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Some people who'd used them said they worked well so might be worth a shot considering how cheap they are.
I take a piece of the string, in your case the '53 and use that as the file, if you have enough string left to fit into a junior hacksaw replacing the blade and pinch& wrap around the fixing mounts, all the better.
It's not the perfect solution but with care and the correct angle you can get good results.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/61134/sarge/p1
Turned out it was just a job that I felt required a lot more experience than I could ever get. Did 2 basses that worked well then tried it on a guitar and fucked it so just sold them.
Great for cleaning gas nozzles, crap for cutting nut slots.
"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
You want the nut slot to be straight and angled slightly upwards towards the fretboard end. Wiggling something that's bending all over the place around the slot isn't going to do it any favours.
I have used those things myself, which is why I advice against it on anything other than a cheap expendable guitar.
An alternative is to superglue the string to an ice lolly stick.
However, having never actually tried it myself, I had no grounds to refute your claim. So I set about conducting a little experiment. I took a spare 10 gauge low E string and a spare nut, and went about rubbing the string against the top of the nut (between 2 existing nut slots). After 3 minutes of continuous back and forth, applying pressure to the top of the string, I managed to make a light mark on top of the nut. It was just a mark, with no real depth, and no nut material was deposited on the string or around the test area.
So now I can say with some degree of confidence that using a wound string is a very inefficient way to deepen a nut slot, and would take you a very long time compared to any of the other methods mentioned, including those useless welding nozzle cleaners.
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