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Originally Posted by GuitarLuva
No problem! You do have me curious though if there is a before and after difference. I currently don't have any new packs of strings, I have a few on order and I've already loosened and re-tightened this particular set so many times I'm afraid I'll end up busting one. Maybe a week from now I'll do the re-check.
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Sounds good. I went digging through distant memories, and found this 1992 article from Stephen Delft, an accomplished luthier:
http://www.mimf.com/nutcomp/
He used to review guitars for a long-defunct British magazine, International Musician. He caused quite a stir back in the late 70s after publishing a review of a high-end Ibanez guitar where he determined that they had installed the nut in the wrong location, thereby leading to insoluble intonation problems. He spent a lot of time (and column inches) justifying his position, and clearly continued his research beyond that.
Point is, that a guitar is an ill-tempered beast, and it's a wonder anyone can make them play anywhere near remotely 'in tune' at all. Installing a zero fret in the way you did here is enough to disrupt the accepted geometry enough to give me pause, based on a few decades of reading and observation.
I'd love to hear your observations with a fresh set of strings!