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Originally Posted by ljguitar
And mmmaak, it involves adjusting both saddle and nut.
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Originally Posted by Elliott E Worby
The nut goes over the fretboard a bit (shelved nut) AND the saddle is recompensated. In fact, the old saddle slot must be filled and then a new one cut. The intonation adjustment to the low E is extreme. I wish a luthier around my neck of the woods did compensated nuts. I would have tried that first.
A capo does not nullify the effect of the Buzz system. Since the intonation is set based on the nut AND the saddle, the new saddle settings effect the entire neck.
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Thanks for setting me straight, Larry and Elliot
However....if the compensation is achieved as a result of adjusting
both ends (the nut and the saddle), wouldn't it be out-of-whack if the nut was "removed" from the equation by using a capo? After all, the original compensated saddle was designed to work with an uncompensated nut. The nut and saddle work together in the Buzz Feiten system, so when one "half" of that equation is missing....
Am I missing something here?