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06-27-2008, 12:56 PM
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What is the typical 5 string nut width? I have a little under 2.5" now and it is monsterous. Serious modification but totally necessary after getting .44" between strings. <lol>  |
06-27-2008, 01:09 PM
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President, HittStreet.com; Endorsing Artist, Schroeder Cabinets | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Missouri, USA | | | 2.5! Yikes! My custom build 5er has an extra-wide nut @ 54mm (2.125"). Most are closer to 44~ mm (~1.75").
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06-27-2008, 01:19 PM
|  | *kidding* | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | I have 6ers w/2 1/8" nuts, & I consider them wide. Get out the saw. 
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06-27-2008, 01:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Arizona | | Wow... Okay. I think I'll go with a 2" nut and make a MDF template for the follower bit on my router. This is not going to be fun...   |
06-27-2008, 01:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Dana Point Ca | | | Nice looking wood! |
06-27-2008, 01:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: BARRACKVILLE WV | | 2.5" at the nut  are you build a bass or an aircraft carrier?  Just kidding. I play 5'ers and the nut width runs from about 1 5/8" to just over 2". |
06-27-2008, 01:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Bassbasixx Nice looking wood! | Thanks. <lol>
I have enough left of the center lamination to get 2 more instruments out of it. One will be a 7 string baritone geetard and the other is as yet defined. |
06-27-2008, 02:11 PM
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President, HittStreet.com; Endorsing Artist, Schroeder Cabinets | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Missouri, USA | | | That's a sexy-looking bass, but yeah, 2.5" is just nuts (har har). I can get around on my 2.125"-er with proper technique, but there's no way I would want to go wider than that unless it was on like a 7-string.
Hey, now there's an idea...
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--> Markbass LMII/Crown K2
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06-27-2008, 08:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Gladstone, QLD, Australia | | the Squier Deluxe Active V has a very wide nut @ 2.008" (51mm)...It's wide. It takes a while to get used to, but I love it...
I would probably never go wider than this...even if I went into the world of the 6er (not in this decade  ), I would still probably keep the nut to around 2"...
2.5" THAT'S WIDE...WISHBASS WIDE
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06-27-2008, 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by PilbaraBass the Squier Deluxe Active V has a very wide nut @ 2.008" (51mm)...It's wide. It takes a while to get used to, but I love it...
I would probably never go wider than this...even if I went into the world of the 6er (not in this decade ), I would still probably keep the nut to around 2"...
2.5" THAT'S WIDE...WISHBASS WIDE | by the way...the laminations on that neck are INCREDIBLE!
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06-27-2008, 09:17 PM
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President, HittStreet.com; Endorsing Artist, Schroeder Cabinets | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Missouri, USA | | | +1, a friend of mine has a bit of an obsession with the number 13 (she even has a tattoo of it); she'd love that. Very cool.
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06-27-2008, 09:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Arizona | | Thanks guys. I have CADed up the template. Hopefully I can get it done next week then reshape the profile as well.
13 is a good number in my book.  It's my little brother's favorite. If he would learn to play I would build him a bass. |
06-27-2008, 10:03 PM
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