How do you lower a Floyd locking nut after a refret...

Hi All,

I was thinking that after my refret on my Jackson Dinky that I might have to lower the nut. On non Floyd's you can either make a new nut or sand it down.

But how do you lower a locking nut? I know I could sand down the shelf that the nut sits on but I'm afraid I won't do it evenly...or maybe there's a trick to for that..

Any ideas???

Also...how low should the nut actually be?

dinkyguitar

Normally a refret requires the nut to be shimmed up because the frets are taller. If the frets are going to be lower than it was previously, i dont understand why it was refretted in the first place, you could have simply leveled and recrowned if there was so much meat left the the new frets are lower than the replacements.

In ither case, for a locking nut, you would need to either take some of the neck away or grind the bottom of the locking nut. i'd be inclined to tale the nut down if theres enough met there to get it done and not affect the locking because taking down the neck is irreversable.

If as I suspect, the nut needs to come up, new nuts are normally sole with stainless steel shims. You could easily fashon your own cutting some thin metal to size, and maybe gets several cut in case you need to layer them for extra height. be sure to measure the height from the first fret to the bottom of the string for correct height or you'll wind up having some sour notes in the lower positions. I usually eyeball mine in when cutting a normal nut so the strings just clear the first fret when the third or 4th frets are held down, The height gets gradually higher towards the lower strings to prevent buzzing. You could may want to dig up the factory specs and use feeler gauges to get the first and last strings at the correct height if you havent done them before so you get it spot on.