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I loved the tele otherwise- under 7lbs in weight, great neck profile and sounded perfect. Didn’t want to take the chance of a) shop messing up a nut reinstall or b) the guitar getting swapped by fender to a lesser example.
I chose not to have it done under warranty and paid a trusted luthier a small amount for a custom cut bone nut. Great decision, it’s like a custom built instrument now. If the guitar is otherwise good, the nut is an easy and inexpensive fix.
I didnt want anyone to think I’m bashing Fender as a whole, and I’m certainly blessed to have had help here too!
If you see this Matt, I will be home around midnight but I recieved your kind message and will respond to you asap when Im with the serial number etc!
They appear to be hand-cut freehand. As I said earlier this really surprises me given that it must be more costly, but if they were CNC'd or even cut with a simple multi-blade saw - or even hand-cut using a jig - then they would all be the same and all correct.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Not sure it’s that easy to tell from photos.
The issue with my particular tele seemed to be the heavy rolled fingerboard edges, effectively narrowing the frets. The nut wasn’t right for that particular neck. Low e slip off was exaggerated by the vintage radius.
In any case, you’d expect a decent nut on a US fender. But I wouldn’t write off an otherwise good guitar for it, so easily fixed.
And if you look at the guitar in the original thread, you can see that the slot spacing is *differently* wrong.
If they were CNC'd they would all be the correct spacing, unless someone purposely set up the program to do it wrong, with random variations... and surely you don't believe that.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein