so this weekend I decided to start going through my guitars and changing the strings/doing intonation/polish it up/general setup. I started with my ibanez les paul. it's a '77 or so... and the nut blew out on the g string. it was a nasty little blow out... the area where the string meets the nut - right near the first fret... had blown out and left my g strings intonation all wacked up and caused some buz.
so what did I do? replace the nut?
well, I didn't have a new lp nut laying around so... a little magic.
I took another nut I had laying around... and started sanding it to get a little "nut dust" going. then add in some super glue and wha-la... "nut paste".
I packed this nut paste into the void of material near the g string (being careful to tape off the first fret...) and let it dry.
once she was dry I filed the groove back down till the string sat at the original height. Presto chango...
then I got my strat out... when I first got this guitar I re-did the nut (it was way too high stock). I cut it a bit too low... and always wanted to redo it.... so I took a tiny flat head screw driver and "tapa tapa tapa"... and tapped the nut out. took the sm screw driver and made sure to scrape out any "old glue". Now a pro would have used a file... so I decided not to charge myself.
I snagged my new "graph-tech" nut and did a test fit... I could see it would need some sanding so... put on the low and high e strings and...
sand down, test, sand down, test.
two drops of super glue later and I had an all new "pre-cut" nut.
did the intonation on either guitar and like magic voodoo...
I could fret a c chord at the 15th and it sounded like heavon.
I don't know why I'm telling you this... oh yea, cause I like the sound of my own voice.
so what did I do? replace the nut?
well, I didn't have a new lp nut laying around so... a little magic.
I took another nut I had laying around... and started sanding it to get a little "nut dust" going. then add in some super glue and wha-la... "nut paste".
I packed this nut paste into the void of material near the g string (being careful to tape off the first fret...) and let it dry.
once she was dry I filed the groove back down till the string sat at the original height. Presto chango...
then I got my strat out... when I first got this guitar I re-did the nut (it was way too high stock). I cut it a bit too low... and always wanted to redo it.... so I took a tiny flat head screw driver and "tapa tapa tapa"... and tapped the nut out. took the sm screw driver and made sure to scrape out any "old glue". Now a pro would have used a file... so I decided not to charge myself.
I snagged my new "graph-tech" nut and did a test fit... I could see it would need some sanding so... put on the low and high e strings and...
sand down, test, sand down, test.
two drops of super glue later and I had an all new "pre-cut" nut.
did the intonation on either guitar and like magic voodoo...
I could fret a c chord at the 15th and it sounded like heavon.
I don't know why I'm telling you this... oh yea, cause I like the sound of my own voice.
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