Who can cut a good nut in my area?

Some of us prefer the nut cut low.

 

Was the open string buzz an issue as soon as you got your bass back? I find it hard to believe that any respectable shop would have let a bass out with open string buzz.

Have you tried making your own nut?

 

first couple or first fret?

if you fretted the first and it buzzed against the second, the problem is not the nut.

 

for a second I had a great joke about.....LMAO!

 

Put a paper shim in the E nut slot to raise the string slightly and see if that cures your problem.

 

Hi.

Then there's more wrong than just the nut. A low nut rattles only on the first fret.

More likely, You need to add some relief to the neck due to the changes in temperature ad/or humidity

While people who post nut related threads wish and expect such jokes, we probably have heard 'em all already.

^This.

I use aluminium from a soda/beer can or aluminium or copper foil though, but paper works as well.

Regards
Sam

 

Check your nut slot depth(s) by measuring the gap between the string bottom > first fret while fretted at the third. You should be seeing .003-.005". No feeler gauges? Try the ping test: fret at the third and quickly tap the string directly above the first fret. You should hear a distinctive "ping" as the string strikes the fret and bounces back. No ping? You've got problems.

Riis

 

If the slots are angled / shaped properly, then that pretty much takes the nut out of contention. Okay, next question: where's your relief set? .012" is a good starting point.

Riis

 

You're certainly in the ballpark. Rule-of-thumb: .012-.014" with the 1st and ~19th fretted, measure at the 8th fret. No guarantee on this one as a neck can measure out with the proper relief but still have some other wacky stuff going on with the fretboard topography.

Riis

 

listen to the riis, he's spot-on.

 

in that case, try keeping the neck fairly flat, .010 or .012, but kicking up the saddles a pinch.

that way, you get the additional height where it makes a sound difference, over the vibrating part of the string, as opposed to in the dead length between the fret and the nut, where it doesn't.