Nut Slotting Masterclass | Guitar #86 

This is the best nut cutting video I have ever seen. Brilliant work from both the artist and the camera angles. Thank you.

This really is a masterclass and one of the best nut videos on the tube. Cheers brother :)

The BEST Nut cutting / slotting video I have ever watched !! And I have watched probably 30 or more!And Yes I am the same Bhole who made the comment about the curtains. Sorry about that,but it would block out as much Sun as you want, just saying. But once again,The BEST Nut cutting video i've ever ever seen.

Absolutely the finest nut slot cutting tutorial out there! Been doing this for forty years and learned a couple of new tricks. Thanks!

Good info. I like the idea to use the feeler gauges to mark how deep to file.

Many thanks for this. Excellent instruction! I especially appreciate the thumb rule for the location of the outboard strings. And the use of the string spacing ruler was explained very well.

I file down the height of every slot to the depth just before string touch the 1:st fret, when playing an open string. Then you get a very easy played guitar, almost every time lower string height and you dont need to use any specific measurment. It is different in every guitar. I have done this for 40 years and always got easy playing guitars as a result. Rock on and Happy new Year!

I really appreciate your clear and thorough method of teaching. Awesome job, easy to listen to makes easy to learn. Keep it up!

Excellent tutorial ! Thank you !

Really good method. You are a good presenter-well spoken without any ums and uhs. Good teaching.

This is so useful. About to do this on my latest build, and I've never really had a consistent system...until now! Thanks!

Awesome dude thanks that was perfectly explained.

Great video, thanks for sharing 🙂

Awesome video!

Great One.....THANKS!

Love the depth gauging system with string off cuts. I am heading to the basement shop to make similar gauges!

Picked up a few good pointers and some things I like to do differently. Like to cut a softer angle on top (5-6 degrees?) then roll off the back in the direction of the tuners. Slightly flatter slots is more material for the strings to cut through. Because slots do slowly get deeper over time. Have a 40 year old guitar with the original nut and frets and the slots look like the grand canyon. But amazingly they still function.

Thank you very much.

Great Video Thanks

Makes you wonder why guitar makers don't always include a zero fret.

Thanks for a very good video. I have made lots of guitar nuts and more often than not I end up filing a couple of the slots too low. My OCD kicks trying to get the action at the nut as low as possible with just a few more file strokes. You’d think I would learn. 😢

Thanks ever so much for this 👍🍻

blackout curtains are crazy cheap at Walmart. I live in the Mohave desert, it gets 115 degrees here..... trust me, I'm a guitar player!!

Getting the nut right is one if not the most important things you can do to get your axe dialed in . But it is not easy It can take me up to a week to get mine dialed. String it play it string it play it. Good luck Great video dude thank you

thank you . hey i got one of the blue shirts too

I have a set of the same files, but the high B and E files suck because they cut basically square bottom slots. The others are a bit uneven too, but acceptable. The square slots are useless as the strings will vibrate sideways and make strange noises. I actually curved the cutting edge by filing/rounding off the corners of the teeth, which was an improvement though they don't cut as well.

It's 46 degrees here in Ireland (as I watch this video in April, 2024) ... and I'm sitting in a T-shirt.

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Enjoyed the video thanks for clearing up the process on reading the string spacer rule got mine today and didn't know how it worked ,question you said go a extra 7 once the feeler gauges reach the fret height ,what if I want to set it up for slide how much higher should I go

Good video. Thanks. ON your windows, add reflective film. It isn’t the prettiest to see, but it will help a lot.

I still remember the first time I saw a Floyd Rose style locking nut, and being surprised that there wasnt a proper nut slot or forward edge involved.Then the first time I saw locking tuners, and realizing that they really weren't " locking" anything, - they were just making poor string winding more difficult. Nice demo, - and if you didn't quite get it, - being a one time thing, - cutting the nut properly is a process; you prob shouldn't plan on rushing it, and getting on to finishing something else . Ironically, I've found that with pro tools made for the task, it can be actually easier to make mistakes.Their efficiency needs to be well controlled.

Thank you for mentioning what the strings are.

Good job Eric🤘 i live in France in" Normandy " but it's difficult to me to understand everthing ou say it's very technical ! In France it's metric in usa it's inches ( quarter , half, etc etc) Iam lost😂 too bad RU-vid doesn't translate in french directly😢🤟🎸🎸🇨🇵🙏🇺🇸

Very infoemative video but I was wondering, Should I splay the back side of the nut to match the path the string follows through the nut to the machinehead post to prevent binding. You cut a downward angle to match the angle of the headstock but the tuners are not in a straight line behind the nut. Would this be benificial or am I overthinking the process? Your thoughts on the subject please.

Wouldn't be much accurate 100% this procedure is done by a robot so to avoid any kind of error. Not doubting the operator or the technician knowledge and skills but since we are humans and there are other factors might alter our performance and it could help opening other fields where the outcomes even much better !! Please do accept our gratitude and appreciation for sharing your knowledge and skills thank you, best regards from ENGLAND.

Why do you make such a ling saddle? Thanks

When you are filing the nut, with the feeler gauges under the strings, should the angle of the file match the angle of the headstock? Thus taking the string to the angle as it follows the headstock as to goes to the tuner?

Have you ever heard of curtain or blinds?

How important is it to have rounded notches? I just bought a set of Hosco files and thought that one side would be rolled but it is not and am wondering if it is a big deal to have rounded notches. Thanks for the video!

Hello, are 7 thousandths of an inch for all frets? or each fret has a different measurement. Is the fret height x would be x plus 7 thousandths of an inch on each fret?

Get new vinyl double pane windows with LOW E/ argon gas filled. Heat goes bye bye

I don't like the string spacing ruler. It doesn't take the string gauge into account. Better to calculate the spacing based on the string gauges.

Before better air-con, get some uv film for the windows. Cheaper and really effective. Helps with sun damage on everything close to the windows too. Great video thanks!

How about bass guitar? Same nut relief?

Curtains mate.

Just install a ZeroGlide zero fret and be done with it.

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Not easy. I just wasted 2 blanks and then miss-cut the 3rd blank twice, sanding down the miss cuts each time. Third try now and if this one goes wrong there won't be enough nut height and I'll have to start from scratch.

Dude... it's not: DEE-ah-DAIRY-oh It's: Duh-DAH-ree-oh