Ray
I have a Cort acoustic guitar it is a SFX6R and it is perfectly good. However, I want to get the strings to be level like on top you know not at the bottom of the strings. So I was thinking I must tackle the nut. A couple of ways to approach this I suppose but I was thinking to get a bit adventurous and give myself a bit of exposure considering my hubristic ambition. So, I thought that maybe to change the nut for a better nut material - bone or something. And also I want to get the action higher. But I dont have any dry bone lying around and I dont know where one can get this locally. But, way back I used to hunt. (But let me first just tell you that I dont any more I cant even eat meat anymore so easy. But I dont have a sweat with anyone who does, I just dont. But it's more the way that they farm and transport the cows and stuff than hunting actually but anyway who gives a shit.) So, I have an old dry impala skull with the horns on it lying around somewhere. And somewhere I read about some guy in USA makes nuts and saddles from deer antler. So what do you think? Should I have a crack at the horns of this poor old Impala for the nut? I dont think the skull bone is going to be dense enough hey?
Bob-Dubery
I have a warthog tusk nut on my Smoothtalker (courtesty of Saddle and Nut on this forum who donated the material).
Not all of a horn is bone, but I'm sure you knew that.
If your primary aim is to raise the action for slide playing then you could look at getting a nut extender. But that's a lot less hubristic.
It must be possible to get hippo tooth or walrus tusk locally, though you'd probably have to buy a whole tooth.
Mervyn Davis told me that sometimes when you start cutting the tooth you find that there's not a lot of usable material. I don't know if this is because warthogs don't go to the dentist regularly, and I don't know if this is a potential problem with a horn.
Ray
Well, I've got some warthog tusks as well somewhere.
