Warmoth Strat Build (part 34)

Jason from The Musician's Den in Evansville, IN demonstrates building a stratocaster style parts guitar from a Warmoth neck and body. In part 34, we trim off the ends of the string nut and install it.

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[Samickboom]

Hey man, I'm thinking about ordering some parts for a fretless bass I want to make. I'm a total begginer and was wondering does the nut come already filed down for strings? Cheers :)

[smbstressfest]

@Samickboom There are preslotted nuts available, but you've probably got a better chance of being attacked by a shark than most preslotted nuts arriving properly sized and slotted for the instrument it goes on. Expect to have to custom slot and cut string nuts.

[cast390]

Jay.

This is a quote from the stewmac site about the neck jig....

"The Neck Jig lets you do your fretwork with the same forces that are present under string tension. Its not necessary to loosen the truss rod to straighten the neck for leveling the fingerboard or frets".

If this is true then why do you adjust the rod when your necks are jigged?

[smbstressfest]

@cast390 I'd say that quote about the neck jig is a little misleading. The neck has to be straight under string tension in the playing position before we take the strings off and only then use the neck jig to recreate the string tension.

If I'm actually using the neck jig to recreate string tension, any adjustments I do to the truss rod will happen before the strings come off.

But sometimes I only use the neck jig to hold a guitar neck straight so that I can level the frets or fingerboard.

[Semimentalman2]

with my bass the brass string nut has beenattached before the finish was applied,

would you do it any different from what you are doing now for a brass nut?

[smbstressfest]

You mean to mark it and install it? No, I'd still scribe a line in the sides with the X-acto blade then grind/file/sand the line away. It probably wouldn't be necessary to fill the line with pencil on a brass nut though.

[F3FisGoodforYou]

You videos are unbelievable, So Great ! Everything is explain step by step in details !

Fantastic !

[Castleintheair1]

Hi,

Thanks for the great videos,

could you please post the link of the video that shows how to glue the nut?

[Semimentalman2]

alright, it's just that i thaght for brass and bone seemed to be done differently

[02stanggt]

but, I'll never tell.....LOL