I've been experimenting with nut materials on my guitar. Of course, I did not mean to end up in this experiment, nor did I want to, but here I am.
When I was deciding on all the specs and parts for my tele build, I decided to go with a pre-slotted tusq XL. It was too short, the nut slots too wide for the bevel on this particular neck, and the sound of the open strings has a noticeably damped resonance.
I'm too obsessive about the action and speed of my necks to not have everything really dialed in, so I've come to realize that I need to custom cut the nut slots, and shape the nut from a blank. I'm probably going to use bone, because I installed one this past week and was able to test it out. I couldn't believe that I would notice as drastic a difference to the tusq XL as I did. I was so close to having this filed perfectly, but cut the D slot too deep. So, I cussed a lot, spent a several hours researching methods of repair, and have come to accept that I need to start over to do it "right".
Anyways, I've probably going to stick with bone as my nut material, but I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with "Tone Ninja's" nut material?
https://www.toneninja.com/guitar-nuts
They use a glass reinforced acetal copolymer, which sounds legit as a nut material. I read the Wikipedia page on it, so I'm now an expert on material. I bought a blank, as well as a bone nut blank to try out.
Let me just finally say this: It's bothering the hell out of me to have to buy anything from a company with the name "Tone Ninja". "Tone Ninja"?? Acetal Copolymer MaGee would have been a better name, ACM.
It's so bad, I will actually feel some embarrassment saying it out loud if I like it and the topic of the tele's nut ever comes up.
When I was deciding on all the specs and parts for my tele build, I decided to go with a pre-slotted tusq XL. It was too short, the nut slots too wide for the bevel on this particular neck, and the sound of the open strings has a noticeably damped resonance.
I'm too obsessive about the action and speed of my necks to not have everything really dialed in, so I've come to realize that I need to custom cut the nut slots, and shape the nut from a blank. I'm probably going to use bone, because I installed one this past week and was able to test it out. I couldn't believe that I would notice as drastic a difference to the tusq XL as I did. I was so close to having this filed perfectly, but cut the D slot too deep. So, I cussed a lot, spent a several hours researching methods of repair, and have come to accept that I need to start over to do it "right".
Anyways, I've probably going to stick with bone as my nut material, but I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with "Tone Ninja's" nut material?
https://www.toneninja.com/guitar-nuts
They use a glass reinforced acetal copolymer, which sounds legit as a nut material. I read the Wikipedia page on it, so I'm now an expert on material. I bought a blank, as well as a bone nut blank to try out.
Let me just finally say this: It's bothering the hell out of me to have to buy anything from a company with the name "Tone Ninja". "Tone Ninja"?? Acetal Copolymer MaGee would have been a better name, ACM.
It's so bad, I will actually feel some embarrassment saying it out loud if I like it and the topic of the tele's nut ever comes up.
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