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Fret placement in relation to a bolt nut

Started this discussion. Last reply by BUGGY (C) Sep 7, 2013. 15 Replies

Hi folks. So I've built two 3-string box guitars so far and I've used a bolt as the nut both times. But each time I used nails as the frets and just glued them down after putting on the strings. This…Continue

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