Got an issue with my nut on my strat. Initially the nut wasn’t cut, the slots were shallow and I had issues when setting up the guitar. The action at the first few frets was really high and the intonation would be way off. I read into filing down the nut slots, I did this and it fixed the issue with the action and the intonation, the guitar plays pretty good. Although as you can see in the photo below, to get it to that point I ended up filing the slots really deep, and I’ve noticed when tuning, the strings gets caught in the nut a bit. Is there any way of salvaging this nut somehow or is it better to replace it with a new nut? I do have a new bone nut but I’m not sure how to remove the old nut and install the new nut. Any advice will be most welcome?
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