Just a couple of points - when copying the original nut don't presume it has the correct spacing. Also, rather than trim both ends of the nut when fitted, the nut can be slid over. The waste is trimmed off just the one side before fitting with a final clean up when in place. This gies a better appearance with less chance of marking the finish.

"A pain in the ass" That's an understatement. You did a good job. Nice guitar

That is a stonking piece of wood. Nudges 'butterscotch' out of the way a bit with the subtle front pattern.

How does such a nice looking instrument end up with a rounded nut in a flat slot? Little wonder it didn't sound very good. If that's a kit I'd love to know from whom.......

Owner : 'Me give you lump of brass. You make into brass nut!' Woodeso : 'Huh?'

Great job. That neck has an awesome grain pattern. Now the only thing left to do idd EVO gold frets & everything will be gold!

How often did you see MacGyver whit a hammer? Might I suggest a rawhide hammer and a set of welding tip cleaners (they are tiny round files and work great for nut slotting, not to mention cleaning out your welding tips). I think I'll go out to my tiny shop and make a brass nut for my Ovation Celebrity. Thanks for the vid.

I had a 1982 Guild M80 guitar with a brass nut and I loved it! Also loved the Black Shuck rendition at the end! 🎼🤘😆👍🎶

Quilt top looks stellar!

I have several brass nuts on guitars I love them I cut a few myself.

Another very informative vid! I'd always wondered about the minutiae of hand machining in a brass nut. I'm putting together a Warmoth (the necks virtually play themselves!), & I'm hoping the Fender YJM brass nut is a drop in & walk. I doubt it, so THX for this vid!

That baby looks sweet all polished up. The guitar is a humdinger as well.

Nice work man! I did the same on my '16 Les Paul. Pain in the ass, but great results. Plus, the polished brass looks like a nice piece of jewelry. Cheers!

Fingering. Nuts. G-String. Hehe gotta love all the unintentional guitar innuendo.

great job Nelson, sweet sounding and great looking tele,

It's high time you invest in a Dremel tool, or an arbor grinder. Most of the shaping work could have been done in a couple of passes. also radiused sanding blocks would have eliminated some of the guesswork from the shaping process.

@jimkendrick6188

6 жыл бұрын

Matthew Clifford Maybe make some jig's, get some power behind it. Half hour,done. ?

Damn, that thing shines like a diamond in a goat's ass, nice job!

Very nice job considering the tricky material to work with.

Looking good

HEY! WHERE CAN I GET A SET OF THOSE FILES???????

Beautiful guitar . And great job on its nut !!!

great looking guitar for a kit. You need to find out from theowner what the brand is. Nut turned out nice.

The suffering is palpable in this video. I will never take getting a brass nut installed lightly, thank you sir

Found an awesome trick to help you out there. When aligning your nut for height only radius sand it back and forth with some double sided sticky tape. Valhalla instant radius! Love what your doing. Would love to hear a nut made of Stainless Steel!

Dude, nice work with the brass. Cool looking Telephone too.

Nice job....i sprayed mine with laquer for metals after i buffed it so that the air wont oxidize it and has to be polished to a shine every couple of weeks.....Now its shiny and perfect everytime hehe.

What kind of file set were you using to cut the nut spacing? ....... JRW

A lot of work for MacGyver this time! You know, there are already slotted brass nuts you can buy with even the right size.

@BOBANDVEG

3 жыл бұрын

I like it. I play metal and rockblues, really picks up the sound

@popogejo7245

2 жыл бұрын

I'm going back to blanks! I order precuts and they never seem to be measured correctly, and brass always needs work to get it fitted right anyway, so why not match the nut that came off by cutting it miself?

Sweet Homebrew tele! That brass nut, as cool as it is.....must have been a huuugggeee pain in the place where ya sit! For sure!! Looks great though, Not a bad guitar at all, Nelson....your good, your good bud! Hope ya get to feelin' better. Good times, Good video

@WoodesosGuitarMods

7 жыл бұрын

...and then we cheeched;-)

@bryantrockwell5388

7 жыл бұрын

STOVEPIPE!!

Good job cutting the nut. No doubt that brass is much harder to work with than more standard nut materials. The guitar looks really good for a kit guitar.

@Disco58

6 жыл бұрын

It looks good, period

Beautiful work way to go!

Great job did you use any kind of adhesive on the nut please let me know if you get a chance thank you very much Sergeant Velez I have the same guitar seems to play well doesn't have no trouble with the nut but I've been thinking about upgrading it with a brass nut these guitars are pretty good for the price have excellent sound I have many types of guitars all the way from stratocasters telecasters high-end guitars this guitar is a good guitar and you can't beat the price I have a d'angelico 12 string electric guitar and the one corzet at that I have. I purchased it about 7 months ago and I cannot believe the song compared to some higher-end guitars that I have the Chinese are getting better and better and making guitars that's for sure I usually don't buy nothing is not American but I found one on eBay and I said he'll let me take a chance with it it turned out to be that I was a great guitar it is a great guitar. I would like to change the knot to a brass nut axe Master is got some good selection of nuts for this particular guitar thank you very much sincerely yours Master Gunnery Sergeant United States Marine Corps Semper Fidelis

turned out really nice!

Uhu telecaster ! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Are you ever going to make more videos on that tube amp you made from that old radio? Actually, would you be interested in selling it?

Nice work! Btw what was that kick ass little riff you were jammin near the very end of the vid? Sounded awesome!

that guitar looks sick!

That’s one nice looking guitar

Hi.what do you think about as far as a brass nut or bone,i just got a U.S.A. Fender strat no a cheap one i payed $2200 au as i live in Sydney Australia,the standard strat HSS with the shawbucker humbucker.so far ive only replaced the stagared tunners for fender stagard locking tunners,do you think brass nut gives any more or less sustain,or is it down to looks.ide think if brass used with trem it would thenk the strings would work against the brass nut like a file,

@kaceyholck1731

6 жыл бұрын

the open note would be much brighter and have more sustain. the saddles play a part in the sustain of fretted notes as so does the frets its self. cheers.

That string tree is triggering me. It looks home made. It's HUGE! And it overhangs way too much...especially on the bass side. I'd have thought, if that were part of thkit, it would have been pre drilled and cut somewhat accurately

Nice work, nice guitar :)

What is the wood tool you used to cut the slot spacing? Is it saw blades or files? Thanks!

Nice tool! Where did you get it from?

Damn dude, nice job!

cool

I watch you every day. I'm a self taught guitar builder/luthier to and I see in about every one of your videos a roll of blue tape.lol I'm the same damn way.and I flip out when someone gets mine.its funny how so many people do a lot of things the same.keep up the good work buddy and if you ever get the time give Bryant from Tennessee a shout-out .it would make my day.thanks

Where did you get your nut files please? Those are fabulous

yea you friggin did!

Why is there a _Floyd Rose Style_ retainer bar on a garden-variety (no-tremolo at all) telecaster?!?

@Bairov

Жыл бұрын

Break angle. No staggered tuners

@lect0n7

Жыл бұрын

@@Bairov I appreciate your response, which is certainly based on active knowledge of the relative subject but… _[shaking head no]_ If I run staggered tuning machines, I run *LOCKING* Staggered Tuning Machines…now with a _Floyd Rose_ because of how locking tuning machines don’t have to be wrapped around the tuning peg multiple times, I’m not totally positive whether enough tension would be generated from the strings pulling against the tremolo springs because (and please understand what I mean) proper operation of a Floyd Rose or Floyd Style tremolo system *HEAVILY DEPENDS* on the perfect balance of the tension between the strings pulling against the tremolo springs… I, personally have a Crackle Finished _Jackson/Charvel Predator Custom_ running a Seymour Duncan Dimebucker in the bridge position (with a black _Chromatic Tuner_ pickup ring), a Seymour Duncan Duckbucker Bridge in the middle position & a Seymour Duncan hot stack Bridge pickup in the neck position, I’m running a Schaller SureClaw tremolo claw which allows to easily adjust the tension from the tremolo springs, 3 noiseless tremolo springs, I finally figured out how to make the Floyd rose tremolo work properly & by the time I get it working, mega divebombs & harmonic tremolo tricks became passé at the same time as women wearing big hair & hot pink men’s tank tops…

I was hovering over the "lets get the fcuk out" but i stuck with it till the end....your NOT a metalworker bro,but you persevered even with your bad head cold....time for a drop of schotch maybe....👍

is that guitar made by robert guilmore? he usually puts necks like that on guitars...

why is the owner stringing it with more than it needs to on a set of locking tuners? like...one or two turns

@ElMoShApPiNeSs

7 жыл бұрын

Some people just don't understand locking tuners.

@cgavin1

6 жыл бұрын

Some people just don't understand

In my opinion, that brass string tree has spoiled a beautiful looking guitar - makes it look very cheap! BTW, you did a great job in cutting and finishing the new nut!

it looks like a Warmoth guitar

20:10, what is that song you are playing? Great video!

Hey, how many hours on that man?

Looks like a Warmoth guitar... ?

U need a bag to sort out your running nose Which is like on all your videos. Dude the nut is a tad high. I have mine about 2 hairs of ov the first fret.. Very nice Tele btw. I like teles coz Wilko Johnson played one. U did a mega Job on the polish

What type of glue did you use to glue down the bass nut?

Nice tele, but that string retainer looks awful. Keep up the good work Nelson !

what saw did you use to cut the nut?

he should of bought a pre slotted nut

I'm assuming one of these would outlast the instrument?

Hi Nelson, Get back on youtube....!!!

What file are you using

What is the tool you use to cut the slots?

I never got that lucky to just pull a nut out of a guitar especially Fender Style.

I've never tried hazelnuts before

Looks like a Tony McKenzie Tele

@WoodesosGuitarMods

7 жыл бұрын

Good call eh... it's totally something he'd have!

@FelixIsMyName

7 жыл бұрын

I'll have to drop him a message as this is right up his street!

Such a cranky man ,,,

Brass nuts are to soft, ask Gibson how many they had to replace on the 2015 models.

you should have changed the tuners

Sorry to burst your bubble but, technically, those are not frets but are called fret wires officially no matter what the general public decides that they want to ignorantly call them. Putting the radius on the nut is just extra work that is not required.

Black Shuck!

I mean, it just seems so obvious that the nut material should have similar sonic qualities for open notes as fretted notes.

What is your opinion on those brass nuts

@Disco58

6 жыл бұрын

Sometimes it takes a big pair to get things done....

100 years later......I can even imagine the pain in the ass to file and round down a brass nut. I'd go apeshit and want to break ALL the things.

does it sound better with the brass nut?

@quintinolix1035

7 жыл бұрын

it'll probably only make a difference when the strings are played open

Like your videos. But you really need a box of tissues. Nothing more annoying than hearing that sound every 1minute

@ASSman864

5 жыл бұрын

Blowing your nose is actually counter intuitive

The hammer made me CRINGE!

too much sniffing

good vid until the 'playing' lol