Nut Questions

[Bradock PI]

What Nut do you use and why?

Was it origional or did you change it?

Do you use the same in all your guitars?

[Jonny]

Most of my guitars are floating trems, so locking nuts.

And they're usually the Ibanez factory ones or an OFR one.

[Will]

I had a plastic one changed for a bone nut, I felt the plastic killed the vibration, whereas with the bone it rings true. More percussive almost.
Then I have an early 80s Gibson, I am not sure if its bone or corian, but I like it the most

[psy]

I've got an Earvana nut on my main guitar.  I only really changed it because one of the slots was cut too low on the stock nut & I was getting some string buzz.  I'm glad I've changed it though.  It sounds better & improved the intonation a canny bit.

[Philly Q]

All of mine have the stock nuts, corian, plastic, bone, graphite or whatever they came with.

If they needed replacing I'd probably go with Tusq, but I'd get advice from our luthier friends.  It's one job I've always been reluctant to try myself - I think I could fit the new nut OK, but I worry about making a mess of removing the old one.

[FELINEGUITARS]

I like dense bone, graph tech, tusq, slipstone, decent locking nuts and Earvana
I stock and fit all the above

On my own guitars if they aren't Floyd Rose locknuts then they are all Earvana
( I am a total convert- love them)

[MDV]

Graphtech by default, but trying an earvana on the next legra

Oh, the why is they give the best toane. Strong, broad frequncy vibration transmission. And, of course, less string sticking.

[JDC]

I like dense bone, graph tech, tusq, slipstone, decent locking nuts and Earvana
I stock and fit all the above

On my own guitars if they aren't Floyd Rose locknuts then they are all Earvana
( I am a total convert- love them)

couldn't you put a locking nut behind an earvana so you've got best of both worlds?

[FELINEGUITARS]

Yes - you could  put the locknut behind an earvana - would be a bit like the old Kahler system

[WezV]

i have a thing for unbleached bone at the moment.... once you get past the smell its a great nut material.  quite happy with delrin, graphtech or tusq as alternatives and i think we are in a situation now where less factories are using cheap soft plastic



absolutely hate cheap plastic


i do the drop test on my kitchen worktops.  if it clangs or rings when i drop it then it gets used, if it thuds it doesnt

[Lew]

I couldn't give a rats ass as long as it's cut well and lets the string move through it without sticking.
Fret a note and it goes out of the equation anyway... so, who's going to argue that the magical tonal properties of bone or whatever extend past a fretted note? I know someone will  :lol:

[darkbluemurder]

I couldn't give a rats ass as long as it's cut well and lets the string move through it without sticking.
Fret a note and it goes out of the equation anyway... so, who's going to argue that the magical tonal properties of bone or whatever extend past a fretted note? I know someone will  :lol:

I agree by 100%. Never noticed enough of a difference to matter.

[WezV]

so, who's going to argue that the magical tonal properties of bone or whatever extend past a fretted note? I know someone will  :lol:

no lew... you are spot on - but how many open notes are there in the average piece of music you play? ;)

[Twinfan]

Almost all mine are stock nuts, except for a Tusq on my Epiphone SG and a Graphtec on my Squier Strat.

The Strat is a project guitar, so I did it as an experiment.  The Epi SG is heavily pimped for gigging, and I changed the nut to ensure tuning stability.

[ToneMonkey]

For something that I buy then stock nut.  The time and money spent changing it would be better of spent on part of a lesson (for me anyway) rather than increasing sustain by a tenth of a second.

For something I build - anything that I haven't used before (I like to experiment  :D)