I have a tele with a 1 3/4 nut. There are 2 problems with it which seem like deal breakers. One is that the neck pocket in the body dictated the width of the neck at that end, and that means that the strings are rather close to the edge of the fingerboard. The other is that the strings do not go over the pole pieces in the PUs optimally, and it is enough to effect the string to string balance. For the same reason that nylon string guitars ideally have wider necks than Steel String guitars, acoustic guitars ideally have wider necks than electrics. I am a 1 3/4 neck guy, but I am thinking of going back to 1 11/16 for my tele.
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