Help! busted nut

[shannon]

Hello, I recently re-acquired this wonderful instrument in poor condition. Is this condition fixable?

 

[maddog]

yar. any good luthier should be able to fix it at a reasonable price.

 

[phatduckk]

yup. should not be a problem for any decent tech.

just take it into whichever local shop/repair guy has the best reputation.

 

[Psycho Ward]

My StingRay is in the shop right now getting a new nut, about 75.00 bucks I think. As repairs go a new nut isn't major surgery, get her fixed and she'll be good as new.

 

[Kirby]

It should be better than it was. Looks like someone really filed down the grooves in that nut. Looks like the strings were about even with the fretboard. I imagine it buzzed something awful and with that much material gone, no wonder it broke the way it did.

 

[Moose308]

Which brings up an interesting question. On a fretless, how much space between the bottom of the string and the fretboard (at the nut) should there be?

 

[Rano Bass]

Which brings up an interesting question. On a fretless, how much space between the bottom of the string and the fretboard (at the nut) should there be?

It should be closer than on a fretted bass, or the first position notes would be sharp.

 

[bassmonkeee]

It should be better than it was. Looks like someone really filed down the grooves in that nut. Looks like the strings were about even with the fretboard. I imagine it buzzed something awful and with that much material gone, no wonder it broke the way it did.

Actually, that's the exact way my white fretless Bongo looks. And, it was set up by Juan Guitarrez, Gardner of Death before it shipped to me brand new. A fretless can, and should, have the string at the fretboard at the nut--it doesn't have to clear any frets.


The nut is still broken, though.