I need to order a few Stratocaster nuts, the spread is good and I like the look of them on my leftovers guitar (pic attached) - and a piece of bone to carve from scratch, because that’s what’s really proper. But the strat ones will be good to set it up.
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Well, it passes my test, I can touch my tiny finger to thumb around it at the eighth fret. Needs finishing, but I had to put it together to make sure I’d done OK, and it seems good.
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even the temporary nut went well, bloody serendipity. I had a few old, garbage ones of about my measurements for string spread, and of course they weren’t the right height, so I guessed and put two layers of tie wrap under it for starters.
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Because of the tie wrap bits, the nut was above the slot for it, and when I glued it on, the bass side tilted out - and it’s almost perfect, totally playable, LOL. Parts on order, but it already feels terrific. 😀
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The new nut and the colour says 1 - 4 weeks, so everything’s put away, workbench is my coffee table again, house is normal, like it never happened, one day. Kind of weird.
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EDIT TO ADD: two pics. Also, the nut is a little high on the A string, but I’m trying not to take a knife near it just for the temporary one.

I just got out another table and my vice, set it all up in the living room, I was going to unstring the guitar, take the tuners off and sand the colour off of the back of the headstock so if the new colour isn’t perfect at least the whole back of the neck is the same colour. Plus, with the tuners and strings off I thought I could put the headstock in the vice and dress the fret ends - so I got all that set up and then I looked at the tuners and their brand new little Phillips screws and thought, what if the colour is OK and I damaged that factory perfection for nothing?
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so I dressed the frets with one hand and no vice, pulling the strings out of the way and put the vice and the table away again.
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Patience. Don’t hurt it pre-emptively because you’re impatient or bored. 👍
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depressed, because this will make me officially out of excuses
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right now I can’t remember a single tune I think I can play. That’s why it took so long because I never thought my abilities were worth the price of this guitar, I guess I forgot 😠💜
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delayed buyer’s stress, I’ve finally committed to it so it’s like I just paid for it 😬
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EDIT TO ADD: I mean, I have seriously impacted its resalability, a small handed person might pay for the work but there’s no such market, I’ve probably just lost at least half the value. It really was just sitting in the bank until now, but now as I like to say, I’m committed, or I should be. 😜
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