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- #22,009 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)
- #32 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 folk acoustic guitars.
* Thickness at the bottom is 6mm, height is 9mm and length is 42mm, 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.
ZACK
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2025
I bought it since I was missing a pice on my guitar so I replaced it but it fits perfectly and sounds great and is good quality
Aden Wilk
Reviewed in Canada on February 18, 2025
Must shim the height with some sandpaper for the perfect fit! Pro tip for the new guys trying this. Get some 200-400 grit sandpaper. And sand it down until the string action is comfortable at the first few frets after the nut.
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on January 13, 2025
Great for the price! Replaced a worn out nut on an old guitar, sounded great!
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on September 9, 2024
Excellent
BJ Neblett
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2024
Good quality bone nut for LP and SG style guitars.
Jada
Reviewed in Canada on July 25, 2024
Gets it done
James Staples
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2024
I bought the 42mm nut to replace a shoddy plastic unit on my Yamaha guitar. I wasn’t expecting much in the way of the finished product, but I was pleasantly surprised.The nut required next to nothing in the way of alterations to fit it on the guitar. Only adjustment that will be needed is the deepening of the nut slots, which is standard procedure and not all that complicated.Even the placement of the pre-slots were done quite well- everything was spaced evenly and matched up almost perfectly with the width of the fretboard. While the slot spacing was a slight bit narrower than the one that came with the guitar, it actually works better in that everything feels better so far.The only (minimal) gripe I have is the slight chip or errant saw mark on one side of the product. It was very shallow and doesn’t impact its appearance, so it’s not a biggie.I would get this product again.
Daniel
Reviewed in Canada on February 24, 2024
Bonne qualité, ajustement parfait, bon espacement, très satisfait !
Steve
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2024
Fit my Epiphone Flying V Ebony (1958 Korina) like it was made for it.
Bruce Lee
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2023
I've made a number of my own nuts from bone blanks and was looking for something less time consuming. This one saved me some time but was still a good bit of work to get just right. First of all, the measurements in the description are flipped. It's actually 9mm high and 6mm deep. This was the only pre-slotted bone nut I could find with the 9mm height that I needed. 42mm is the correct length. I measured the E to E string spacing at 34.5mm, which in my opinion is a bit short. This left me with 3/32" of distance from the edge of each E string to the edge of the fret's bevel at the first fret. This is slightly cramped compared to most 42mm nuts but not a deal breaker. I prefer 1/16" distance for this spec (recommended by StewMac as well). Keep in mind all guitar fret bevels are slightly different so YMMV.As others have mentioned, the factory slots are too narrow to accommodate a standard 10-46 string set. I did not verify 9-42 but imagine this is what these slots are cut for. This is pretty lame if you ask me, but if you are prepared (as you should be) with nut files it's not too big of a deal. I forgot to measure the radius of the slot bottoms, but I'd guess it's around 12 inches.After widening each slot to the proper width and confirming the proper angle and take off at the leading edge of the slot, I sanded the base of the nut to achieve the proper height. I like to use a 12"x12" tile for my sanding surface. I start with 120 grit and then finish with 220 and finally 320. I recommend sanding down to a point where your low E has about .015" of clearance, measured between the top of the first fret and bottom of the string while fretting the third fret (feeler gauges are helpful here). Depending on the radius of your fretboard, this should give you about .010" of clearance at the high E (if you kept the nut flat while sanding!). Now you can finish the slot heights with your files. For electric guitars I recommend a final clearance of .008" for the low E, tapering down to .003" for the high E.Overall I am happy with this nut. The material is on par with other bone I've used for ease of shaping, as is the quality of tone. I wish the E to E spacing was slightly wider and that the factory slots were sized for a standard 10-46 string set. Good luck, nut making is really an art!
TRJ
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2022
Had to sand the bottom to bring the strings down. Then file the string slots, but fit perfectly and harder than a few bone nuts I'd had to mod.
bill cart
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2021
Excellent guitar nut. Put it on my EC1000 LTD. Replaced the factory earvana with a graphtech. It just didn’t pinch harmonic and was slightly to short allowing the strings to contact the frets on 1-3 that made some bad buzzing. I found this slotted nut and thought I’d give it a go. I’m glad I did. Make sure you understand that you will have to file very slightly for 10-46 strings and to fit in the nut slot at reat with no rocking back and forth. I use 12-60 strings so after the 10-46 test I filed it to my needs. You will have to shape it with fine sandpaper until it drops in place. The intonation, pinch harmonics, well everything really opens up. It was an inexpensive risk that paid off. I gave 3 stars for easy to install because folks need to know there is some slight work to be done. Stew mac nut slot files or similar quality are a must as well. I originally tried with the cheap ring of files that came in a cheap guitar repair kit and it just rounded the slots. With the proper files it took about 1 minute per slot.To recap, buy this for guitar nuts for ESPLTD guitars that do not have bone or trem type nuts. Get the proper nut slot files frome stewmac or similar files. Get 200 or so fine sand paper to shape it. Run your old strings through the nut slots after filing to smooth it out (and bridge if you are going up string gauge) All strings stay in tune with massive bends and super hard playing. Couldn’t be happier.
Joel Fritz
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2021
The length was what I needed. It might have been wise to measure the height and thickness of the existing nut more carefully. I had to remove quite a bit of material to make it fit and adjust the action. It seems to work fine as a nut. It was not a drop in installation.Note: the imprecise search engine makes it almost impossible to search for a guitar nut with specific dimensions. The lack of support for Boolean operators makes it worse.
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