Busted a my nut!

[SenorQueso]

Just now I was tunning my G string, and I accidently tuned too High and it broke. Now I never noticed this but part of my nut was loose and it just broke off. My bass is the Warwick Standard Corvette. What do I do to fix it? And will the bass ever sound the same? Is it like permanant damage too it? I'm so worried right now.

[Turnaround]

A broken nut is not a big deal. Any decent repair shop will be able to replace it. If it's done decently the instrument will play and sound as good as ever - perhaps even better

[Nick Ioannucci]

yeah man no biggie, just go to your local shop and tell them you need a new nut, any decent place should be able to to it quite nicely.

[Hyper-Flexion]

i actually knew this was a warwick thread before i opened...i had this same problem on my vette...i actually ended up getting a guy in houston that makes classical guitars to make me a bone nut for it...cost me about $40...well worth it. my wick even sounds better

[SenorQueso]

This is an extremely great breath of fresh air. I really thought the bass was done for! Thanks for the info guys.

[McHaven]

If the nut just simply came out of the slot, and didn't crack in pieces, you can reglue it. When my thunderbird arrived, the nut had been knocked out during shipping. All I did was get a little bit of Elmer's Glue and glued the nut back into position. This of course, was a plastic nut. I don't know how well it would work with a brass or bone nut, if that is what Warwick uses.

[spudmaster34]

If you are getting it redone, my recomendation would be graph-tech, many others like things like bone, but I am a big graph-tech fan

[W()()D_()nly]

Yeah I had the same prob with my ajust a nut on my streamer and just had a graphite one made.

plays wayyyy warmer after too.


Don't try going through warwick its more pain than you want to try.

[spudmaster34]

hey, if you didn't already get it fixed (you probably did) heres a little tutorial I just put together Spud's easy to follow nut replacement thread