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You are very welcome and thanks for the thanks!

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Ann Arbor Guitars

Ka-Ching! Thanks Hesh….almost 9 years after your re-post!
Very difficult to master nuts when you only make a handful. I blew the string spacing on the one I’m making but I’m going to go ahead and finish it out for the experience. No need to get in a rush at this point. Pound for pound, this is the most difficult piece of an acoustic to get right. Respect my friend…….

Marked the slot positions with a string spacing scale. I started the slot with an exacto, followed with a razor saw before moving to a fret file. Part of the problem was that I cut the nut to height before the string slots or I could have recovered. I’ll replace the exacto step with a nut file slightly narrower than the scale slot width. And I am going with Hesh’s one-diameter slot depth too….

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Measure Twice,

Karl Borum