Members Nunc_Stans Posted July 3, 2010 Members Share Posted July 3, 2010 Recently I bought a rather nice strat styled guitar with somewhat a broken nut. *Low E slipped out very easily* I went to go change from the .09's to my usual .10's and now it doesn't stay in the nut at all. Now that I am getting a new nut I get to make my first nut swap ever.I'm trying hard to decide between Graphite *the current is graphite* or adjustable brass. The only thing holding me back from the adjustable brass is that i really like the tone of this guitar and I feel like a brass nut would change the tone making it brighter which would be unfavorable. So what's your take on this decision? EDIT: Forgive me it is the low E that is slipping out.I really should wait until I'm fully awake to make threads eyy?Fix'd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vintage clubber Posted July 3, 2010 Members Share Posted July 3, 2010 TUSQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Nunc_Stans Posted July 3, 2010 Author Members Share Posted July 3, 2010 Looked into it and I'm very interested.Thanks.Also.. TUSQ saddles?That sounds rather interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ashasha Posted July 3, 2010 Members Share Posted July 3, 2010 What's the angle coming from the nut to the tuner look like? If you don't have a string tree on there that may be the problem. I've got a strat that had the same problem until I put the string tree back on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Nunc_Stans Posted July 3, 2010 Author Members Share Posted July 3, 2010 What's the angle coming from the nut to the tuner look like? If you don't have a string tree on there that may be the problem. I've got a strat that had the same problem until I put the string tree back on. The low E is the string slipping out. There's a chunk miss off the side so when I upstroke it just pops right out. My string trees are fine. Roller trees in fact:thu:. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ashasha Posted July 3, 2010 Members Share Posted July 3, 2010 Sorry, I had just woken up when I read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mightysasquatch Posted July 3, 2010 Members Share Posted July 3, 2010 In 18 years, I have broken ten strings TOTAL. I know that's odd. In that same time, I have broken 6 plastic/corian nuts, three of them while on stage! I use graphite now, and have never broken one, or even had the slightest problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Nunc_Stans Posted July 3, 2010 Author Members Share Posted July 3, 2010 My current nut is Graphite.. and broken.The idea of brass seems good because it's adjustable and strong.But will it brighten the tone?If it makes enough of a difference I might just go with TUSQ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members brandass Posted July 3, 2010 Members Share Posted July 3, 2010 Yes, the brass will brighten the tone, and it sounds like that would be undesireable. I'd go bone, but TUSQ is intriguing too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Orange Jackson Posted July 3, 2010 Members Share Posted July 3, 2010 If you use the trem at all I would strongly recommend graph tech's black tusq nut. I think they a far superior to any other nut for a strat next to a LSR, or a floyd locking nut. The tunning stability you get with these is near perfect. As far as tone, that is more marketing then reality. 95% of the notes I play are fretted by the bone in my fingers, not the nut. The nut has very little effect on a guitars playing tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NHLfan2010 Posted July 3, 2010 Members Share Posted July 3, 2010 I've always lusted over brass adjustable nuts, just never been able to justify buying one (aka, always been to afraid to install it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Nunc_Stans Posted July 4, 2010 Author Members Share Posted July 4, 2010 Nuts being adjustable just seems like such a good idea.I think I'm going to go with brass and just roll back the tone knob a bit more.Plus it's only going to noticeably effect the tone of open strings.I don't use tremolo much, and when I do it's only for very subtle vibrato on harmonics so the TUSQ seems like a waste of the money. I could just keep it on temporarily unglued so I can return it if the change in tone is too drastic.If I'm not satisfied with the tone I can just send the nut back and go with something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaleH Posted July 4, 2010 Members Share Posted July 4, 2010 The new Graph Tech TUSQ XL http://www.graphtech.com/products.html?CategoryID=18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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