MJ Slaughter wrote:I just measured my legacy tribute nut with calipers and if yours is the same as mine, that nut should work. Be prepared to sand the bottom a little if necessary but go slow. When you do sand the bottom of a nut, put a straight edge with a little height to it, I use my aluminum level, on the sand paper so you can run the nut against it to keep it level while sanding, keeping even pressure to avoid misshaping the nut. Now my measurements were done with the nut installed. Sorry but I'm not willing to take it off just to measure. Only other thing to make sure of is if the tribute nut is flat on the bottom or curved. If I were you and getting ready to order one I'd pull off the old one and make sure. You can still set it back in there, tune up and be OK while you wait for the new one to be delivered.
I read
here that the bottom of tribute nuts is flat.
When I did the LP nut I used a similar technique - sand a little bit, test fit, sand a little bit.. Kind of an iterative process.
Nice trick with the level, I will try that.
Miles Smiles wrote:I recently replaced the nut of my Tribute Comanche with one of these:
http://www.graphtech.com/product-304-2/I also replaced the string retainer with one from Graph Tech.
I took the black nut, because I have in mind it's better for guitars with vibrato system, as the strings may slip better through the string slots. As the bottom of the nut slot is flat on the Tribute Comanche, it may be flat on the Legacy too, so the nut linked to in the first post may work.
Doesn't look bad, I think:
That link has a curved bottom with notch ? Did you sand it flat or something? Or can you get that setup with a flat-bottomed nut?
Thanks for the vids. Did you notice the guy was just sanding a curved nut on a flat surface?
Philby wrote:BTW, I also tried the white graphtech nut but found the black one to stay in tune better. I do prefer the look of the white one.
I actually kinda like the black ones. My legacy has the rosewood fingerboard and matching head stock so could look pretty cool.
I'm lucky enough to have several good guitar shops close by and some carry these. I will go and see which ones they carry and how they all look up against it.