Nut Slot Gauge - Guitar Repair Tool

How to check your guitar's nut Guitar Tech Tips Ep 2 nut slot height To allow the strings to clear the top of the first fret, the bottoms of the slots should be 030 higher than the fret height Use your feeler gauges to find nut slot height Stack enough together to reach the height of the frets, then another couple of thousandths, put them up against the nut, and file to the gauges

nut slot depth My method is to fret a string across both the first and second frets, use feeler gauges to measure the height of the frets, add a couple of