It's amazing how a simple change in material composition can impact the tone to a large degree.
On my guitars(6string), I changed all my nuts to bone. Now they have great tone. My Strat had a vintage style tremolo with a cheap "pot metal" block and I changed it for a steel block. It improved the tone so much, it's like a completely different guitar.
On my CBG's, I usually have a brass bolt for nut and steel bolt for bridge or a mix of steel and bone, brass and wood. Just depends on what you want and need. This can start arguments on some forums about the tone certain materials can add. To me, steel offers a brighter sound, brass offers a warmer tone(some claim it helps with sustain) and bone sounds 50% better than plastic to me. Plastic just sounds dull to my ears. Nothing wrong with a wooden bridge if that's the tone your after, seen a lot of them on resonator guitars and CBG's.
I like the sustain the fret wire nut delivers from string contact against steel vs a softer resonance I was getting when using just hardwood nut or brass bolt.
Now that's something I haven't thought of. The only problem would be wandering string position which could be fixed with the spacer nut that get sold with the zero fret or something like it.
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It's amazing how a simple change in material composition can impact the tone to a large degree.
On my guitars(6string), I changed all my nuts to bone. Now they have great tone. My Strat had a vintage style tremolo with a cheap "pot metal" block and I changed it for a steel block. It improved the tone so much, it's like a completely different guitar.
On my CBG's, I usually have a brass bolt for nut and steel bolt for bridge or a mix of steel and bone, brass and wood. Just depends on what you want and need. This can start arguments on some forums about the tone certain materials can add. To me, steel offers a brighter sound, brass offers a warmer tone(some claim it helps with sustain) and bone sounds 50% better than plastic to me. Plastic just sounds dull to my ears. Nothing wrong with a wooden bridge if that's the tone your after, seen a lot of them on resonator guitars and CBG's.
I like the sustain the fret wire nut delivers from string contact against steel vs a softer resonance I was getting when using just hardwood nut or brass bolt.
Great idea.
i just strike a line with my small file to 'keep' the string in place. works great....
Now that's something I haven't thought of. The only problem would be wandering string position which could be fixed with the spacer nut that get sold with the zero fret or something like it.