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Music City Bridge

Nut Slot Gauge

Nut Slot Gauge

$18.99 USD
$18.99 USD
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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:

  1. Move the string out of the slot.
  2. Place the measuring gauge into the slot and slide the tool toward the bridge.
  3. If you hear a click, then the nut is taller than the gauge.
  4. 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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Curt Snyder
NUT SLOT GAUGE

I ordered the slot gauge a few months back and did a few string nuts to set the depths. The setups using this gauge are extremely accurate. I ordered a spare a a few weeks back. What a very ingenious idea. I now would not be caught dead without out this gauge. I will more than likely buy a few more.

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Matt davis
Absolute must!!

This tool is a superlative idea!! It’s accurate, I checked on a comparator. Real time saver and just a great quick reference!!

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Greg Banic
Nut slot gauge

Great tool, really helped in getting the most out the nut adjustment. I always had a habit of having the plain strings a little too high, now I can be consistent with my setups and have the option to set the strings to the players preference with out the guess work.

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M. Harder
nut slot guage

Haven't had a chance to use it yet but am looking forward to my next setup.

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John McPartland
Nut slot Guage

I don't know how many nuts I've blown over the years. Those tool definitely helps prevent this from happening. Fast shipping also!

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Will
Set up K. Yairi 00.

Used on my K. Yairi 00 when setting for first time. Action was felt great from factory, when using gauge, it was between 3 and 5 at roughly 4 to 4.5 which was perfect. Will really speed up making nut adjustments and new nuts in the future. Thanks, Will.

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Weinstein
Great bang for the bucks

Very handy tool - easy to use and makes a touchy job a breeze to get right.

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John Cowardin
A simple and brilliant tool

This thing is such a simple yet effective tool. These kinds of tools make me wonder how anyone ever thought of it.Glad to have this in the toolbox

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Jeffrey

Great value for very useful tool

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Paul Stumbo
Got it

I received the very well made tool and learned how to us it and inspected several guitars of different scale lengths and was super surprised at the status variations on the various strings both between guitars and on same guitar. Tells me this is a highly either ignored area or players are less sensitive to it than thought. Where I am going use this tool is going to be the first step in setups versus last. (This is something I’ve never come to grips with, I’ve always believed it should be first. I’m sure there will be push back.) If you set nut height first and capo at first fret and set relief (to personal preference, I like ~none) and bridge height where a hard struck string doesn’t buzz, in that order works for me. If you adjust nut last I think solid chance bridge gets readjusted to get rid of buzz.

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