Welcome, Mikey Mike

Mikey Mike said:
Here's my Gibson style, it's a Raven (not Raven West), and a fix for Gibson at the headstock, it's free, works like it should,
and looks better than any other out there, (that's just me, 'cause I'm the inventor of this little jewel).
(just solder small pieces of copper tubing to an old fashioned Fender string tree, and bevel the inside edges of the tubing, entering and exiting).

If you do make one, polish the inside bevels with progressively finer papers rolled in a conical shape to polish those beveled inside edges. Silver solder the tiny tube to the Fender tree if you wish, (I did for the heck of it on the last one that I did for a friend).

There's a bunch of other styles to make of these too, these are my favorite though.

I hope a bunch of you do this and enjoy it.
You know It's completely reversable too.
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You should patent that. You’d be rich. Makes way more sense than a String Butler. However I haven’t met a Les Paul that I couldn’t make stay in tune yet. But that would save people a lot of money by not having to pay people like me to fix or replace their nut.
 
3bolt79 said:
You should patent that. You’d be rich. Makes way more sense than a String Butler. However I haven’t met a Les Paul that I couldn’t make stay in tune yet. But that would save people a lot of money by not having to pay people like me to fix or replace their nut.
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We had a recently passed member, Inspector#20, that wrote entire threads detailing his nut work (wow that doesn’t sound right :unsure:). He filed the nut width .004 over the string size, filed about 2/3s of the rear of the trench at an angle towards the tuner, and then filed the rear side edges of the trench in a fanout pattern. He made a partscaster with a brass nut that he could dive bomb 11 semitones and it would stay in tune. He was also an excellent musician and good friend.
 
This was born from a need, a year or so before the commercial one was offered.
A good friend was going nuts about his Les Pauls, (he has two, both with a Floyd Rose
with bone nuts that would never return to proper tune) and both hanging up somehow.

With me being a Nutspert, he came to me for a possible fix. Was even rolling around
the idea of a tension bar, but wanted it to be reversable.

I've done the delta at the back side forever and always made sure of super round
and polished slots. That was almost good enough for a Floyd Rose,... almost.

I do hope a bunch of you will try it!
Mike
 
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Don O said:
We had a recently passed member, Inspector#20, that wrote entire threads detailing his nut work (wow that doesn’t sound right :unsure:). He filed the nut width .004 over the string size, filed about 2/3s of the rear of the trench at an angle towards the tuner, and then filed the rear side edges of the trench in a fanout pattern. He made a partscaster with a brass nut that he could dive bomb 11 semitones and it would stay in tune. He was also an excellent musician and good friend.
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The way you described him doctoring the nut is how I do it. Everybody complains that their Bigsby equipped guitars won't stay in tune. Well, I can dive bomb mine and they still return to pitch. I can also be d the hell out of the d and g strings on my Gibsons and they stay in tune, at least once the strings have been thoroughly stretched.
 
JohnnyGoo said:
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Thanks for the welcome Johnny!

When we pulled the locking nuts from his Les Paul's, (about 6 years ago) we put Gibson Robot Tuners on one, (he likes those, I've never had one of my own to like, or not...).
The other we changed out to Sperzel Locking tuners, and all has been good with both.

Replacing the locking nut improved both tone and sustain, maybe because the headstock and tuners brought back into the mix allowed the guitar to be a guitar.

I still have a Floyd Rose equipped Strat style guitar with a bone nut and locking tuners and it is just fine also.
Thinking that the nut would wear quicker, I made one from a butter knife handle thinking the stainless
would last, but never did need it (yet).
Thank goodness I didn't go with a Titanium nut, because the stainless wore down a couple of my nut files.:(
 
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Mikey Mike said:
Thanks for the welcome Johnny!

When we pulled the locking nuts from his Les Paul's, (about 6 years ago) we put Gibson Robot Tuners on one, (he likes those, I've never had one of my own to like, or not...).
The other we changed out to Sperzel Locking tuners, and all has been good with both.

Replacing the locking nut improved both tone and sustain, maybe because the headstock and tuners brought back into the mix allowed the guitar to be a guitar.

I still have a Floyd Rose equipped Strat style guitar with a bone nut and locking tuners and it is just fine also.
Thinking that the nut would wear quicker, I made one from a butter knife handle thinking the stainless
would last, but never did need it (yet).
Thank goodness I didn't go with a Titanium nut, because the stainless wore down a couple of my nut files.:(
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The locking nuts do something to the tone. The strings straight to the tuners give the missing mojo back
(that's just me though).
 
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