TUSQ by Graph Tech Nut 42mm Flat B0ttom Strat Nut PQ-5042-00

I've never HAD to replace a nut on a guitar until I got a cheap kit Tele with an atrocious nut. All I did was measure the nuts I have on my other Fender style guitars and ordered one closest to it. Popped right in no problem. I play 9s and this needed no cutting or shaping. Will definitely return to Graphtech if I ever need another nut.

I have used various Graphtech products over the years, the first was finding Graphtech string-saver saddles which solved a problem I had been having on my Fender Strats with string breakage over the stock saddle. I had been trying to smooth the saddles by filing and sanding which only worked for a short time. I even went the numbskull route and just put a piece of matchbook cover cardboard or similar material under the strings which was lunacy abetted by necessity. This problem was gone forever after I began using Graphtech saddles.

I have a Strat with the Ghost System installed which is a very cool way to get acoustic sounds on an electric guitar and still keep the graphite saddles for string protection.

Now I have been ordering and using Tusq nuts on the guitars I work on for sale or repair of my own instruments. With careful measurement I have found Tusq nuts are almost perfect fit . I only needed to make sure the nut slot was clean and flat, and the Tusq nuts only need some additional shaping and careful filing of the string slots to depth and making sure the "back" of the string slots were rounded towards the tuners. These Tusq nuts can be finished in a couple hours including string-up and tuning. It feels like its too simple ! After years of long hours spent measuring and cutting a bone blank., I almost feel like I'm cheating. But having a pro like Dan Erliwine of Stew-Mac tell us that Tusq is as good as bone got my attention and it does make some…