Music City Bridge
Nut Slot Gauge
Nut Slot Gauge
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Introducing the Music City Bridge “Nut Slot Gauge.” This simple and effective tool ensures you achieve the lowest possible nut action while eliminating open-string buzz.
With four built-in preferences of bump up above a "zero" fret - 0.000 (in thousandths of inches), 0.003, 0.005, and 0.008, the Nut Slot Gauge easily and accurately measures your nut slots' current height, with or without strings, and unaffected by action or the truss rod setting. This helps you achieve the softest feel and also the least detuning due to grip.
How to use the Nut Slot Gauge:
- Move the string out of the slot.
- Place the measuring gauge into the slot and slide the tool toward the bridge.
- If you hear a click, then the nut is taller than the gauge.
- If you don't, the nut is lower than the gauge.
"The nut slot height is one of the most critical and routinely neglected aspects of a great guitar setup. It is difficult to control the depth within the tight tolerances that are required. You work the slot down slowly until it’s just right, but if you go too far the string buzzes and you have to start again! The Music City Bridge “Nut Slot Gauge” provides the instant and dependable working feedback necessary to control and refine slot depth and deliver a top-notch nut setup every time."
- Ned Steinberger
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Convenient. Better than eyeball, easier than feelers. For the fellow above not understanding usage, it is embossed on the tool and there Is a video here explaining its use. Check these out and I bet you will deduce its use!
Great idea and works just as well as it should
I bought another one for a backup
I used the Nut Slot Gauge to help with my first time filing of nut slots for a T style partscaster I was putting together. Overall I found it very helpful, especially on the
Low E, A, D, & G strings, they came out perfect. It was easy to feel the right click when the slot was just right. Because it was the first time I’d done it, it took doing the high E and B strings to get the right feel. I was cutting for a 9-40 set and the high E, 9 slot was harder to judge, mainly due to the narrow slot that made it harder for the Gauge to slide into that opening. That was compounded by my unfamiliarity with the tool. That said, I would definitely use the Nut Gauge again. Great idea turned into a great aid in cutting a nut.
Supposedly, there are four measurements possible, but other than the markings there seem to be no differences from corner to corner. With no included instructions or directions, it’s about as useful as a pet rock.
This device is elegant and invaluable. Takes the guesswork out of cutting nut slots and halves the time it takes to make a new nut. Worth every penny!
If you have any doubts about your precut nut or did one yourself and one to double check your work, man does this little gauge make it easy. You’ll know if your nut is cut to spec faster than it took you down tune the string and move it out of the way. Brilliant. Next up is a Savvy for my Special. You guys are really creating some incredible products.
Cut at least a dozen nuts using this tool and I would never cut another nut without this tool. It works wonders because you know exactly how deep to cut the nut. I highly recommend this tool if you want to cut you own nuts.
This brilliant gauge makes filing consistent nut slots a breeze! I've tried multiple other tools and none are simpler/easier than this!
The studs, the savvy, and the nut slot gauge, are truly exceptional pieces....EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE THIS GAUGE FOR THE VERY REASONABLE PRICE THAT IT COST!!! A WHOLE NEW ERA IN NUT CHECKING WITH THIS TOOL...TAKES AWAY ALL THE "FUNNY" MEASURING TRICKS YOU HAVE SEEN AND HEARD ABOUT AND GIVES YOU A REAL IDEA OF NUT SLOT DEPTH!!! TOOK A MINUTE TO GET THE FEEL OF USING IT, BUT ONCE I HAD IT IT IS TRULY A REMARKABLE PIECE!!!
THANK YOU MUSIC CITY
The nut slot gauge is neat little tool. I'm still trying to get used to it. I'm having a little hard time hearing the click from time to time but i think it just me getting used to this tool.
Plus it doesn't help when you are slightly deaf on one side. lol.
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