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Old 06-02-2017, 03:57 PM
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Great explanation Alan, as usual!
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Old 06-02-2017, 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Alan Carruth View Post
In theory you could displace the first fret back a bit toward the nut to get the fretted note to be correct. You'd need to do this for every string, and, since different strings stretch differently, the amount of displacement would differ, so you'd end up with a crooked fret. And then the second fret would still be out, so you'd need to move that, and so on.
Something like this, one of the crazy things I have had to retrofit to a guitar.

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Old 07-01-2017, 04:38 PM
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Most of you were saying that the nut height needs to be the same as a fret, which of course leads to the discussion of a zero fret.

I replaced a nut on my Jack Casady bass with a Zeroglide nut.

https://goldtonemusicgroup.com/zeroglide/

With its offset tang fretwire, it is a very clever way to easily retrofit a zero fret to an instrument. For $20 or so, it might be a worthwhile experiment to see if it improves/fixes things.
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Old 07-02-2017, 09:34 PM
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Strings continue to ark upward after passing over the top of a zero fret or nut slot. The amount depends on the angle of the string from the tuner, the stiffness of the particular string, and how much it has been bent down from fretting.
Filing nut slots and checking the clearance over the first while fretting the third, accounts for all of these variables for each string easily compared to a zero fret.
and .010" is way too high.

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