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Unbleached Bone Nuts


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Bone is traditionally favored for quality instruments. Our unbleached bone is harder than bleached bone, and has a mottled cream vintage look. Its hardness and density contributes to good tone, it polishes well, and it allows more precise slot filing.

Blank nuts have oversize length and height, for custom shaping in your shop. They're ready for trimming, filing, sanding and slotting.

Preshaped nuts will save you a LOT of work — a head start for the novice builder, and a bonus for the busy repair shop where time is money! The dimensions have been carefully researched, and minor trimming, slotting, and sanding are all that's needed to fit most popular guitars.


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Unbleached Bone Nuts
 

For Fender® guitars and basses
Profiles Item# Description
Length x height x thickness		 In stock Price Quantity
Unbleached Bone Nuts  6000-V  Blank
1-7/8" x 9/32" x 1/8"
(47.63mm x 7.14mm x 3.18mm) 		Yes
 $4.22
12 or more $3.41  
24 or more $2.90  
Unbleached Bone Nuts  6001-V  Shaped
1-45/64" x 3/16" x 1/8"
(43.26mm x 4.75mm x 3.18mm)
7-1/4" (184.15mm) top and bottom radius 		Yes
 $9.48
12 or more $8.06  
24 or more $6.85  
Unbleached Bone Nuts  6002-V  Shaped
1-45/64" x 3/16" x 1/8"
(43.26mm x 4.75mm x 3.18mm)
10" (254mm) top and bottom radius 		Yes
 $9.48
12 or more $8.06  
24 or more $6.85  

For Gibson® guitars, basses, banjos, and mandolins
Profiles Item# Description
Length x height x thickness		 In stock Price Quantity
Unbleached Bone Nuts  6010-V  Blank
2-3/16" x 7/16" x 3/16"
(55.56mm x 11.11mm x 4.76mm) 		Yes
 $5.05
12 or more $4.04  
24 or more $3.43  
Unbleached Bone Nuts  6011-V  Shaped
1-5/8" x 21/64" x 3/16"
(41.28mm x 8.33mm x 4.76mm)
12" (304.8mm) top radius 		Yes
 $10.45
12 or more $8.88  
24 or more $7.55  
Unbleached Bone Nuts  6012-V  Shaped
1-45/64" x 21/64" x 3/16"
(43.26mm x 8.33mm x 4.76mm)
12" (304.8mm) top radius 		Yes
 $10.45
12 or more $8.88  
24 or more $7.55  

For Martin® and classical guitars
Profiles Item# Description
Length x height x thickness		 In stock Price Quantity
Unbleached Bone Nuts  6020-V  Blank
2-3/16" x 7/16" x 1/4"
(55.56mm x 11.11mm x 6.35mm) 		Yes
 $5.85
12 or more $4.68  
24 or more $3.97  
Unbleached Bone Nuts  6022-V  Shaped
1-13/16" x 3/8" x 1/4"
(46.04mm x 9.53mm x 6.35mm)
18" (457.2mm) top radius; angled bottom 		Yes
 $10.55
12 or more $8.97  
24 or more $7.62  
Unbleached Bone Nuts  6023-V  Shaped
1-13/16" x 21/64" x 1/4"
(46.04mm x 8.33mm x 6.35mm)
18" (457.2mm) top radius; flat bottom 		Yes
 $10.55
12 or more $8.97  
24 or more $7.62  

For Dobro® and Rickenbacker instruments
Profiles Item# Description
Length x height x thickness		 In stock Price Quantity
Unbleached Bone Nuts  1526-V  Blank
2-1/8" x 3/4" x 3/16"
(53.98mm x 19.05mm x 4.76mm)
 		Yes
 $10.54
12 or more $9.16  
24 or more $7.90  

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Unbleached Bone Nuts
Unbleached Bone Nuts
 
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5 2-14-2012
Great Bone!

Easy to work with, give good results!

Hugo  Canada Read my reviews (11)
5 1-24-2012
i love those bone nut

first of all this bone material sound great and always my first choice at the shop for most cases.
those nuts looks great to.
they have got this vintage appear which is very nice, as well with patience you can make them really shine :-)

Yair guitars  ISRAEL , HAIFA , Read my reviews (5)
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5 1-12-2012
Bone Nut Blanks

I've done a grand total of two nuts now. Both were with StewMac unbleached blanks, one a Fender, and one a Martin.

I don't have any complaints about the blanks, but I can't really compare them to any other material because I haven't used any other materials. I can say this: bone dust stinks. It stinks so bad I've developed a way to use my Dremel tool outdoors to shave the blank down close to its final size. Only then do I use the files on it. This saves a lot of stink!

Both guitars I put new nuts on sound much better now than with the old cheap plastic nuts. Good sustain, good tone. I will soon replace the first nut I did on my Strat because I placed the two E strings too close to the edge of the fingerboard.

I would recommend these blanks to anyone who wants to carve their own nuts. It's quite tedious, sometimes smelly, but the sense of accomplishment when it's done and done right is worth the effort.

tfsails  Richmond, VA USA Read my reviews (2)
5 1-04-2012
Great

Worked out great. Perfect color and shaped just enough to require some of your own shaping/filing to personalize it.

Windau  Atlanta Read my reviews (3)
5 12-28-2011
very good

It is what it sais. A piece of bone...

MoorMusic  Switzerland Read my reviews (48)
5 11-28-2011
Great vintage look

I'm trying to get a very trashed 1938 home-built archtop guitar restored to playable condition. The original Nut was a very crude chunk of ebony.
This replacement Looks great.

Now I've got to get the rest of it done.

Jerry U.  Sacramento, CA Read my reviews (3)
5 11-26-2011
Harmony H22 Bass Gets Bone for a rich Golden Tone

My Grandpa's 1964 H22, which is mine now, had a serious failing nut. So i was going to replace it with a Plastic nut like the one that was on it but decided to try a bone nut first. Glad I did... with the Golden Foil Pick-up and that bone nut there isn't enough "O's in Smooooth to describe the sound. If you want that tone you have to go Bone!!!

Adrian  Joplin, MO Read my reviews (2)
5 11-21-2011
Bone means tone!

Vintage bone nuts are THE answer to faded tone or lack of brilliance in your instrument. Once you get rid of the factory plastic, or even the soft Macarta nuts, bone means tone! What a difference a nut makes!

Paulemersun  Wisconsin Read my reviews (2)
5 10-12-2011
vintage bone

Its good stuff.The white looking bison bone i noticed was a bit brighter,but the vintage bone yields more volume overall,attributed to its denseness and abundance of fat in it,i guess its fat because i ground some down and had dropplets of moister on it.

grey  Tennessee
5 10-02-2011
Looks right. Works right.

Just right for a straight bone replacement. New bone os just too white.

f5mando  USA Read my reviews (6)
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