Sticky Nuts on my G-String...

[MrBump]

Nothing like an innuendo to start a thread!

Advice and opinions required (as ever) chaps and chapesses.

As some may know, I've recently acquired a lovely pre-owned Yamaha SG200.  It's great, I'm loving it more every day.

It's soon to get it's pickups upgraded, and as the plastic nut sticks a little, I'm wondering if it's worth me DIYing that too.  It seems pretty straightforward, but I've never done it before.

Whaddayathink?

Mark.

[Will]

NUT SAUCE, always helps that G string slide back and forth through its groove

[AndyR]

I've not tried Nut Sauce, but if it's only the sticking G that's worrying you, I'd definitely try a lubricant of some sort first.

I use either plain graphite (rub a 2B pencil over the slot to fill it before the string goes in) or if it's real troublesome I mix up a paste of graphite and vaseline and put that in.

The nuts on my guitars are always black around the slots :lol:

If you're wanting to replace it though, I've been thinking it's a DIY job that is probably achievable in the Andyr household with some practice - but I'd want to acquire a set of nut files first.

[Ben_W]

+1 to graphite. It should fix the problem, and a pencil is of course very cheap, so if it does work, it's much cheaper than everything else, if it doesn't work, it's hardly expensive. :) It's worth a go.

[sjwebb90]

As per previous correspondent try some Nut Sauce. Once you have, the pencils will be consigned to the bin.

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