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Originally Posted by LouieAtienza
That's about right. The nut slots should be deeper, and just act as a "placeholder" for the strings, since the zero fret sets the string height. I'm sure the less-expensive guitar manufacturers did this because it simplified things; though some builders today do this so that open and closed chords have the same "timbre..."
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that is the way normal zero frets work. Perhaps I'm not clear on my explanation, the zero fret is the same height as the first fret, as if the nut sets the height, seems not right.
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