Wow, that's a great idea.

Dan Erlewine from StewMac perhaps?

Thanks for the tip!

Thanks for that I'm considering this upgrade.

One of the best diy tips I've ever heard! This was exactly the issue I was looking to solve. Thanks!

his big mistake is using supper glue

I never glue it

@@AndrewMurphy8383 right... a tiny droplet of yellow glue in the center of the nut bottom is plenty and makes it easier to remove the nut in the future if needed...

Me too. Love em.

Waiting on the glue to dry under the Graph Tech nut I just installed. Unfortunately, there wasn't a specific application for my Silvertone S-style guitar, so I went with the closest thing I could find to what's on it, which was a fotly different style of nut. It has a Gibson/Epiphone-style nut at the front of the fretboard instead of in a slot on the fretboard. Ended up using a TR-6060-00, I believe. It was for a 2014 & newer Epiphone. Oddly enough, my nut was the same exact shape and just a few thou smaller in all dimensions. E to E was off slightly but it's nothing that, makes the guitar unplayable.

How deep

@@fuzzzvibe here's a video on pre-slotted nut installation kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qNpygqersMiXYoE.html

Made me want to NOT TRY THIS AT HOME

I just noticed that this is double posted. Not sure why.

I know right? Maybe there's one where he changes the pickups with the strings on. 😂😂😂

So annoying

i realize I am kind of randomly asking but does anyone know a good website to stream new series online ?

@Avery Kabir Try FlixZone. You can find it on google :)

@Julio Roy yup, have been watching on FlixZone for months myself =)

What model?

Other than routing the strings from the guitar to the tuners, the nut can self lubricate and keep the strings from 'catching' in the slots, de-tuning the guitar, and add sustain, the cost is just a few dollars more which guitarists would gladly be willing to pay. Same thing with premium locking tuners. Locking tuners when used properly will prevent micro unraveling around the post of the string that causes intonation problems with bending and higher actions that require the string to be pushed down hard. The fish stinks from the head down. I believe locking tuners and self lubricating nuts are as important as a straight neck and straight string pull designed head-stocks for both electrics and acoustics. The problem at Fender and other manufacturers, the corporate manager looks at cost savings in using inferior materials to increase profits, which is actually contempt for their customers. If they can save 1 penny per unit, it translates into tens of thousands of dollars of profit per year. Most of Fenders guitars even in the $2,000 and up categories do not have these simple cheap, sorely needed basic features. They 'romance' the colors or electronics and/or other optional features and leave the basic job of giving yourself a reliably tuned guitar up to you that voids their warranty and devalues the guitar. It is such an insult. When you pick up your guitar and it is out of tune, without having those features you always have to wonder if either problem is the cause. I like knowing I can rule those things out. It is so stupid to pay the money people pay for new guitars that don't have them, and then must do surgery or have others do it and possibly ruin the guitar, void the warranty or both.

MrJoeyBoombotz not really Fender nuts are easy to work with are durable and have a nice frequency response. You are just pre-programmed to think if it isn't bone or some modern graphite nut then by default it sucks.

Kennis Russell no, it's not well stated your just as ignorant as he is , you should have paid attention in science class then you wouldn't be so ignorant .

A nut is either self lubricating or it isn't. What they sound like is subjective and how durable they doesn't matter if they negatively affect tuning, and they do. Camel bone and a several synthetic materials self lubricate. It makes no difference to me which one, except that graphite and synthetic nuts won't wear out or are very difficult to wear out. The nuts that Fender uses do not self lubricate because the string still gets stuck in the slot and negatively affects tuning. Fender nuts do not always come out effortlessly when being replaced either, when too much glue or the wrong type of glue is used, it pulls neck wood underneath off when the nut is removed, making the replacement much more difficult and voiding the warranty if one is place. If you paid attention to the matter, YOU wouldn't be so ignorant of it.

In fact Epiphone started putting all Tusq nuts on many of their models to help them sell a couple of years ago. Epiphones lack straight string pull and locking tuners, so they needed to do something.

Well said!

I got a set of digital vernier calipers. Very cheap and accurate.

They are not considered "drop-in replacements". Even at the factory they need to shape the nuts a bit because of variances in the necks and the cut of the nut slot at the top. The Graphtech site tells you as much - you pick a nut as close as possible to just a bit larger than your current nut because you can easily file material away to make it fit. They make a lot of choices but every guitar - even of the same model made on the same day - is going to be a little different.

I ended up buying the same one he used in this video. My MIM strat had no slot, so I had to completely file off the tab on the bottom. That was not ideal. If I remember correctly, it was also not curved as much either. It took a lot of sanding to get it to fit correctly. I would recommend not gluing it in. Leave it slightly wider than the groove, so it’s a press fit. It doesn’t move around and should be easy to remove if it ever needs to be replaced.

@@emersorc Agreed on gluing...avoid it possible. If you have a tight press-in fit, that and the string pressure will keep it in place. If you do have to glue it, use just a couple of drops of wood glue rather than super glue.

I have a '14 MIM Roadhouse Strat, modded with a Bladerunner whammy bridge, which improved the tuning quite a bit. I was also considering a zero fret thing, but Tusqs have fairly good reviews, too... After watching your video, I think I will go the cheaper route first and get a Tusq. Thanks for the content, and Happy New Year, Kennis.

Guitar Center is awful!

But it’s only 4dollar nut :(

Guitar center told me it would cost 60 just to restring my guitar n wouldn't replace the nut

@@kennethmills5470 true, I found a local Tech that charges way less and actual reasonable prices. Will never get anything done at guitar center. Guitar center tried to charge me 3 times more than the guy I go to now would. Best just to Google guitar techs near me and ask about their pricing / check em out

And they say support your local guitar shop. But they rip you off!

The issue with my MIM Strat isn't tone but tuning stability. The best thing I've done for it so far is to put a little pencil lead in the grooves. I couldn't believe the difference. Because it's such an improvement, I will be doing this mod. I don't expect really any noticeable change in tone for the reasons you said. It's all about staying in tune.

it's nonsense and the writer is barely legible. Skip It.

There was no radius in the nut slot of this guitar.

Yep.Tusq nuts and a roller saddle bridge go in all my Epis.Total transformation.

Guitars Gods & Guns I had to replace a nut in my guitar and I didn't want to use super Glue so I went to the Hardware store and found Elmer's wood glue and it seem to have worked really well

That is exactly what I use to attach a nut. Never super glue. If you use super glue than need to replace the nut again years later, the nut will take some wood out with it when it is removed. That's not a good thing.

Isn't there a raised bit in the middle of the TUSQ that fits into a slot on the neck of the guitar? you would have to sand that off before any benefits from the curve of the neck could be gained. Sorry to pee on the bonfire!

No. The tang is for slots that have a flat bottom.

+Andy Prendergast I was thinking they meant that too, but they are referring to the slot that the nut slides into. You know? Like how you can slide it back-and-forth between the high E and the low E(the width of the neck).

***** Yes.It always surprises me how they alter the tone,in a good way.Great product.

John Iain McFarlane unless you play open strings, it affects the tone 0%

+Lew Magroo It's not just the tone. These nuts never need graphite and the strings will never bind, unlike plastic, bone, or brass. It really is a great product, and I rarely say that about new guitar stuff. I'm VERY much against "snake oil." : )

John Iain McFarlane even on expensive guitars?

Did you like it or it became too bright for you?

@@ibzmav I changed the pickup height to softened it. Having said that, I suspect it's the brand new set of NY XT that makes it brighter instead of the tusq nut. I changed both at the same time, and coincidentally, the previous owner sold the guitar to me with dull strings. I took it directly to the tech without experimenting with other strings. Unfortunately my only reference before the nut mod was with the old set of strings.

Only if the nut slot is not flat. This nut works for both flat and curved surfaces once you find out what you have.

Tusq makes exactly two nuts for Strats, the model 5000-00 and the 5000-0L, the last being for a left handed strat. It doesn't matter if it is made by Fender or made by Squier, one size fits all and then you trim it to fit. Or you can buy a blank and carve it into shape yourself. Do you really think that one millimeter in difference is going to hamper any guitarist? Besides, you can always sand the 1/2 mm off both sides of the nut when it is finally fitted. Your language is inappropriate for a public forum and makes you look an immature teenager--something I don't think you want to present yourself as.

How so?

No radius on this neck under the nut. It was straight across.

@@kennisrussell It's not flat, Fender mexico has 9.5' radius

Did he not damage the wood near the nut when he knocked the nut out like that? I do not agree with that method.

@@Muz64 no damage done...

Properly.

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