Music&Chaos
Well-known member
Hello RT,
So, truth be told, I have not spent a great number of years or anything slotting nuts, but I have already successfully used methods other than what I see mostly online to cut them without issue as far as depth.
Yeah, you can use the online advice to get you in the general area, 100%.
All of that being said,
Online advice will show .014" distance between the 1st fret and high E when setting your distance.
I find this to be too high on pretty much any electric guitar.
I have been just going off of feel, or how difficult string is to press/how much movement I see when string is pressed, and just file until it looks and feels right.
Tend to get far lower than expected without any issues and improves the feel of playing tremendously.
That being said, i still wanted SOME type of method to affirm, or dial in my stuff to the utmost degree.
Here is a link to the video that I found that is the basis for my new trick/confirmation, and it works perfectly, especially if you expand it a bit for ease of use:
Expanded process to dial it in:
Lay the guitar down flat/use a neck rest.
Place one finger down on the 12th fret, take the other hand and tap the string quickly at the 2nd fret.
Unless you have something crazy going on, you should hear that loud piano like sound, correct? The harmonic/note is heard clearly?
Keep tapping and sliding your finger down one fret at a time.
11th fret held down, tap at 2nd, do you still hear harmonic loud? Go down another fret.
If you stop hearing the bright harmonic note before the 3rd fret, like it is just a dull sound, the slot can be lowered.
You should be able to go all the way down to the 3rd fret and hear that bright sound.
Maybe you don't want it that low, although it will not buzz due to being a hard picker (though I am).
Then stop filing when the harmonic sound starts at whatever fret is close, but not the 3rd, like at the 5th fret.
Works like a charm! Saves a lot of time and gets really dead accurate for each specific guitar.
Hope I helped explain that the best I could for helping to dial it in to your tatses, but basically, measuring down from the 12th, to the 3rd, is like a gauge of how much you need to take off. If you don't get high pitched tapping at the 10th fret, you have some ways to go until it will be clean at the 3rd, etc.....
I find this to be far more enjoyable and effective at detailing them in than just using feeler gauges.
Do whatever works for you.
So, truth be told, I have not spent a great number of years or anything slotting nuts, but I have already successfully used methods other than what I see mostly online to cut them without issue as far as depth.
Yeah, you can use the online advice to get you in the general area, 100%.
All of that being said,
Online advice will show .014" distance between the 1st fret and high E when setting your distance.
I find this to be too high on pretty much any electric guitar.
I have been just going off of feel, or how difficult string is to press/how much movement I see when string is pressed, and just file until it looks and feels right.
Tend to get far lower than expected without any issues and improves the feel of playing tremendously.
That being said, i still wanted SOME type of method to affirm, or dial in my stuff to the utmost degree.
Here is a link to the video that I found that is the basis for my new trick/confirmation, and it works perfectly, especially if you expand it a bit for ease of use:
Expanded process to dial it in:
Lay the guitar down flat/use a neck rest.
Place one finger down on the 12th fret, take the other hand and tap the string quickly at the 2nd fret.
Unless you have something crazy going on, you should hear that loud piano like sound, correct? The harmonic/note is heard clearly?
Keep tapping and sliding your finger down one fret at a time.
11th fret held down, tap at 2nd, do you still hear harmonic loud? Go down another fret.
If you stop hearing the bright harmonic note before the 3rd fret, like it is just a dull sound, the slot can be lowered.
You should be able to go all the way down to the 3rd fret and hear that bright sound.
Maybe you don't want it that low, although it will not buzz due to being a hard picker (though I am).
Then stop filing when the harmonic sound starts at whatever fret is close, but not the 3rd, like at the 5th fret.
Works like a charm! Saves a lot of time and gets really dead accurate for each specific guitar.
Hope I helped explain that the best I could for helping to dial it in to your tatses, but basically, measuring down from the 12th, to the 3rd, is like a gauge of how much you need to take off. If you don't get high pitched tapping at the 10th fret, you have some ways to go until it will be clean at the 3rd, etc.....
I find this to be far more enjoyable and effective at detailing them in than just using feeler gauges.
Do whatever works for you.
