Good advice, thanks for clearing some things up for me!
Thought i`d try a heavier gauge, to try and preserve some string tension once i`d dropped the tuning. In the past, .11s have been way too rigid on other guitars that i`ve played, but there`s a lot less tension in my new, self assembled/built strat-a-like. Its the first time i`ve tried to built my own guitar so i`m opening up cans of worms by the bucket load! but generally its going quite well, and i`m confident i`ll have a nice playing/sounding guitar at the end of it. Just having to tweek, tweek and tweek some more.
I`m getting ahead of myself a bit with this posting because the nut is my main issue at the moment.
I`m fitting a brass nut which comes with pre-machined/moulded slots (which takes us into different topic territory, but i`ve started, so) ...the spacing is fine and the slots are very smooth but all six have equal depth and size, so the high E is well seated then progressively more pronounced down to the low E which sits very pronounced. I`ve ground the nut from the bottom in stages to take it down to a ideal height (still a little to go), but at this stage the nut slots seem pretty good as they are, with no snaging or buzzing and i`ve tested the strings with a bit of aggressive string bending to make sure that they dont pop out of the slots and it`s fine. I`m tempted to leave the slots well alone(if i can get away with it) unless i get some decent files or get someone with a bit more experience to do it.
Actually i`m finding the .11 gauge string tension a little tough on this guitar, so i`ll fit some .10s and take the final nut height from there.
