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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on December 4, 2016 at 6:10am

You mark the crown of the zero fret right where the front edge of the nut would normally be. Your scale length would be zero fret to bridge.

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Permalink Reply by Kenny Robinson on December 4, 2016 at 6:23am

Crown of zero fret to bridge or front edge of zero fret?

thanks

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Permalink Reply by John Sawyer on December 4, 2016 at 6:45am

The center of the zero fret should be right on the line.

When you have a regular nut, the string exits the nut on the edge. It is that edge where you want the center of your zero fret.

Truthfully, cutting by hand you will always have some error, and a tiny error at the nut (small fraction of a mm) won't matter that much.

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Permalink Reply by Moritz Voegeli on December 4, 2016 at 6:49am

To give you an example: the slot you see on the photo shows the initial position of the crown of the zero fret, so the rear side could be a better approximation:

The position of the zero fret was optimized experimentally for a strange combination of tuning and string gauges: its position for the low string would be the normal case.

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Permalink Reply by Kenny Robinson on December 4, 2016 at 9:50am

Thank you.

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