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Post by tark on Jul 25, 2008 19:56:33 GMT
......back to the drawing board Shine On Michael Yup fraid so. Isn't it amazing that it is so hard to get a mobile bone nut to do the same thing a fixed bone nut does rather well. Just having that extra string pressure and perhaps a spot of glue seems to make such a difference. I can see where the idea that the extra string angle of a slotted headstock provides better sustain comes from and also the virtue of the Maccaferri nut to headstock transition. However on a Fender electric the string angle at the nut is relatively shallow and they don't seem to suffer from sustain problems. If you think of it in terms of slides then a bone slide (equivalent to a completely unsecured nut/capo) provides little sustain while a hard, dense, heavy slide of metal, glass or ceramic works well. At the moment it appears that the only way forward is to use a large lump of brass and rely on its inertia to help stop movement. The only experiment I can think of (apart from using a big triangular chunk of brass) is to mount a bone nut/capo in a block of wood that extends on either side of the neck so it can be clamped tightly to the neck. If clamping the bone to stop as much movement as possible improves the sustain then that would at least prove that movement (vibration) is the problem.
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