Superglue in nut slots?

[FourT6and2]

Brought a guitar in to a shop to get a setup. Came back with a buzzing open string. Brought it back in. Their fix was to fill the nut slot with super glue to raise the string up a bit so it wouldn't be buzzing against the first fret. They didn't tell me this is what they were going to do. They just did it.

Is this a normal, best-practice thing to do? I mean... why have some fancy awesome nut made of fancy awesome material for "tone" and smoothness/lubricity... and then just fill the string slot with glue?

 

[lespaul6]

Ive done this before... that and filing some graphite and superglue mixed to create something to file there. Its the only alternative to a full nut replacement- I believe.

 

[chunktone]

This is a fairly common fix for an incorrectly cut nut.

 

[sapphireskiss]

Brought a guitar in to a shop to get a setup. Came back with a buzzing open string. Brought it back in. Their fix was to fill the nut slot with super glue to raise the string up a bit so it wouldn't be buzzing against the first fret. They didn't tell me this is what they were going to do. They just did it.

Is this a normal, best-practice thing to do? I mean... why have some fancy awesome nut made of fancy awesome material for "tone" and smoothness/lubricity... and then just fill the string slot with glue?

It didn't buzz before and now it does? I'd want to know what they did to the guitar (nut work, neck adjust, bridge adjustment). I've paid someone once for a setup and I'll never do it again. I just think you're better off learning how to do your own setup and that way shit like this doesn't happen.

 

[FourT6and2]

All they did was a truss-rod adjustment and bridge adjust. They didn't touch the nut. But the neck was extremely bowed when I brought it in, so straightening the neck means lower action. So my theory is properly setting the neck up made the pre-existing nut issue apparent.

But ok, if using glue to fill a nut slot is fine then I'm not worried. It just seemed weird to me.

 

[kurtsstuff]

Brought a guitar in to a shop to get a setup. Came back with a buzzing open string. Brought it back in. Their fix was to fill the nut slot with super glue to raise the string up a bit so it wouldn't be buzzing against the first fret. They didn't tell me this is what they were going to do. They just did it.

Is this a normal, best-practice thing to do? I mean... why have some fancy awesome nut made of fancy awesome material for "tone" and smoothness/lubricity... and then just fill the string slot with glue?

It didn't buzz before and now it does? I'd want to know what they did to the guitar (nut work, neck adjust, bridge adjustment). I've paid someone once for a setup and I'll never do it again. I just think you're better off learning how to do your own setup and that way shit like this doesn't happen.

My guess would be that they set the guitar up..adjusted the neck to where proper relief should be and found a poorly cut nut and did the most common and quickest fix..

 

[sandman]

I saw this video on baking soda and super glue for guitar nuts yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slCMkvEfK_U

 

[Romans 1:16]

It's fairly common alternative to replacing the nut. Done it for years with old acoustics.

 

[Metlupass2]

I put super glue on my nuts once.....it was very painful to get my hand off.

 

[atrox]

As said. very common. Most people don't want to pay me to install a new nut, so if i feel the issue is minor enough, i'll do the, whatever material the nut is made out of/superglue mix. It holds up really well.

 

[russoloco]

Really common. Sand some of the nut substance to mix with the superglue to color match. Fill, and file.

 

[dfrattaroli]

I do that as well. I usually sand and old nut to make nut dust and then mix that with the glue. It's an invisible fix. Works great.