How To Slot a Banjo Nut (or a Bridge)
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This is my process for cutting and filing nut slots in any stringed instrument: banjo, guitar, violin, &c. I use a set of StewMac nut saws and a cheap triangular needle file. Both the nut and the bridge are basically slotted the same way.
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Good tip on slot hight for fretless. I also like the alignment detail. I’m not sure I've ever hear that before.
Been waiting for this one! My nut split a couple weeks back when I put on larger gauge stings! Thanks Clif :)
Do you know the trick for filling the old slot? You can use super glue and bone dust or just buy the stuff from StewMac.
Wow, never even thought to line the slots up with the pegs. I've really neglected the nuts on the couple of banjos I've made, this'll save me from making the same mistake again!
I guess it's kind of randomly asking but do anyone know a good website to watch newly released tv shows online ?
@Maison Heath I dunno try Flixportal. You can find it on google:) -gus
@Gus Omar Thanks, I went there and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D Appreciate it!
@Maison Heath Happy to help :)
Excellent video, thank you.
Mr. Hicks, great video, thank you! I recently picked up an old 4 string tenor banjo and after replacing the tuning pegs with newer planetary tuners (which went fine) I noticed that while otherwise in tune, chords on the 1st and 2nd fret are very sharp. The problem goes away and chords sound normal as you move up the neck. Having seen somewhere that this can happen when the nut is too high, I ended up on this video to see how one ought to slot the nut to see if deepening the grooves on the nut would fix the problem. I was also thinking about trying to lightly sand the bridge as the action is much higher than I am used to and gets even higher as you go down the neck toward the pot. If you had a banjo that was otherwise holding tune but was very sharp around the 1st and 2nd fret would you do something about the nut first or attack the problem from the bridge side? A million thanks in advance.
Well I guess I did my cow bone nut wrong and I glued it with Tite Bond 3...I guess we can fix it still.
Can you makes a bridge,like a two legged one? Before I mess that up too.Good info Clif. Thanks
OK I need to do a bridge video. Will do. Titebond is OK, just use Elmer's in the future or, better yet, no glue. I explained in more detail on your Patreon comment. Thanks, Kenn.
what about hide glue? is that stuff ok to glue the nut?
@@fredflintstone5208 you don’t want the nut to tight because if you ever need to replace it things would be easier.
I just had to literally file my entire nut away because I glued it on with a lot of wood glue and then of course I notched it wrong, I’m making a new nut that I’ll just put on with a few drops of school glue.
Thanks for this video Clifton. I was wondering what is the height of the strings to the neck once the strings are sitting in the nuts for a fretless banjo. And if it is the same for both metal and nylgut strings. I converted a fretted banjo to a fretless one and wondered if the strings are not to close to the fret as I am having difficulty pulling off the strings that are closer to the nut, the first fret that is.
On fretless banjo you want the action to be lower at the nut than it would be on a fretted banjo.
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