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Originally Posted by redir
I learned a long time ago about the half pencil trick. Take a pencil and saw off the metal eraser edge and mount it in a vise lengthwise. Using a block plane, plane off the pencil till you get through half the lead and it makes a nice sharp point.
Then use the flat plane of the pencil resting over the frets to draw a line across the nut. This line is the bottom of the slots and matches the fret height perfectly. I find you will end up going below the line so it's never perfect but in doing this you can very quickly file your slots down to a visible line without worrying about blowing the nut.
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Much easier & faster to do this on a belt sander; no need to remove half of the entire length, just enough to contact the first 2 frets.