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The newest Luthier Tips du Jour instructional video is on Youtube. The topic is how to make a nut and saddle. Subtitles are available in both English and Portuguese and you can translate them into any other language by using the CC option on Youtube.
As always, comments and discussion are welcome.
Enjoy!

Very good!! I am nearing this step now on my very first guitar so this is really helpful. Thanks!

Thanks Robbie. Great Video. I have learnt something new in each one of them thanks.

Lars.

Great tutorial as always Robbie but I feel a need to comment on the thinning of the nut in the drum sander. I used the same technique many years ago and almost lost a finger when it was drawn into the drum on the out feed side. One must use a carrier for the nut or saddle blank to be safe.

Thanks for the tutorial Robbie. I am almost to that point.

It is amazing, the amount of help available here on the OLF. Most of you go above and beyond when it comes to helping starting Lutherans ( my spell check doesn't recognize luthier as a word, lol ). I've been on other sites that are more like a private club and if you are a newby just starting out, you are usually talked down to and peppered with smart arsse comments but I have yet to see that here.


Tim

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Tim

Well done Robbie, as usual very informative. Keep them coming we all love your videos.

Fred

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Thanks everyone. Remember to take those nuts seriously!

Hey Robbie,
I will try to be as serious about my nuts as you are about yours.
Your tut will be very helpful when I string up my first in 3 weeks.
Thank you.

Thanks, Robbie!

Thanks Robbie! The starting pointers you gave will really save me time (1/32 over the fret height on the nut). As a beginner I tend to leave larger margins for error, then slot to "close". After several string ups, slot adjustments, I would file down the excess top of the nut to leave 1/2 of the string outside the nut slot, then sand and polish with the nut already glued in.

Tip o' the nut to ya.

Danny R. Little

Thanks Danny and others!
Happy Building!