Help! Broke my bongo! What should I do?

[BongoPeg]

So I got my cobalts in today (love them!) But in the process of changing strings somehow the corner of the nut snapped off. I had a .135 black nylon string on it before, so I dunno if that's what did it or?

What do I do? Do I send it to EBMM or?

It is a sad day for me because I try take such care

Here are pics taken with my phone:




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[JayDawg]

Oh man, is that a Roasted Neck too? That sucks! I could be wrong but I think Customer Service will sell you a nut. Give them a call and ask them.

 

[Golem]

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Just replace the nut. The 135 nylons are pretty fat, and
so if you didn't file out the B-string slot to accomodate
that, then the nut was cracked by the downforce of the
B-string as it rode above the too-narrow slot. This would
be especially true if you often fretted that B-string for a
C or Db note ... the high action near the nut woulda put
a lotta extra strain on that too-narrow slot.


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[BongoPeg]

Yea but I've been playing those strings for months without issues, and yes tuning up to c occasionally. I will give customer service a call, I really hope this won't cost me a ton

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[Golem]

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It'll be quite cheap .... [free, if you're lucky].


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[madbassplaya]

I did the same thing a few years back with an SR5 but it was a big set of flats.

A new nut wasn't much. But I ended up sending it to Music Man to have them go over everything anyway (I bought it used). They were very reasonable and the bass played like new when I got it!

 

[Freddels]

Is there an authorized EBMM dealer in your area? I'm guessing that EBMM won't send one directly to you but will send it to a dealer so that they can do the repair. But, you won't know until you call.

 

[bovinehost]

Glue the little broken bit back on. Use SuperGlue (carefully). The downward force of the string itself is more than likely enough to keep the string in place.

Yes, I have done this and yes that's how I dealt with it and yes my 20th SR5 still plays just fine and no I didn't spend any money at all and yes do be careful with the glue.

 

[jlepre]

$50 fix by any luthier. I did the same to my SR5 and it was a quick simple job.

 

[adouglas]

looks like a chipped tooth! Owwwww

 

[LawDaddy]

Glue the little broken bit back on. Use SuperGlue (carefully). The downward force of the string itself is more than likely enough to keep the string in place.

Yes, I have done this and yes that's how I dealt with it and yes my 20th SR5 still plays just fine and no I didn't spend any money at all and yes do be careful with the glue.

^^^ Yes, I've done this, too. And, yes, it works fine.

 

[ohdamnitsdevin]

I would cry.

 

[fly]

quick fix like Jack says and LD reassures..........done it myself on an acoustic that I tend to bastardize......and yes...be careful where the glue ends up

 

[five7]

Whatever you do, don't take it to a luthier in denver named Tenorio. He hacked up my sub 5 fretless and wanted to charge me $90 and then told me no one had ever asked for a refund. He had his wife refund me.

 

[keko]

Hey, ...that doesn't look like compensated nut to me?
Is that an original nut at the first place?

 

[jlepre]

He's right! I thought a Bongo 6ers came with compensated...

 

[cellkirk74]

right. Looks like the nut had been replaced. BTW, my fretless Bongo has a bone nut too.

 

[five7]

Hey, ...that doesn't look like compensated nut to me?
Is that an original nut at the first place?

Good catch, keko. OP, call CS and get a compensated one.

 

[BongoPeg]

No it is the original. That is the nut I got when I ordered it from EBMM. I'm the original owner, and I was the one who took it out of the packaging. Was I supposed to get a compensated nut?

Edit: Scrap that, it is a compensated nut is it not? Here is
Another picture (I slid the nut back in place here but it is still broken)

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[BongoPeg]

I'm kind of a noob when it comes to this stuff hehe.

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