Always practice on a cheap guitar or junk neck (which you can find all over ebay) first. However, don’t do your very first nut job on an expensive guitar. It IS a necessary skill if you want to do your own guitar setups. So, it’s best left to a pro unless you’re willing to learn the technique so you can (properly) do it yourself. However, simply filing them deeper isn’t enough–there’s some skill involved in doing it right so that strings don’t buzz or bind in the slots. These issues can be fixed by deepening and/or reshaping the individual string slots a bit. Open D and A chords are the usual suspects, but other chords can stick out as well, depending on the guitar and how bad the nut is. Usually, this is more noticeable with certain chords. Sometimes, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with your guitar, but I’ll talk more about that at the end of this article. ![]() Sometimes, it’s a combination of those factors. This creates a problem similar to when your bridge saddles are too far forward or backward.
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