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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | Hello everyone. A friend of mind showed up today with an Ovation Legend that he tried to cut the nut slots lower, and kinda messed it up. On the low E string, he used a file that was not rounded. What is happening now is that the slot is alittle to wide, and the string can move alittle from side to side. The string is not to low, and the guitar is playable, but if you move the string you hear a clicking sound as the string moves from side to side. What can be done for this? Can the nut be saved and rounded at the bottom? Thanks.....Paul Hebert |
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Location: Scotland | The best bet is to junk it and have a new nut made, but there are a couple of temporary fixes both of which are fiddly to do. Take a square needle file and cut a large flat, square slot in the nut. Cut a piece of bone, corian, micarta, tusq or similar to fit & superglue it in place, then cut a new slot in that.
Another fix is to file a piece of bone and collect the dust, mix this with some ground-up HB pencil graphite and make into a paste with superglue. You have to work fast because it goes off real quick. Fill the damaged nut slot and let it set, sand it smooth then cut a new slot. You'll get a couple of months out of it before the string starts to bind in the slot.
If you're going to cut really accurate nut-slots you need proper nut files for the wound strings & a saw of the correct gauge for the trebles. Needle files won't do a pro job. For the price of a set of nut files you could have a luthier make a nice bone nut. Stewmac have nut files & nut blanks in a variety of materials |
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Location: Central Oregon | I don't know anything about a clicking nut, but I know a limeric about clanging balls....
Nils |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I once had a habit of butts
and I smoked every thing in a rut
I had to quit
my woman said shit
SHE THOUGHT SHE HEARD CLICKING NUTS |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Sorry
Those lines crawled out of my head like maggots from the body of a poet whose suicidel body moldered in the desert after producing such a limerick. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | This happens to me every year when they have the competition to exceeed the worst opening lines "It was a dark and stormy night", I strive to achieve a pictorial so lacking in the fizz of a dead, and warm, bottle of supermarket imitation coke, that, perhaps a visit to the Dollar store will provide the flat incentive to not face life as it is or could be, but to wallow in cheap goods, that is the answer if there ever was a question that would fit in a 6 X 8 frame, and could be hung on the wall of the 10 X 30 house trailer that is suggested by any philisophical thought on the subject. |
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Clicking nut problem?