Custom HotRod Strat Build.

[DrNomis_44]

You could try a dab of CA on each string in its slot once it's all in tune. If it still buzzes then it shouldn't be the nut that's the cause.

My Ibanez RG's locking nut hasn't got any shims under it and it's still too high for me. It's a gold finish so any filing to deepen the slots would be very obvious, plus it may cause buzzing issues. Don't want to deepen the nut slot in the wood as it's quite thin there already. Filing the bottom of the locking nut would seem to be about the only means of lowering it, but I'm still rather scared of weakening the whole thing.

Once I got all the strings tuned up to pitch, I did some checking to find the cause of the buzzing, I did this by fretting the buzzing strings behind the first fret, when the strings were played open (not fretted) the buzzing was there and audible, soon as I fretted the strings the buzzing stopped, indicating that the Locking Nut was the cause, so I'm going to have to replace it with something better.


As a bit of troubleshooting, I removed the black Gotoh Locking Nut I had installed on the neck of my white Ibanez RG 350DXZ guitar, and I have installed it on the neck of the HotRod Strat, the string notches of the Black Gotoh Locking Nut were cut narrower than the ones on the other three Chrome Locking Nuts I have, so the strings should sound a lot cleaner, I tuned the HotRod Strat back up to pitch and now, all the strings are sounding a lot cleaner, those Chrome Locking Nuts were the cause of the problem after all, looks like I'm going to have to order a new Locking Nut from Realtone Music soon.