I just hate to see a perfectly good idea with a number of benefits get vilified and dismissed for the wrong reasons. Many people just prefer the "look" of a normal nut, and that's fine and understandable. In previous discussions of this subject it became obvious that the objection to zero frets or nuts incorporating a zero fret was not that they didn't work-it was an objection on aesthetic grounds based largely on the fact that "back in the day" some cheap guitars and banjos had zero frets, so they got a negative reputation which has persisted to this day. I have demonstrated this time and again, and I'm sure many BHO people are tired of listening to the comparison sound files between bone, MOP, Corian and a zero fret nut I did 5 or more years ago.Īll those who play longnecks or are used to playing with a capo are familiar with the reality that the nut is "just another fret" and not some kind of tone enhancer. The sound aspect is hard to parse-very subtle and not easily distinguishable. Meanwhile, regular nuts can be a mess with strings too high, strings pinching, buzzing if the slots are too deep, etc.īasically, the real difference between a zero fret nut and a conventional nut is a mechanical one-a more perfect string height coming off the nut and no string binding or pinching. It does not sound dead, it is not higher unless deliberately made that way, it does not buzz. Sorry, but a zero fret incorporated into the nut can be removed, replaced and dressed just like any other fret. It just seems to me like it would cause open notes to sound dead, like a loose fret, unlike a true zero fret which was seated and dressed with the rest of the fret job. It is also not leveled and dressed with the other frets, so it’s going to be higher than the others (or buzz). The zero glide fret just lays on the surface and depends on string tension to hold it there. A zero fret is seated tight just like any other fret. I don’t think of the zero glide as being equal to a zero fret (which I have no problem with).
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