Changing the nut on your electric guitar: everything I know about nuts in just 15 minutes.

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This is a very short video prompted by Sophie Glenn's request to look at some of the challenges of replacing the nut on your guitar. There's SO much to talk about with this subject but my bandwidth is still a problem so I did my best to cram as much as possible into 15 minutes (which is as much as I can reasonably upload at a time currently). It was only THIS short because I drew up stuff on the board first :-)
To sum up:
1) Getting your nut right is THE single biggest improvement you can make to your guitar
2) Because 1), don't skimp on it - I recommend you fit a Tusq nut every time
When changing or working on the nut you're aiming for two things: a perfect 1st fret action (0.3mm) and smooth, friction-free nut slots that don't catch or drag on the strings. The correct 1st fret action will make your guitar easy and light to play AND will stop fretted notes near the nut going sharp and messing up your open chords. Smooth, friction-free slots will be HALF of any tuning instability solved. The other HALF is stretching ALL of the slack out of your new strings. Get that and your slots right and your guitar will play and stay in tune - regardless of what tuners you have or any tremolo systems.

Little added technical PS: apologies for the low level sound. My work area in the shed is right next to my neighbour's open doors so I don't like to raise my voice too loud. Meanwhile, I'll do some experiments to see if I can boost the recording levels... (as well as the output levels...)