Boned Bongo!

[xring]

I recently had a bone nut installed on my Bongo 5 due to my pulling my G off the fretboard. It did not have to be moved much, but what a difference. A new stock nut could not be utilized due to the slots being pre-cut. Now I love my Bongo again. I really wish I had a "before" pic.

 

[jubjub721]

im trying to refrian from so many "boned" jokes that could be used here.

 

[Psychicpet]

How's the intonation? Did losing the compensation send the B, E, and A out a bit?

 

[prickly_pete]

The string spacing is a little off. Interesting, though.

 

[AnthonyD]

Yep - the D & G look a little tight... Strings converging from the string tee to the nut...

 

[Golem]

I recently had a bone nut installed on my Bongo 5 due to my pulling my G off the fretboard. It did not have to be moved much, but what a difference. A new stock nut could not be utilized due to the slots being pre-cut. Now I love my Bongo again. I really wish I had a "before" pic.

Straighten me out here {1?!]. You put a new, differently cut nut on your ax to get the 'G' safely futher away from the edge, to prevent your pullling it off the fingerboard while playing? Or, your habit of pulling the 'G' off the edge broke the corner off of the original nut, so then you needed a new nut? Or both?

As to the intonation tweaks built into the original nut, I suppose you could file those into the new nut as well, if you found need to do that.

 

[xring]

No, the stock nut did not break. It took very little effort for the G to slip off the board. Foregoing "technique" discussions - I was not going to adjust to an instrument after playing for 25+ years, and this being the 1st to display this condition. The intonation is spot on. The brand new strings just keep going out of tune, seeming to take forever to stretch in. Every stealth Bongo I've seen has a regular nut anyway. As for the spacing, that's a funny thing. To my eye, the stock G looked waaay over there, with a noticable descrepancy in spacing to the D. If I had my druthers, I would have pulled the G in a tiny fraction further. I find it hard to judge string spacing while looking at the lower end, say from the nut to the 3rd fret. It works it's way out by the 5th fret, and the spacing seems the same from there to the bridge.

 

[bovinehost]

If you're happy, that's the important thing.

It's odd seeing a Bongo without a compensated nut, though.

 

[jongitarz]

The string spacing is a little off.


+1

 

[xring]

Yeah I'm happy
Gonna play the snot out of it now.
The nut looks even stranger with that brown streak running through it!

 

[jongitarz]

Ewwww

 

[bovinehost]

The nut looks even stranger with that brown streak running through it!

Just walk away from it, people.

Just walk away.

 

[Mobay45]

Yeah I'm happy
Gonna play the snot out of it now.
The nut looks even stranger with that brown streak running through it!

That's probably where some of that snot is coming out.

 

[Steve Dude Barr]

If it works for you then it works for you....I'd rather play the poop out of it than snot though.

 

[smallequestrian]

If you're happy, that's the important thing.

It's odd seeing a Bongo without a compensated nut, though.

Not for me

 

[AnthonyD]

Yep... My fretless is sans compensated nut as well...

 

[bovinehost]

You poor, poor bastards.


















Just kidding.

 

[xring]

You guys are right. I sat down and took some careful measurements. This nut is way off. A - string not on center, and spacing. This will be remedied shortly.
Question - Any preference or advantages of a bone nut as opposed to graphite?
Black graphite would certainly look better. Thanks.

 

[bovinehost]

I'd go graphite, or one of those Tusq things because both of them look very hardy.

Or I'd order one from EBMM.....not sure how to reinstall a compensated nut, though, because I guess it would come 'uncut'.

 

[Psychicpet]

Yep, Tusq is gooood. From what I've learned recently, the bone that they are using these days is typically beef and is less consistent than the whale bone stuff so some bone nuts will be good but their consistency isn't that of graphite or Tusq material, which is kinda why those products were made, for consistency.