Moo's TLA-1 - My First Build

[andrewdosborne]

Nice decals Moo

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[wokkaboy]

cool headstock logo's Moo, love the anchor theme being a Freo Dockers fan ! Birds on the front look great !

[Simon Barden]

Get a flat-bottomed one. By the time you flatten a curved one, you have lost too much height, and trying to fit a curved one when it should be flat is a Bad Thing. You need a good contact between the bottom of the nut and the neck.

[Moo]

Get a flat-bottomed one. By the time you flatten a curved one, you have lost too much height, and trying to fit a curved one when it should be flat is a Bad Thing. You need a good contact between the bottom of the nut and the neck.

Thanks Simon. Sounds like good advice I wasn't really planning on getting a bone anyway, it was just that this one came up free. But the guy selling actually originally bought it for a PBG kit and said it wouldn't fit, so I'll pass.

[Andy40]

Moo if you can get your hands on a flat bottomed bone nut I can tell you its worth it. The improvements in tone are well worth the investment.

[Moo]

Moo if you can get your hands on a flat bottomed bone nut I can tell you its worth it. The improvements in tone are well worth the investment.

Hmm, interesting. I assumed that given I am starting off with just the cheap stock pickups that the nut wouldn't be worth it unless I'm going to invest in better pups?
Initial plan was to start out with stock stuff and see how it plays and then make upgrades if I think it's worth it.

[dave.king1]

Hmm, interesting. I assumed that given I am starting off with just the cheap stock pickups that the nut wouldn't be worth it unless I'm going to invest in better pups?
Initial plan was to start out with stock stuff and see how it plays and then make upgrades if I think it's worth it.

The plastic nut is soft and dull sounding and despite being cheap the kit pups aren't all that bad.

I have recorded with my STA with a replacement bone nut and standard pups was pleasantly surprised, it now has Seymour Duncan stacked HBs and sounds quite different

[wazkelly]

Hi Moo, the standard nut is flat bottomed not radiused.

Stock plastic ones can be a bit dull but no different to a lot of budget priced finished guitars. Besides most of the bolt-on known brand names for this shape come standard with plastic nuts. The sound difference is most obvious on open string notes and eventually once you decide to spend the extra coin on a bone nut it is not too hard to swap out the plastic one on a Tele neck.

[Simon Barden]

Here in the UK, a generic bone nut for Fender or Gibson style guitars are almost as cheap as replacement plastic ones on eBay.

[wazkelly]

Here in the UK, a generic bone nut for Fender or Gibson style guitars are almost as cheap as replacement plastic ones on eBay.

Yeah Simon, they are but not all come in the right size which can vary between 41mm, 42mm or 43mm wide and the wider they are the string spacings are also wider too. Then you have the height differences where some have been cut very shallow and almost require a spacer or shim under them to stop fret buzzing from the get go whereas others are too high and you then require the right tools to cut string slots deeper or spend half a day sanding some thickness off the base.