Nuts about compensated nuts

[gabson]

Right then,

Im a luthier and i want to know how to create these compensated nuts. Who knows how? Its just the increments that you have to use is what im puzzled.

There's no way I'm going to bother getting trained by buzz feiten. is my best bet to obtain one from Earvana or old buzz and just copy it?

Im guessing that its never going to be that simple - every guitar's different and all that.

Any thoughts on this?
Never made one so far but i'd love to try. and out of bone of course


Cheers in advance,
Jack

[Grissle]

I'll surprised if anyone chimes in with info on this, but I hope someone can, this interests me also.

[hillbilly deluxe]

[url="http://www.mimf.com/nutcomp/"]http://www.mimf.com/nutcomp/[/url]

[url="http://www.earvana.com/"]http://www.earvana.com/[/url]

Edited January 13, 2010 by hillbilly deluxe

[gabson]

cheers fellas that article is great. ill have a go in the near future!

[Grand Wazoo]

You'll have a hard time getting it right. I have a few basses with compensated nuts from the same manufacturer and every one is cut slightly differently, I believe they are made so to... "compensate" for the different instrument (otherwise they wouldn't call it compensated, would they?)

here are the differences between an Ernie Ball Music Man 25th Anniversary and an Ernie Ball Music Man Bongo 5

[gabson]

Cheers for sharing - valuble pics!

that Ernie ball method looks tidier than some Ive seen

[Ancient Mariner]

As far as I'd know they're called compensated nuts because they compensate for the conflict between conventional tuning and the requirements of tempered tuning. I've seen improvised version of the Delft method that were reported to work well. I've also tried a variation of the Feitin method on an acoustic guitar (move the nut forward, slightly altered tuning) that seemed to help a little.