{"id":10366,"date":"2017-01-10T11:12:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=10366"},"modified":"2017-01-10T11:12:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:12:35","slug":"how-to-build-a-bass-guitar-rough-slotting-the-nut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/repair\/how-to-build-a-bass-guitar-rough-slotting-the-nut.html","title":{"rendered":"How to build a bass guitar – Rough slotting the nut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below: The items used in this build step. A vice, five gauged nut slotting files, and the nut itself.<\/p>\n

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Below: The nut secured in the vice.<\/p>\n

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Below: A .130″ file was used for the 5-string B, seen at left of nut. Note that this is not filed to final depth<\/b>; this will not be done until strings are physically in the slot to precisely measure slot depth later.<\/p>\n

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Below: A .110″ is about to be used for the 4-string E to file the nut slot.<\/p>\n

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Below: The 4-string E string slot has been filed.<\/p>\n

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Below: The 3-string A slot has been filed, using file size .080″.<\/p>\n

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Below: The 2-string D slot has been filed, using file size .065″.<\/p>\n

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Below: The 1-string G slot has been filed, using file size .047″.<\/p>\n

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Below: Some extra height has been filed off the nut as it was no longer necessary to be there.<\/p>\n

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Below: The nut as it looks now when seated in the neck.<\/p>\n

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Where are the rest of the build steps?
You can view them all here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Below: The items used in this build step. A vice, five gauged nut slotting files, and the nut itself. Below: The nut secured in the vice. Below: A .130″ file was used for the 5-string B, seen at left of nut. Note that this is not filed to final depth; this will not be done … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}