic Distortion
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Hello, in a few days I'm going to be attempting to change the nut on my Epi L.P.? I bought one of those Tusq XL pre-slotted nuts off eBay & I was wondering if anyone has any experience with them in this same application or something similar? I've never used a pre-slotted nut & although I understand how to change one & I've seen it done a few times I'm a bit apprehensive about this...
Chances are if you own a Epi L.P. or even a Gibson that nut is giving you some kind of tuning problems unless you already changed or did some work to the nut or your just very, very lucky!!! The Gibson headstock design is awesome for sustain among other things but awful for tuning stability unless the nut is cut probably. This wasn't such an issue when each guitar had its own nut cut for it but now I think they just find a general tolerance and make a half million of them like that?
Normally I'd take the guitar to a luthier here in town for this kind of thing. He's a local guitar god & about the only person in the world that I'd trust 100% with my guitar but he's not able to do it this time. He would have used a blank & cut the nut to fit, then cut each of the six notches one by one but he's very sick with Parkinson's disease & because of the shaking he can no longer work on guitars??? Sad, but that's why I have zero experience installing them myself, he did awesome work & loved doing it so the price was typically whatever it was worth to you! He's a very cool guy!!!
I don't want to have to go buy knifes, nut files, & string gauges to get this done so I'm hoping that once I've got it in there properly it won't require any extra cutting inside of the slots....
Chances are if you own a Epi L.P. or even a Gibson that nut is giving you some kind of tuning problems unless you already changed or did some work to the nut or your just very, very lucky!!! The Gibson headstock design is awesome for sustain among other things but awful for tuning stability unless the nut is cut probably. This wasn't such an issue when each guitar had its own nut cut for it but now I think they just find a general tolerance and make a half million of them like that?
Normally I'd take the guitar to a luthier here in town for this kind of thing. He's a local guitar god & about the only person in the world that I'd trust 100% with my guitar but he's not able to do it this time. He would have used a blank & cut the nut to fit, then cut each of the six notches one by one but he's very sick with Parkinson's disease & because of the shaking he can no longer work on guitars??? Sad, but that's why I have zero experience installing them myself, he did awesome work & loved doing it so the price was typically whatever it was worth to you! He's a very cool guy!!!
I don't want to have to go buy knifes, nut files, & string gauges to get this done so I'm hoping that once I've got it in there properly it won't require any extra cutting inside of the slots....
