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Originally Posted by hesson11
You're right, Steve. I was a bit off base, and I apologize.
The stock Taw, OM and Tamar all are specified on the Brook site as having a nut width of 44mm, which is 1.732 inches. And 1.732 is not 1.75. Those who absolutely require the extra .018 inch (less than one-half of one millimeter) will probably not find a stock Brook acceptable. Perhaps that includes Luria, or perhaps that's close enough. It is for me, and I'm more accustomed to 52mm nut widths. (For reference, 45mm equals 1.77 inches.)
I apologize that in measuring my Torridge, I could not discern that same 18 one-thousandths of an inch. Thank you very much!
-Bob
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For me, that 44mm nut width, is just not enough.
And in the case of a Brook, where the depth of the neck is quite slender, then its sort of a 2x the issue.
Perhaps if they built their necks much deeper, then this could compensate for that shorter nut width.
(Dream on......)
So yep, that 44mm nut width is why i dont own a closet full of Gibson Acoustics.
And while im at it....why is it that all imported guitars...Asian...Taks, Yairis, English Luthiers, ....they generally all refuse to create a stock instrument, that has a 1 3/4 nut.
All of them want to give you the 1 11/16th or some of them the 44mm, like Yamaha or Brook, and 2 of them....Yairi and Tak, will give you the 45mm, while skipping happily right over the 1 3/4 or 44.50.
WHY ~???????
1 3/4.....good luck., tho i think Tak did a "Nashville" series about 100 years ago that came stock with a 1.75 nut.
It is a mystery to me why asian and euro builders do not understand that the people who spend the big money on handmade guitars, are a lost market to them, because they just refuse to offer an instrument with a 1 3/4 nut as "stock".
Of course, Breedlove and Taylor and most other American Builders are certainly happy about this, as this way, they get that entire market to themselves.....