Chipped nut on my Status

[Oscar South]

A little of the nut of my Status has been chipped off (the bit between the E string and the edge of the neck), it looks like its not actually part of the neck itself but a bit thats been molded on seperately and I have all the parts, but how do you think it would be best to repair this? Remove the E string for 24 hours and set it with superglue or will this be too fragile? Should I send it in somewhere? Can anywhere repair damage like this?

Cheers,
Oscar.

[steve-soar]

What kind of Status is it.
Super Glue won't work.
Show us a pic if you can.
Steve.

[Oscar South]

Its a Status Energy 4, heres a pic. How come superglue won't work? It plays alright without that piece there so I doubt theres a lot of pressure on it.

Edited September 4, 2009 by Oscar South

[Johngh]

To be honest I'd give Rob a call at Status, he's very good at helping with this sort of thing.

[Oscar South]

Is that just the number on Status' contact page? Gave it a call earlier but everyone must have gone home. I don't want to have to wait the whole weekend before I can fix it.. argh :wacko:

I guess I'll just have to be patient.

[henry norton]

Superglue is too brittle to fix something like a nut. Epoxy resin (Araldite) is a better bet and is effectively what the woven graphite of your Status neck is glued together with. Worth a trip to B&Q....

[OutToPlayJazz]

Yes, definitely a call to Status in order there.

[Johngh]

[quote name='Oscar South' post='590134' date='Sep 4 2009, 08:32 PM']Is that just the number on Status' contact page? Gave it a call earlier but everyone must have gone home. I don't want to have to wait the whole weekend before I can fix it.. argh :wacko:

I guess I'll just have to be patient.[/quote]


Best be patient that cock it up !

[GreeneKing]

If you chipped your nuts on your Status perhaps you're holding it all wrong?

[witterth]

[quote name='Johngh' post='590129' date='Sep 4 2009, 08:28 PM']To be honest I'd give Rob a call at Status, he's very good at helping with this sort of thing. [/quote]
+another

[steve-soar]

[quote name='Oscar South' post='590134' date='Sep 4 2009, 08:32 PM']Is that just the number on Status' contact page? Gave it a call earlier but everyone must have gone home. I don't want to have to wait the whole weekend before I can fix it.. argh :wacko:

I guess I'll just have to be patient.[/quote]Take it to Keith and the boys at KGB Music in Birkenhead, Barry will sort this out for you, he's just repaired a very poorly Steinberger guitar neck.

Tell them you need it done ASAP, otherwise you'll go into the queue of Doom.

Edited September 5, 2009 by steve-soar

[mrcrow]

your zero fret has a bit of a groove in it so it sets the height and position of the string
the nut must be a bit superfluous and i dont think gluing it would be bad

superglue...??

i cant comment but epoxy will do it in about 24 hours

[Mr.T]

My money says...

Rob @ Status will suggest epoxy.

(The nut doesn't do much anyway).