An Alternative Way To Adjust Your Guitar Nut
May 11th, 2010
Most new guitars arrive through the factory when using the nut just barely playable. Elder guitars may have the nut filed or worn down a lot that fret buzz can’t be eradicated by neck or string height adjustment. If in case you have a brand new guitar, or you might be replacing the nut using a new one, here’s another method to file and adjust the nut material in making your guitar play such as professionals guitars play.
Before adjusting everything, ensure your guitar is strung up correctly and your neck is straight and never bowed or warped. If your neck is bowed you first need to regulate the truss rod. In case your neck is warped it would require a more extensive repair. For the lowest possible action or to avoid fret buzz all across your finger board it may perhaps be necessary to have your frets leveled and crowned first.
You will want a set of nut files (available from Stewart MacDonald), and a good set of feeler gauges as well. Different grades of sandpaper are very useful too.
Fret each string individually, starting when using the High E, between the second and third fret, use your feeler gauge to check the quantity of space between the underside of the string and the first fret. You should have approximately .005″ of space between every one, using the string barely touching the 2nd fret. If this measurement is close or dead on then move on to the next string right up to the Low E string. It’s your decision to record the gap on a scrap piece of paper as you move across the fret board, to see the nut slot’s height in relation to the fret board as you do so.
For many players a string height (also known in guitar slang as “action”) of 3/64″ of an inch is taken into account normal. Some players choose a higher sting height such as 4/64″ of an inch while players which tend to have a light touch and want the fastest action possible strive to lower the action as close as possible to 2/64″ which in many case’s is very hard to setup and maintain without fret buzzing somewhere on the finger board.
Of course, you can use the traditional method to set your string height in relation to the nut, by using multiple feeler gauges below the nut, and filing down to the factory depth and width. However, I have found this method to provide a better and more consistent feel while playing near the nut.
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