I'm getting ready to install a brass nut on a Spector Legend Custom, and was wondering what adhesive people would recommend for this? Here's the headstock:
Just a little drop of SuperGlue or other brand equivalent. You want just enough to hold it in place, but still be able to remove it with not too much effort, should you ever have to remove it.
That's what I've always done, but I've never installed brass before, so I thought I would ask... Also, this particular nut doesn't sit in a slot like any other I've installed, it kind of butts up against the end of the fretboard and the top of the headstock... I don't know if you can tell by the pic, but that's the situation...
Super Glue, just a drop, is good. I’ve also seen Testors model cement in the orange tube used on plastic or bone. Not sure if it would work on brass.
actually, almost any glue you'd use around the house will work: the idea is to hold the nut in place until the strings are tuned + the least amount of that particular glue type to do it.
And it needs to not shift from side to side under normal conditions - which includes the occasional bump. BTW, why are drummers' cymbals always at the perfect height to inflict damage on bass headstocks? Is it a conspiracy?
I use this stuff; the replacement for Ambroid - the original wood modeler's glue. Just a couple of small drops, preferably between the end of the fretboard and the nut is all you need. Yes, it will work on brass; it's what's been holding the brass nut on my Rick 4001 for... a long time, now. This kind of glue dries "Brittle"; it will hold fine until you give it a fairly light tap. Then it usually breaks cleanly, without pulling any wood with it; unless it's a balsa wood model... Cleans off stuff pretty easily, too...
never tried that stuff, but i use a little CA for the very same reason. dries hard and brittle for good vibration transfer, breaks loose cleanly with the tap of a small hammer.
That brings back memories....Good old Ambroid Cement. I started using it more than 50 years ago on my balsa model airplanes. I think I would order it from SIG. Back when "ordering" meant filling out a paper form with a pencil and putting it in the mail. I used to spend hours drooling over the SIG catalog. Well, I'll be darned. I just looked up the SIG company, and they are still around. Celebrating 66 years. I'm sure many of us bass builders started out building balsa wood model airplanes.
Why? The tension of six strings holds it in place. Besides,it gets taken off when I periodically dress the fretless fingerboard.