sjaguar13 Posted June 1, 2004 Report Share Posted June 1, 2004 Can I use an acoustic nut on an electric guitar? I can only find what I want for an acoustic. Is there a difference? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primal Posted June 1, 2004 Report Share Posted June 1, 2004 What are you looking for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaguar13 Posted June 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2004 A slotted 12 string nut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted June 1, 2004 Report Share Posted June 1, 2004 I don't see why not, after all people use, bone, brass, plated pot metal, plastic and graphite so why not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Devon Headen Posted June 2, 2004 Report Share Posted June 2, 2004 I'm assuming it's just bone, so I imagine acoustic and electric nuts would be the same. The only problem I can even barely see as a possibility is that the slots are too big. I'm assuming you don't have the tools to make your own nut? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaguar13 Posted June 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2004 I'm assuming you don't have the tools to make your own nut? No I don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaguar13 Posted June 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2004 Crap, crap, crap! The nut won't fit perfect. I have to take some off the sides, but it would put the strings really close to the edges. Is that going to matter? I have a few guitars that need nuts. Maybe I should look into the tools to make my own. What would I need? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted June 2, 2004 Report Share Posted June 2, 2004 you could just buy them preslotted by stewmac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted June 2, 2004 Report Share Posted June 2, 2004 Go to a place that works with Corian kitchen counter-tops, and ask if you can have some scraps of the stuff. Take all that they'll give you. If you end up with a handful, you can practice making nuts, plus if one turns out, Corian is a great nut material. If you don't have, or can't make the needed tools, you'll need to go to a pro to get it done right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotrock Posted June 2, 2004 Report Share Posted June 2, 2004 I think that feeler guages have been used quite a lot. You can serate one edge of them and use them as a veriable width saw. I must stress that I haven't tried it, just picked up the idea from somewhere. I'd wait until someone that has confirms that it works. Good luck dude, I've got all this come Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted June 2, 2004 Report Share Posted June 2, 2004 I think that feeler guages have been used quite a lot. You can serate one edge of them and use them as a veriable width saw. I must stress that I haven't tried it, just picked up the idea from somewhere. I'd wait until someone that has confirms that it works. Good luck dude, I've got all this come I've done it. They only stay sharp enough to do a couple nut-slotting jobs. For the bigger string slots, there's all kinds of good tricks, like wrapping sandpaper around a thinner feeler-gauge. It the thinner strings where you are pretty much stuck with buying those special files. But recently I've been thinking more about ways to make cheap home-made files, because I'd like to experiment more with making nuts out of metal, and I hate to wear out a set of files that cost $60-80. There's some chemical stuff that they use to sharpen files. they dip the files in this stuff and it somehow eats away a little metal on the file teeth, and makes them more sharp. So I'm wondering if this would work on home-made files: maybe it makes metal turn rough, which is like a very fine-tooth file. I don't know. I have a friend who makes guitar strings so rusty, they actually become sharp. Maybe something like that would work as a cheap "nut file". I once "roughed up" a nail with a file, and then used it as a nut file. It worked quite well. Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaguar13 Posted June 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2004 you could just buy them preslotted by stewmac I couldn't find a slotted 12 string nut on StewMac.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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