Vintage Jag nuts... made of what?
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 7:05 am
What were the original 60s Jags nuts made from? Plastic??
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 8:09 am
bone I'm pretty sure
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 8:10 am
really? thats interesting... thanks!light rail coyote wrote:bone I'm pretty sure
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 12:37 pm
You'll be able to get bone easy enough if you're thinking of making one. Usually you can get a pack of blanks on ebay somewhere.
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 12:42 pm
thanks - found some blanks online. camel bone apparently!BacchusPaul wrote:You'll be able to get bone easy enough if you're thinking of making one. Usually you can get a pack of blanks on ebay somewhere.
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 4:53 pm
Bone or Brass.
Plastic sucks.
Plastic sucks.
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 5:28 pm
Why has'nt anyone said 'DEEZ' yet?
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 7:36 pm
the balls of a jaguar fallen in battle
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 11:09 pm
Nothing wrong with plastic nuts, at all. They're actually more durable than bone in the long-term because they don't become porous and brittle as fast.
Vintage Fender were bone, AVs are plastic-based synthetic "cyclovac" which is pretty close to bone (they label the blanks of it they sell 'bone' which has caused much confusion as to what they actually use on higher-end guitars... it's all plastic).
Having used bone and plastic nuts on Fender/Squier AND Gibson/Epiphone I'd say there isn't much difference. Filing/cutting the bone nut for my tele The Colonel reminded me of being at the orthodontist and then I got a bit queasy. As long as you have a well-cut nut, little short of locking clamps will be much of a departure (even using a brass Gibson nut on my SG didn't feel too different from the plastic and string saver tusq/trem ones I've also used on that guitar).
I put a bone nut on my tele just 'cause, hey, I'm open to hype. I can't feel a difference and CERTAINLY can't hear one.
Vintage Fender were bone, AVs are plastic-based synthetic "cyclovac" which is pretty close to bone (they label the blanks of it they sell 'bone' which has caused much confusion as to what they actually use on higher-end guitars... it's all plastic).
Having used bone and plastic nuts on Fender/Squier AND Gibson/Epiphone I'd say there isn't much difference. Filing/cutting the bone nut for my tele The Colonel reminded me of being at the orthodontist and then I got a bit queasy. As long as you have a well-cut nut, little short of locking clamps will be much of a departure (even using a brass Gibson nut on my SG didn't feel too different from the plastic and string saver tusq/trem ones I've also used on that guitar).
I put a bone nut on my tele just 'cause, hey, I'm open to hype. I can't feel a difference and CERTAINLY can't hear one.