Need to raise nut height. Advice needed.

Need to raise nut height. Advice needed. - Acoustic Guitars

The quick and sloppy method is to jam a piece of matchbook cover or teflon tape under the string in the nut slot. Theoretically this raises the string a mm or ...

How to Adjust the Nut Height on a Guitar - YouTube

I show you how I go about filing the nut on an electric guitar to lower the action and get open chords to play more in tune.

How to raise the nut on an electric guitar? : r/Luthier - Reddit

A piece of metal or wood or plastic will work as a shim. The nut should only be glued with one or two small drops of glue. You want it to be ...

How to adjust a guitar nut's height - Quora

There are different ways to do this. Best way to raise a nuts height is to replace the nut with a taller one. You can shim a nut upwards in ...

Effect of nut height on action and intonation? | The Gear Page

You don't need to raise the nut much to make big differences in feel and playablility. Most tech's use little glue for nuts. Carefully ...

Opinions on nut slot height needed - My Les Paul Forum

Depending on your brand of guitar the nut recommended nut height is usually .020” to .022” for a Gibson at the first fret on the low and ...

Raising a Nut Slot – Guitar Setup and Maintenance - YouTube

After adjusting the truss rod and setting the string saddle heights at the bridge, you can now make the third adjustment, which is to the ...

Nut Slot Height and Neck Relief - The Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum

I use a simple method for setting the nut slots, with no measurements required. The bottom of the nut slot needs to line up with the top of the ...

Adjusting Nut Slot Guitar | Guitar Craft Academy - Nashville

You typically make adjustments to the nut after setting the bridge, as the heights of the nut slots are a function of the overall string angle.

Guitar Maintenance: Check Action at the Nut

To check nut-slot height, hold the string down at the third fret, and see how much it moves over the first fret. This is similar to checking neck relief.

How to Measure the Nut Height & File (Lower) the Nut Slot on Your ...

Everything you need to know for adjusting your nut height on an Acoustic Guitar ... Advice/Setup-Hub/ For a complete guide to measuring ...

Looking for an ez fix to a nut slot that's cut too low.

To optimize the setup for ease of playing, each slot needs to be cut and/or filed to produce the correct string height. Under the heading of " ...

Slide guitar... raising string height at nut? - Strat-Talk

You can shim the nuts. If you know how to change a nut, you know how to remove yours and put shims under them. Obviously you can't raise them ...

Raise Height of a Single Nut Slot? (epoxy?) - TalkBass.com

*For more severe cases, I'll add a shim to the bottom of the nut and make the necessary compensatory cuts to the slots. Just did this (...rather ...

Dot action: recommended measurements for nut height and relief?

The width and string spacing turned out to be just right so you just need to take a bit off the bottom to adjust the height. I used 360 grit ...

Correct nut height - Delcamp Classical Guitar Forum

If you aren't getting either symptom then leave it alone but if you need to raise it the easiest way is to cut slices of plastic string packet ...

When to adjust bridge height vs nut height? | My Les Paul Forum

Well, it's misinformation, then. You don't raise or lower the nut. You cut proper nut slots. And there's more information about raising/lowering ...

Adjusting The Nut | How To Setup Your Electric Guitar [5 ... - YouTube

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ok... poll please... "should the nut slots be cut so string sits exactly at ...

Logically, the nut slots should need no more clearance above the first fret than would otherwise be required between the first and second, ...

Re: Nut height - Mandolin Cafe Forum

I usually end up with a bit of a trapezoid shape. I typically adjust the depth to where the strings are the most comfortable to play, then I ...