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- #14,704 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)
- #34 in Acoustic & Classical Guitar Nuts
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
* Genuine bone pre-slotted guitar nuts. These are very nice professional grade saddles to replace your inexpensive plastic or worn/missing nut.
* Fits for most Gibson LP Epiphone electric or acoustic guitar.
* Thickness at the bottom is 6mm, height is 9mm and length is 43mm, the bottom is flat.
* Great way to improve intonation and tone out of your instrument.
* Some shaping and or filing may be needed for the perfect fit and performance.
* Some work may need to be done to accommodate different string gauges, depending on what strings you use.
* If don’t have sufficiently skilled to carry out this exacting work we recommend you to take it to a guitar technician or suitably skilled repairman.
Dugo
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2024
Perfect fit.
spikemtz
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2024
I bought this nut to replace the plastic nut on an older Chinese Squier Affinity Precision bass. The nut is slightly narrower than the slot on my bass, but not enough to be a problem. I strung up the bass and it plays fine without modification. Your mileage may vary! Ideally, you'd have a custom nut made, but if you're broke, like me, and can't afford to take your guitar to a tech, or don't have the tools, or skills, to make one yourself, this just might do the trick.
Jrod
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2024
Nice quality nut. You can feel the difference between this one and a lower quality nut for sure. I used this one on my Son’s Epiphone Les Paul PeeWee. It fit great and did not require a lot of modification. I would recommend this product.
kolk
Reviewed in Canada on October 2, 2024
The string slots are just flat, parallel to the base - this causes the string buzz. The slots should be tilted towards the headstock.
gagnon
Reviewed in Canada on January 21, 2024
Améliore le la reverbe
Victor G. Gayle
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2023
Perfect fit after removing the old plastic nut which caused a flimsy string response (if u got experience in modding you know). I didn’t immediately glue it in place because I just wanted to see where it go, nothing permanent. Most of the strings sounded buzzy which indicated a cut to the slots of each string. Now this can be tricky and has the potential to ruin a new nut but with some inexpensive grated rods with the respective diameters (eBay purchase of a 10 rod set-cheap but effective) I was able to saw and sand with 600grit paper each slot to perfection. After a long process of sawing/sanding there was no buzz from any strings, all strings resonant, clear and intonated with open chords. Great product just find your size and anticipate some extra work. I’ve done this over the years with success and failures, it’s just part of the learning luthier’s journey and a very rewarding payoff. Be persistent.
Daniel Ramirez
Reviewed in Canada on August 23, 2023
Some dimensions of the description were off
JM
Reviewed in Canada on July 16, 2023
Well made nut, fits my 2011 Epiphone Junior perfectly. No adjustments needed!
Craig
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2023
This nut fit the 3MM slot in my Strat perfectly with an almost non existent edge hangover. The string grooves were very good. All I had to do was sand down to height.The color was perfect. I could not ask for a better Strat nut.
2bikemike
Reviewed in Canada on March 19, 2022
Sands well for exact shaping. String slots a little wider than my original but I can make it work. String spacing spec different. Not provided in the listing.
Nut Tester
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2020
This is a generic nut, so don't expect it to automatically fit your application perfectly out of the box. But, that's part of the beauty. For the dedicated tinkerer who is reading Amazon reviews about a small guitar component before making a decision, I can't recommend this more. The high quality bone makes fine adjustments possible, but it comes machined enough to not have to start from scratch. Personally, I enjoyed the process of sanding and filing down where necessary for a perfect fit, and the look is far superior to the stock plastic nut with overly deep grooves.Again, this nut *allows* (vs. Requires) you to customize it to fit an individual guitar, but does not require significant work to get ready to fit and install. I've been through several different guitar nuts on Amazon, and this is by far the. best. I've not yet tried the Graph Tech, but for me, there's no need to keep looking. Plus, the bone nut adds the authentic look and feel of how guitars were originally constructed.This is actually my first review, and I've given Amazon plenty of business over the years. I felt it necessary to weigh in after spending an inordinate amount of time trying to get this right, considering my extremely pleasant experience incorporating this product into my guitar build. It's cheap, there are free returns, you have nothing to lose. But if you try it, you won't be sending it back.
Jim C
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2020
expect to spend 45 min filing down to an acceptable string depth
Mark Knabe
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2020
REVIEW EDIT - Not every product can come perfect but the manner in which this company handles it's customer service is nothing short of Top Notch! I was extremely irritated with the original nut and working for hours on it to try and correct the issues with it to no avail. After giving the original review they contacted me to resolve the issue which was actually a first for me. They offered to refund or replace the product for me which I thought was fantastic customer service. Thank you very much Metallor and absolutely be trying your nuts again for the next two guitar builds that I am starting soon."I’ve filed my own nuts for years and was expecting to have a little work on my end but this thing is unsalvageable. So initially things looked good. I always put the nut in without any mods to see where I’m at on it. Installation was easy.Made all my measurements and found this but had too many issues to overcome. It looked at first that the slots weren’t evenly spaced. Took out my caliper and all of the slots were spaced differently which was what made the strings look goofy going down the neck. Slot distances were between 0.238 and 0.279 which was why they weren’t running straight. Next I noticed that the 2nd and 5th string slots were initially cut too deep. The 5th string was slotted lower than the 6th string and the 2nd string was cut lower than the 1st string. At this point I knew that I would have an easier task having an uncut piece of bone to make everything myself. I knew I just needed a new nut at this point buy thought Id check other things to see how bad this thing was. The slots were cut straight across and didn’t slope down to avoid buzzing and intonation issues. Then finally I noticed while tuning that the nut was pinching the strings. I would expect this if I were using heavy gauge strings but I have a set of 9’s on this. This company really has some quality control issues. So below is a quick list of issues with the nut to summarize.1. Slots not evenly spaced2. Two slots are cut lower than the outside strings3. Nut is 42.13 mm and not 42 mm4. Slope is flat5. Slots are too small for even 9 gauge strings6. All slots except for the high E 1st string were more than half the strings diameter down into the slot.In summary get a nut elsewhere. You’re better off getting a blank nut to work off of instead of this."
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