Furch Red (NGD)

Shadow

The other end of the scale to your Red, but I haven't noticed the nut on my Blue OM-CM being loose.

drofluf

The guitar tech I use advised a small drop of superglue - that was on the guitar I'd built from a kit and was of, shall we say, slightly lower build quality than your Furch

Tannin

^We really, really need a LOLwiz!

ditchboy

I’d be contacting Furch to make doubley sure. 

Tannin

^ Yes, why not do that? I sent them an email, it will be interesting to see what they say.

I'd have been perfectly happy to take my friendly local luthier's advice - hell, if it needed service under warranty, he'd almost certainly be the chap they'd tell me to take it to seeing as he's an authorised repairer for Maton, Fender, and various others. But why not ask anyway?

Tannin

Had a nice reply from Furch service, very prompt. They say that both the nut and saddle are free-floating by design. 

"So each time you restring make sure not to lose the part, and before there is too much tension guide it in place to be centered. So don't worry to restring the guitar now. :-)"

I guess I can get used to that. Maybe I won't worry about gluing it in now. 

I wonder what their logic is in doing that?

guitarjack66

Tannin said:

Had a nice reply from Furch service, very prompt. They say that both the nut and saddle are free-floating by design. 

"So each time you restring make sure not to lose the part, and before there is too much tension guide it in place to be centered. So don't worry to restring the guitar now. :-)"

I guess I can get used to that. Maybe I won't worry about gluing it in now. 

I wonder what their logic is in doing that?

I'd glue it in myself. Or get your tech to do it of course.

drofluf

Tannin said:

Had a nice reply from Furch service, very prompt. They say that both the nut and saddle are free-floating by design. 

"So each time you restring make sure not to lose the part, and before there is too much tension guide it in place to be centered. So don't worry to restring the guitar now. :-)"

I guess I can get used to that. Maybe I won't worry about gluing it in now. 

I wonder what their logic is in doing that?

I've been impressed with their level of customer service - I asked what the bridge pin size was because I wanted to replace the plastic bridge pins on my Little Jane with ebony one and they sent me a set FOC

Dave_Mc

Tannin said:

Had a nice reply from Furch service, very prompt. They say that both the nut and saddle are free-floating by design. 

"So each time you restring make sure not to lose the part, and before there is too much tension guide it in place to be centered. So don't worry to restring the guitar now. :-)"

I guess I can get used to that. Maybe I won't worry about gluing it in now. 

I wonder what their logic is in doing that?

No idea, it is quite strange, but at least it's deliberate and not a fault.

ditchboy

Good to know! I’d probably just leave it as it is now if that’s the design, it seems slightly unusual but they know a thing or two about guitars so I’d trust their judgement. 

Soupman

Only advantage I can see is if the nut needs altered in a set-up?
Not seen that before, but if they say it's deliberate, well that'd do me!