Thanks Zandit ... there's something great about wrestling with the wood with your bare hands!Originally Posted by Zandit75
Thanks Zandit ... there's something great about wrestling with the wood with your bare hands!
After I did the first build on the bass I found that the action still appeared to be high after I'd done some adjustment to the truss rod and bridge. It looked like the height at the nut was probably too high. I did some investigating on the web about string height at the nut for fretless bass. Looks like there's an element of "personal taste" out there, but the general consensus seems to be that the strings should be about the thickness of a business card above the neck.
The nut that came on the neck in the kit had the strings set pretty high (about 2mm) and needed to be lowered, so I figured that I'd need to do something about it.
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I own another bass that has a height adjustable nut and thought that it might be good to see if I could find one and fit it to my project. That'd give me the ability to play around with the action and work out what I thought was good.
Once I got the part I looked online for some advice about how to get the existing nut off ... the advice was to get a block of timber, put it against the nut and tap gently ... it should just pop out! Actual result was a little different, the nut broke off in one section, but I wasn't too worried, as I wasn't planning on keeping it.
Next step was to make space for the new nut using a fine saw, a chisel and some small files.
Pretty happy with the result ... still need to do a little tweaking to get it right ...
Last edited by ThreeBbass; 10-09-2016 at 09:28 AM.
nice job 3bass that nut looks cool. Are those allen key screws to adjust the height ?
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Yep ... Allen keys to adjust height ...nice job 3bass that nut looks cool. Are those allen key screws to adjust the height ?
ohhhh special nut
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Geez, that nut is a great idea. Where did you buy it as I may be interested in a couple in 4 and one in 5 string.
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I might need to get one of those Nuts for my Yamaha ERB300 Bass Guitar, the 1st fret action on it is a bit too low so that the A and D strings buzz against the first fret.
The nut is a Warwick Just-A-Nut ... found a guy on eBay who was selling them ...
Presume he is the guy at Cherrybrook NSW? Just ordered a 5 string one.
Thanks for the tip.
# 1 - EX-5 https://goo.gl/fQJMqh
# 2 - EX-1 https://goo.gl/KSY9W9
# 3 - Non PBG Tele https://goo.gl/W14G5g
# 4 - Non PBG J Bass https://goo.gl/FbBaFy
# 5 - TL-1AR GOTM Aug 2017 https://goo.gl/sUh14s
# 6 - MMB-4 Runner-up GOTM Oct 2018https://goo.gl/gvrPkp
# 7 - ES-1 Runner-up GOTM Aug 2018https://goo.gl/T9BEY8
yup ... that's the guy ...
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