Nut Glue
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Cagey
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Franklin's Titebond II. It grips the nut just tight enough that it won't fall off, while allowing you to knock it off without destroying things when it's time for it to be replaced.
guitarslinger
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I've used Titebond, but find simple Elmers works just as well.
lightsoundgeometry
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I use stew mac two part epoxy for everything or else gorilla glue which makes various bonding solution eg metal, wood, general purpose.
gorilla glue expands a lot and can be messy
gorilla glue expands a lot and can be messy
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nah lol ..a block of wood and a rubber mallet pops er right off
got me a nice piece of bone to go on my Warmoth when it arrives
got me a nice piece of bone to go on my Warmoth when it arrives
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lightsoundgeometry said:
I've seen several examples of what happens when you take a block of wood and a rubber mallet and try to pop the nut off ... the nut comes off alright, but often parts of the fretboard or neckwood comes off with it, when the nut is glued on with something like superglue or epoxy.
So, no, never use something like that. Follow the advice of Cagey and AirCap and "Stewie" himself:
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lightsoundgeometry
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I love the stew mac channel 
I dont mess with too many, or have ever, the gorilla glue doesnt dry as hard as you think and with score it came off. Ive only done a few overall in my lifetime, one was so long ago i cant remember and probably did chip it all up. the recent one was with the afd epi slash and its a bit different than the other necks as the back is pretty much open. I dont think you could do that with a regular strat neck.
I did learn a lot on that epi. I have a squier here to practice on too, but it plays so nice I dont want to take it apart and put the bone on it. the warmoth neck I have coming is without a nut so this will be my first time installing one new; still dont know how to properly file the nuts either..hopefully Dan E has a tutorial up. Wouldnt mind getting me a set of proper files as the only real one I have is a .11 B string .
Thats why I am doing this ..i want to learn. There is a shop here is stl that is great, they do the wood instruments for the symphony too, but I enjoy doing it. no epoxy!
I dont mess with too many, or have ever, the gorilla glue doesnt dry as hard as you think and with score it came off. Ive only done a few overall in my lifetime, one was so long ago i cant remember and probably did chip it all up. the recent one was with the afd epi slash and its a bit different than the other necks as the back is pretty much open. I dont think you could do that with a regular strat neck.
I did learn a lot on that epi. I have a squier here to practice on too, but it plays so nice I dont want to take it apart and put the bone on it. the warmoth neck I have coming is without a nut so this will be my first time installing one new; still dont know how to properly file the nuts either..hopefully Dan E has a tutorial up. Wouldnt mind getting me a set of proper files as the only real one I have is a .11 B string .
Thats why I am doing this ..i want to learn. There is a shop here is stl that is great, they do the wood instruments for the symphony too, but I enjoy doing it. no epoxy!
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Nut files are expensive, but essential. The files you get from Warmoth, StewMac, and a few others are the good ones made by Hiroshima Yasuri. They're about the best you can get, and worth the money. Fortunately, there's a company up in Canada called JAPARTS that sells those files without the private labelling at a much more reasonable price. You can buy individual sizes, or they have sets to match string gauge sets.
They're not the one-stop shopping outlet for luthiers that StewMac, Luthier's Mercantile or Philadelphia luthier are, but they do have a bunch of other files and stuff for sale, too. You might want to check them out.
A side note on the nut files - the finer gauges are surprisingly easy to break as the metal is somewhat brittle and necessarily thin. One of these days, somebody's gonna come up with a file holder that'll keep those things from flexing and they'll probably sell 100K of them the first year. In the meantime, either buy spares or learn to hold them in the middle so they're less likely to flex. Go slow on the draw, don't push them, and don't try to cut too much in one round. When you get close to the depth you want/need to be, only do one or two pulls and check your depth. You can always cut more, but you can't put it back if you cut too much. It's quite frustrating to spend an hour fabbing a nut only to overcut the B string and have to start over. It's called "blowing a nut" and you don't want to have to say you did that out loud :laughing7:
They're not the one-stop shopping outlet for luthiers that StewMac, Luthier's Mercantile or Philadelphia luthier are, but they do have a bunch of other files and stuff for sale, too. You might want to check them out.
A side note on the nut files - the finer gauges are surprisingly easy to break as the metal is somewhat brittle and necessarily thin. One of these days, somebody's gonna come up with a file holder that'll keep those things from flexing and they'll probably sell 100K of them the first year. In the meantime, either buy spares or learn to hold them in the middle so they're less likely to flex. Go slow on the draw, don't push them, and don't try to cut too much in one round. When you get close to the depth you want/need to be, only do one or two pulls and check your depth. You can always cut more, but you can't put it back if you cut too much. It's quite frustrating to spend an hour fabbing a nut only to overcut the B string and have to start over. It's called "blowing a nut" and you don't want to have to say you did that out loud :laughing7:
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Rgand said:
I don't use the stuff for much of anything - too messy and obvious - but I know what you say is true. You can glue things together that shouldn't go together, and they'll stay together. I know a guy who used it to glue a neck on a Strat, and it held for years. It may still be holding on, but somebody stole it so we'll never know. But, nuts? No. Never.
