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Quick question - are the nuts on NYC basses glued in at all or just friction fit? Changing strings on a new-to-me verdine white satin and the nut just fell out. Morado fretboard. I just slotted it back in, held in by string tension for now.
My satin deluxe jazz was the same....I asked Roger and he said to put a small spot of wood glue on it. I'm waiting on a just a nut coming as I would like the nut a bit lower and don't want to mess with the original.....I have a just a nut on my german metroline, and although I was very sceptical at first, I now see the benefit of it.
Funny, my deluxe verdine satin did the same thing. I have it held in by tension as I didn't have any wood glue handy when I did my string change. Its been like that for a while with no issues but I need to eventually glue it into place.
My nut also fell out while changes strings on my RSD. I couldn't find any wood glue so I used a small dab of some kind of sealer I found. Hay it worked.
I have a '90 Sadowsky where the nut will fall out with a push, as well. In the world of guitar maintenance/repair, the nut should not be glued in a way that is permanent and impossible to remove later. Lots of possible damage and/or work can be avoided by using no glue on the nut, or a gentle glue like hide glue. Even then only a tiny amount is necessary. Press fit, as in my old Sadowsky, seems to be the ideal.
This is Talkbass, and nobody here seems to own a bass long enough to require a refret or new nut, but the nut will have to come off to do those tasks. This building technique is an investment in time that helps the next service person, and is totally normal in well built guitars.
This is Talkbass, and nobody here seems to own a bass long enough to require a refret or new nut, but the nut will have to come off to do those tasks. This building technique is an investment in time that helps the next service person, and is totally normal in well built guitars.
My Metro did the same thing when I first got it around 7-8 years ago. I just used a little Elmer's and haven't had any issues since. I don't think you want to use any type of permant glue like super glue incase you have to change the nut at some point down the road.
Sadly, this is not universally known or accepted in the world of guitar maintenance. I've seen nuts with glue seeping out onto the fretboard and headstock.
Weird case: a friend picked up his Jackson pointy-headstock guitar from a tech after some fretwork. All seemed well, but when he checked the guitar a week later, the nut had slid 1/2" sideways by string pull, so that the B and E strings were off the fretboard down near the nut. I assume offset headstocks are justification for more-than-a-little-bit of glue, but when that's the case, give the damn glue time to dry before stringing the guitar! Bottom line: a great benefit of guitars with straight string pull at the nut is no worry about this nonsense.
I resemble this statement, but for me its more like "nobody here seems to own a bass long enough to replace STRINGS"
I don’t know if it can be quantified but I wonder what impact Talkbass has on industry wide Bass gear sales...
Especially if they’re flats.
Neutral. We all promote bass playing, and many if not most TBers own numerous basses. But we trade and sell among ourselves more than we buy new ones, I suspect.
How many bass players do you meet, in your normal course of a day, when you ask them “are you on Talkbass?” And you get this blank stare. All I’m saying is it’s been about 100 percent of the time for me, other than those I have met after getting to know them on here.
however, the market for higher end/pro level stuff I have to think is greatly influenced by this place.
however, the market for higher end/pro level stuff I have to think is greatly influenced by this place.
People who I talk to have either never heard of this forum or engage in a series of negative comments about it. Applies to local guys as well as high-profile, well-known BP Magazine cover players. This can be a pretty snobbish, adversarial, and elitist place.
That said, the Sadowsky users and Fodera users appear to be the best behaved and most knowledgeable here. It might be a result of solidarity from paying way too much for guitars with a fancy name on the headstock that aren’t as great as everybody says they are!
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Wow.. very rarely do you see Trolls within.
It can be, but that's to be expected: it's on the internet, after all! Dickishness that doesn't cross the line can't be punished, but the TB mods quickly deal with troglodytes and because of that I hang here and not in any of the unmoderated/poorly-moderated forums.
It's true that a lot of people haven't heard of TalkBass. A lot of that is my fault: I only mention TB to those I think deserve to be here.
And as mentioned, there are a lot of gear brands that are popular here but not so much outside of TB. I still run into other bassists who are unaware of Sadowsky, Bergantino, Darkglass, etc.
And, without much thought, I have met on here, and later in reals life at least 50 other TBers.
Many have become most trusted friends and gear advisors. So there's that.
Many have become most trusted friends and gear advisors. So there's that.
on keeping a nut in place, all you need is a tiny bid of thin superglue. that's easy to pop out under reasonable force for a repair with very minor slot cleanup, but won't move with normal string tension (or lack thereof).
