Dropped a new nut on an old guitar…..

[JackBootedThug]

Mid 80’s Kramer 400st v. Floyd rose standard bridge. Standard nut. Looked kinda like it could have had a locking nut at one time. Just an odd looking cut. Someone apparently did some nut work and it was all fucked up and not square at all. Hopefully pictures will show what I mean. After removing the old nut I straightened everything with my fret files. Worked great. Decided to go with a brass roller nut. Traced the radius on it and then used my bench top sander to start sizing it. Thought I had it and installed it. Still a little too high. Still counting it as a win and not really that complicated to do. Helps to have a little knowledge of equipment and guitars I suppose. My equipment is outside on my back deck so I will fix it when it warms up. Anyway here’s some pics…..these are the new nut….

 

[JackBootedThug]

Here’s the old one…


Not sure what they tried to do on the side of it. People do odd things sometimes….

 

[Briman24]

Nice job! Is that a roller nut?
Looks like they chipped the nut by the low e and tried a hack job of crazy gluing wood to fill it?

 

[Monkey Man]

Wuddun brudda.

This monkey doesn't have the tools to do sumpin' like that.

Collecting ants with a grass stalk? Now we're talkin'.

 

[Floyd Eye]

Nice job broham.

 

[BeZo]

Nice nuts.

 

[PDC]

Nice Work! Once you've got everything square and the radius correct, height of the overall nut is a comparatively minor adjustment. I love projects like this!

 

[JackBootedThug]

Nice job! Is that a roller nut?
Looks like they chipped the nut by the low e and tried a hack job of crazy gluing wood to fill it?

Yup…chinaman brass roller nut…. Cheap as fuck but seems great…

 

[Robostyle]

Great job, i bet it plays a lot better!

 

[GearGasms]

This thread would hit harder if the title was Dropped a New nut on an Old Guitar. Be that as it may, it takes brass balls to install a brass nut. Kudos

 

[JackBootedThug]

This thread would hit harder if the title was Dropped a New nut on an Old Guitar. Be that as it may, it takes brass balls to install a brass nut. Kudos

I’m like a genie in a bottle, your wish is my command……

 

[GearGasms]

I’m like a genie in a bottle, your wish is my command……

Now it's perfect! lol

 

[shar-vell Dan]

I dropped a nard this week but it had to do w/ 300lbs of beef & not a guitar lol.