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Jan 9, 2025 - 9:05:24 AM
2 posts since 1/9/2025

Hello, I have installed Classic Nylguts medium on my Clifford Essex banjo my current Nut and Pip are in bad shape and I'd like to try a Bone Nut and Pip. Will the bone and Nylguts work well together? All help much appreciated!

Jan 9, 2025 - 9:32:53 AM

230 posts since 6/22/2016

A bone nut and 5th-string pip will work fine with Nylgut strings—as long as you take extra care to file off any sharp edges and polish the grooves with 600-grit sandpaper.

Jan 9, 2025 - 10:59:27 AM

2 posts since 1/9/2025

Thanks Eulalie, That's good to know and thanks also for the sandpaper polishing tip!

Jan 13, 2025 - 4:37:35 PM

111 posts since 5/18/2019

Another thing about un-wound Nylguts is that the diameter shrinks as tension is added. If your nut and pip are not smooth they will shave off some of the string. A trick I have tried is to put a piece of cellophane or string package plastic under the strings where they lay in the nut, bring the strings up to tension with that plastic in-between, wait 24 hours, take it out and tension again. The difference in diameter between a new, slack Nylgut and a stretched Nylgut is several thousandths. That's enough to cause a pinch and a break.

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