Alright. Yea its chilly. But it could be so much worse. Glad you moved on with the project. You will like the bone nut better, most likely. I put bone nut and saddle into my acoustic and I could tell a difference, that was nice. I have yet to do this in my electric.
I was reading on a DIY luthier page months ago. He was saying a great alternative to buying nut files is getting a set of cheap guage feelers and cutting notches along the edges of the stacked group with a dimond file or a dremal. They will cut very well and you can dial in your width very easy since they are numbered.
If you look hard enough you can sometimes find deals in odd places. Like a Japanese website that sells anime merch, action figures and model kits.
I’ve ordered 3 sets of slot files, a fret end dressing file, and a set of crowning files from them and I’ve been very pleased with the service and the product.
[redacted] I can’t find a PayPal email to confirm what I actually paid so I’m clipping this part out. In Yen it was 13,850 and 8,400 between two separate orders, there was a third I can’t find anything for, but that was in 2021 and with out a conversion rate. . .
Right now this set is ~$74 USD.
EDIT: Lee Valley also stocks these but I’ve not checked their prices, they were considerably more expensive when I bought mine.
$70 is a bit more than would likely be willing to pay unless I was planning more than a 1-2 use application on these. I was using this kit to see what I could learn and while I normally buy nice quality, I also plan to use the item a lot when I do.
The MusicNomad set is about $90 and a StewMac set for about $80 on Amazon. Both of these look pretty good. The MusicNomad set looks easier to use. StewMac usually has nice tools.
what I got is super cheap and I know I will need to use them carefully. They won’t stand up any abuse.
