Corian Nut

Removing a Gibson Corian Nut A regular customer of mine recently bought a 2006 Les Paul and brought it to me for a setup.

Corian nut. The nut may be made of ebony, ivory, cow bone, brass, Corian or plastic, and is usually notched or grooved for the strings. So is this my imagination. Once the note is fretted the nut is out of the sonic picture. We have built a system for precision cutting and shaping, done by a bench-top CNC mill.

I'm sold on Corian. I bought a Martin GPCPA5K in April and I recently paid a Luthier to shave the tusq saddle to lower the action and get rid of the Martin strings for Ernie Ball Acoustic 11's. This is just an FIY thread. I recently had a bone nut put in and it seemed made the guitar seem a lot brighter.

I know when you play chords it takes the nut out of the equation. Warmoth uses Corian for nuts and it's a very good nut material - not dull at all. Tusq, corian and the like feel "grabbier" to me on the wound strings than hard unbleached bone. I just did a nut using a Graphtech Tusq blank provided by the customer.

String Saver Saddles for Strat- and Tele-style Electric Guitars. Hello, My les paul has the standard corian plastic? Selecting a nut for tone is almost useless. The guitar stays in tune longer and tunes more accurately because the strings no longer get bound up at the nut.

I seriously doubt there is much difference if any at all. Somewhere I read that Corian was great to use as nut material. The local countertop fabricators have cut-offs that are typically 5/8" by 1" by 24" long. The slots are cut smooth, don't bind, and the material seems to be fairly hard and the slots don't wear at all.

Plastic nuts fail a good number of the specifications for a great nut material. Page 1 of 2 1 2 Next > Dec 10, 2015 #1. Available in the following materials: So the strings pitch responds to the tiniest movement of the tuning machine.

I have a bunch of Corian left from when I did the countertops in my house. If I knew 100% that I had a corian nut I would be much more hesitant to try working on it myself. I use Elixir Nanoweb 11's if that makes a difference. I have a Micarta nut on my ’69 Fender “Pink Paisley” Tele, and I’m totally satisfied with it.

Graph Tech PQL-5000-00 TUSQ XL Fender-style Slotted Nut - 1-11/16" Long x 1/8" Wide. I just would like knowledgeable players and possible professional players opinions. Home / All Products. The Corian nut I got on a Warmoth neck order, is the best nut I've ever had in a guitar.

Tone is also very good. Graphtech/Graphite is suppose to have a lubricated benefit to it, so as to eliminate the string binding up in the nut slots. Since I read about it' I've kept my eyes open for some lying around. I am considering changing it to a bone nut to get a better sound.

Could it be that. Can anyone tell me why they prefer a Bone vs Corian nut. As for Corian, I'm an expert . This can lead to the dreaded "pinging", along with the fact that quite a few factory nuts, even on pretty high-end guitars, aren't slotted all that well.

It isn't a thermoplastic, but is thermoformable. 6-month Promotional Financing Available ‡ Rated 4.5/5 Stars. I asked this is the many section of the forums due to traffic and I got many replies. Graph Tech String Saver Originals for Strat & Tele - 2 1/16" spacing.

This material helped solve my intonation problem. It would be great for someone to post sound clips to evaluate the tone difference. However, plastic is not so appealing because it offers poor sound properties. As soon as I straightened the neck, which had been somewhat bowed, I realised that the 1st string was buzzing against the first fret as the nut had been cut too low.

You assume its in there like any other nut, and you go to give it a dead blow to carefully pop it out.. Try twisting the tip of a sharpened pencil in your nut slots, leaving graphite residue, and tell me if that works or not. I used the old nut as a template. Gibson uses cheap plastic nuts.

What is your perceived difference? Different plastic materials including Corian and Micarta can be used to craft guitar nuts. While I was out earlier I stopped in one of the locally owned home centers (Paige Lumber) went up to the counter and asked if they had any Corian cut off's or samples. Cutting a nut from a blank requires patience and exact work.

They are probably far cheaper to produce than a Corian nut actually... Add to Wishlist $ 1.00 – $ 12.65. In particular the D and G don't glide as nicely through the slots during tuning. Sorry to dig up an old thread but I just got a 2013 Gibson 60's Tribute LP Studio with a Plek-cut Corian nut & am wondering, is it permanently lubricated like Tusq or do I need to apply lubrication in the slots when I install new strings?

Corian Solid Surface Options: Discussion in 'Luthier's Guitar & Bass Technical Discussion' started by leftybill, Dec 10, 2015. I have a 1994 HD28 and it came with a corian nut. Some luthiers claim that these materials are actually better than any bone nut – Martin has used Corian for some time.

Should I have the nut replaced (Corian vs. Graphtech nuts are just injection molded plastic impregnated with teflon. Nut, Corian, 1/4" x 13/32" x 2 1/4" $2.25 Corian is very much like bone (a bit whiter), it expands and contracts like wood, and it has the advantage of non-porosity making it particularly useful for transducer-type pickup systems. Keep-Nut is manufactured in stainless steel and consists of a threaded bush, a set of toothed spring washers (crowns), and a plastic ring.

Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk They are free for the asking.John If you think it alters the tone in which way does it do that? The grooves are designed to lead the string from the fingerboard to the headstock or pegbox in a smooth curve, to prevent damage to the strings or their windings.

Tusq XL Slotted Nut for Fender-style Guitars. Corian is pretty slick for trem use too, but the ultimate trem nut material IMO is "Slip Stone" trade name "Delrin". It is a resin based product, produced by Formica. Corian® Solid Surface Hazelnut quantity.

Corian does work well, and it is easily the cheapest of all nut materials I have used.