Poor man's nut slotting file

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Poor man's nut slotting file

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Swapped the nut out on my guitar for a new bone one. Rather than pay stewmac a small fortune for a set of slotting files I hacked something together.

You'll need a Dremel or similar and a set of automotive feeler gauges (like you use to set a spark plug gap)

Grab your gauge and using a rotary cutting blade on your dremel, just cut a row of teeth into the gauges (do all of them at once) about 1-1.5mm apart.
You now have a mini-saw, and you use whatever width of gauge (or combination of gauges) you require to cut your slots.

Worked like a charm :mrgreen:

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Snap - works real good! Except the teeth on mine need regular freshing up!
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Those feeler gauges are a godsend. So handy in many guitar applications.
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*UNIQUE* wrote:Snap - works real good! Except the teeth on mine need regular freshing up!
Nah, Snap was when I went to install nice new nut. Instead of spending 20 seconds just sanding the nut a little thinner, I thought I'd just tap into place....just a little tap tap...tappety tap tap....shit.

Bone can be a little brittle... :wink:
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old strings glued to a lolly stick... perfect sizing ;)
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You keep your lolly stick to yerself, you dirty, dirty old bastard!
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Wow.
That is such a cool trick!
Was just wondering how I'd go about re-sizing a new nut without either buying the files (Ha! Yeah right! lol) or taking it in. Never occured to me to try something like that.
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anyone made DIY Crowning/fret dressing files,i rounded and polished the edges of a small three sided file for roughly shaping frets without gouging out the fret board.then fine sand paper,steel wool, last polish to mirror finish.still after a good crowning file - any ideas?
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I have a whole bunch of Stewart Macdonald fretting tools that I've never used and probably never will if anyone is interested.

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