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Hey Doc, I think he uses Brass Nuts for the bright ringing tone as the difference in sustain compared to bone wouldn't be much at all.

I bought a Brass one for my Tele which looks a bit short in side-on profile with an already very low action. They are great for root chords or any open string notes but a right proper B@!#%h if you need to work on them as the metal is so hard to file down. Still yet to figure out if it is a keeper or just order a bone one from DB.

On my old Strat I didn't use the whammy bar and just wound in the spring claw as tight as it would go, put 3-5 springs on and that gave it a helluva lot of sustain. Suppose if you want to use a whammy the compromise is a drop in sustain.

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Originally Posted by wazkelly

Hey Doc, I think he uses Brass Nuts for the bright ringing tone as the difference in sustain compared to bone wouldn't be much at all.

I bought a Brass one for my Tele which looks a bit short in side-on profile with an already very low action. They are great for root chords or any open string notes but a right proper B@!#%h if you need to work on them as the metal is so hard to file down. Still yet to figure out if it is a keeper or just order a bone one from DB.

On my old Strat I didn't use the whammy bar and just wound in the spring claw as tight as it would go, put 3-5 springs on and that gave it a helluva lot of sustain. Suppose if you want to use a whammy the compromise is a drop in sustain.

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That's true, apparently Eric Clapton blocks the trems on his Strats to get better sustain, he tends to do quite a bit of string-bending too, I seem to remember reading somewhere in an Interview that Yngwie Malmsteen said he puts Brass Nuts on his Strats so that he could get the tone of the open-strings more consistant with the fretted notes, I think that the benefits are open to debate, and I've always tried to keep an open mind about it, but really it all comes down to what works for a particular guitarist.

From my experience as an apprentice Fitter and Machinist, I've found that Brass is actually not really all that hard, but your experience has obviously been different to mine, anyway, some people like them, other's don't.

Red and black look great...hopefully you'll get some more time to work on your axe soon