A sketch for a system for changing the string height of an instrument at the "nut" end to facilitate both a very low action for easy fretted playing and a high action for heavy slide playing.
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Actually, now I look at it again, I made a slight error in the drawings. The main "nut" (actually more of a string spacer) should be higher so the strings still pass through it when they're raised up by the secondary nut. My thinking was that the removeable secondary nut then doesn't need grooves to maintain string spacing and is just a plain bar.
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