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It's a shame no-one sells stewmac stuff in the uk, it's horrible having to pay so much extra for it
The PO just charged me £11.43 for a Stewmac delivery. Their post could be cheaper for small stuff, I got a big old box for a few small tools. Unless it doesn't make a difference to them cost-wise.
I got the impression that their 7 quid fee was standard
I got the impression the 7 quid is standard (so the higher the value of the total order, the less significant it is and vice versa).
How many mechanics do you know who work with Homebase specials?
To be honest, if the stewmac price was just 7 quid extra I wouldn't even have thought twice, just annoys me that the fee gets charged on top of the duty.
Do you guys mostly use the same size as the strings?
The double-sided flat files from Hiroshima and Stewmac cut precise slots every time at their exact thickness, you really can't fault them.
The double-sided flat files from Hiroshima and Stewmac cut precise slots every time at their exact thickness, you really can't fault them.
The thing with fees & costs is from Stewmac you pay £22 post then VAT and maybe duty, plus handling fee on top. Your 50 quid set of files becomes 90 quid or similar with a 2-week wait. If you need quick post it's another £18 onto the total. So it makes sense to look for alternatives.
At least with nut files good ones are well worth it in the long run, either against paying to have nuts made for you or by improving all your guitars.
Talking quality, the teeth on the pic of the Crimson one look pretty rough... like the apprentice was let loose with a cold chisel..
Sizes - I go a little bit oversize so it can take 11s without fuss, probably 12s, at least until you get to the heavy-bottom sort of sets.
I definitely did look for alternatives and even decided to put a couple of guitars in for a setup even though the nut-filing was the only part I couldn't do myself. It was only when I got them back and the nuts hadn't even been touched that I decided to bite the bullet and pay/wait for the Stewmac files so I never had to be messed around with a setup again.
The postage was around 11 quid I think, will have to wait to see what the duty is.
Do items sometimes get through without being charged duty or is it every single item that gets through gets taxed?
Hello, new member here (I'll post an intro in the relevant section shortly). Just to mention that I bought the full set of nut files from Crimson Guitars, which seems like a great alternative because you get an extensive selection of files and they are cheaper than any other comparable option. However, I think that they are simply feeler gauges with rough teeth cut into them by hand, and I didn't find them very easy to work with (from my experience there, they don't use them in-house!).
I like a lot of the tools and supplies that they sell, so please don't take a negative impression of Crimson Guitars from this post....it's really just this product that I think is sub-par.
The finest one (.010) is good for starting finer notches but it's easy to bend if you're heavy handed like me.