Fret Slot Depth Tester

When installing new nuts, I measure with feeler gauges and a radius gauge under the file when slotting a nut but for your purposes you can do

Fret Slot Depth Tester And while guitar nuts are not expensive, most don't come filed, which means you will have to go and get your nut filed out which is quite a bit more expensive

When installing new nuts, I measure with feeler gauges and a radius gauge under the file when slotting a nut but for your purposes you can do

slot 4x4 So for a gauge the slot should be about deep, and for a gauge the nut slot should be deep If the top of the nut would be

What you want to achieve is a nut slot depth that will allow the string to poroperly clear the frets when playing the string open (not buzzing

guitar nut slot I overheard a conversation where a luthier mentioned that nut-slot depth might affect how the string sounds Specifically, he was cautioning

Re: Methods for optimal nut slot depth? I always go with method 1 with feeler gauges The only possible advantage I can see