TUSQ XL Nuts

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These nuts are very high quality and sized perfectly for Stew-Mac fingerboards. We use them exclusively

A few minutes of careful sanding is all that's needed to get these nuts to fit. Smooth, easy tuning and the strings no longer bind in the nut. Great tuning stability. A must have for players that play hard and do a lot of hard string bending.

Tusq is plastic. I would not have ever used tusq for my project, but my client requested it based on a hyped up article he read.

Really works great. Had to do a little shaving on the bottom edge to get a perfect fit, but these really are nice.

a little sanding is required to get these to fit, but nothing unsual. they work and sound great

Replaced the plastic nut on my Might Mite neck and immediately noticed a difference.

What can I say, these are awesome! Every time I build a new guitar, this is my string nut of choice. Just a little sanding and polishing of the sides and maybe the bottom a little bit and that's it! Ready to go!

I do mods & repairs for friends, & StewMac is one of the few places I was able to locate a Fender-form black Tusq with the flat bottom (as opposed to the three-point "universal"), & at a very competitive price in bulk ($8-$12 is common).

As some other reviewers have noted, these probably won't last forever, but while I'm not a dive-bomb fanatic, I've personally killed brass, bone, & Micarta. I tell my clients that anyone who needs longevity & doesn't want to have a new nut installed every year should go for a roller or a locker.

It's simply darned handy to have a pre-slotted drop-in replacement, made from top-grade materials -- the things even "clink" like bone. My clients are impressed, & I save time.

I just got done rebuilding an American Standard Strat and I put this nut on it. Not only did it fit perfectly, but I can use the tremelo a lot more without having to retune. I also did a full custom job on my B.C. Rich Warlock and one of the things I did was replace the stock plastic nut with one of the black tusq nuts sized for a Gibson. The string spacing is just right. The only modification I had to do with this nut is to tril it to size from side to side just over a millimeter. But other than that, it fit great. I only had to retune it once after restringing for the strings to set, and scince then, it's been dead on. I LOVE IT. Right now I am doing a full custom job on my Dean Razorback and I am going to definitely use the Black Tusq XL nut on it as well. It's hard to find a better nut.