nut materials

Orpheo

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for a while, we've been stuck with bone, tusq/graphite, corian and some metals as materials for nuts. Why dont we guitarplayers use wood nuts? on a violin, they use an ebony nut. why cant a guitar have a wooden nut? I ask this, because I've been thinking about making a nut, made out of some leftover pieces ziricote.
 
Well as long as it's a durable piece of wood, I don't see why it wouldn't work. Custom builders use all kind of nut materials, including wood (I've seen padauk and ebony myself).
 
But the violin strings aren't as thin as the guitar's. The high e-string will cut through the wood bit by bit i think, but if you choose very hard wood, it could work.
 
Multifruit said:
But the violin strings aren't as thin as the guitar's. The high e-string will cut through the wood bit by bit i think, but if you choose very hard wood, it could work.

true. but I've cut a piece of ziricote, and a piece of graphtech nut, and the latter is much more 'workable' than the wood...
 
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