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  • Daniel Walter June 23, 2019 at 1:25pm

    i'm digging it. how do you know what size fret to use? swap them out? i used to use finishing nails, slide one in, if too large or small, slide a different one in.

    • KOOL DOG HOOCH > Daniel Walter June 23, 2019 at 1:29pm

      Use the jumbo(large fret) it's used pretty much allot the time for a zero fret. At least that's my understanding!

  • Tom T June 16, 2019 at 5:23pm
    Sounds like a good solution, Taffy, but it does sound like a lot of labor.
    So many ways to skin that cat......
  • Taffy Evans June 16, 2019 at 4:42pm

    Hi, on some acoustic guitars I built in the 1980's I used this idea.

    i made the bone nut blank extra wide put a saw cut down its length and on one side of the cut I shaped the nut and and slotted it, on the other side I shaped the zero fret. Nut and fret all in one piece. 

    I thought it a was good idea so as to be different, but too labour intensive.

    Taff

  • Tom T June 16, 2019 at 2:05pm
    I usually just use a bit of epoxy between the nut and neck to stabilize it.
  • Tom T June 16, 2019 at 6:31am

    I've been using something like this

    John Lee 7.jpg

    • KOOL DOG HOOCH > Tom T June 16, 2019 at 8:43am

      How is the nut attached or is it free floating, held in place by string pressure? Not the fret, the bone.

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