zztush
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Action on the ukulele is personal preference, therefore it is often set up bit higher. I always set them bit lower when I buy ukuleles. Here I explain how I lower the action.
The figure left below shows good and bad shapes of grooves. Good shape is semicircle and bad shape is deep groove. If we just cut the grooves, they become deep groove (B in the right figure). Then we need to sand the top of the nut (red line on C). This is messy. Hence we just sand on the bottom(D) instead.
The work is very easy. Remove the nut first (see the left figure below) with your thumb. We don't need hummer, thumb is enough. Then sand the bottom. Sanding is not too difficult but we should be careful because the nut is not easy to pinch. We need to check the level of bottom many times. We can use folded sand paper for grooves (see the right figure below). I don't use glue for nuts afterwards. My nuts are all replaceable like saddle. I have some ukuleles which have two nuts, one is high G and one is low G.
Hi, Dave and Jarmo_S! Use cattle bone nuts. It produce men's smell when sanding. Ukulele nuts and our nuts smell same.
The figure left below shows good and bad shapes of grooves. Good shape is semicircle and bad shape is deep groove. If we just cut the grooves, they become deep groove (B in the right figure). Then we need to sand the top of the nut (red line on C). This is messy. Hence we just sand on the bottom(D) instead.
The work is very easy. Remove the nut first (see the left figure below) with your thumb. We don't need hummer, thumb is enough. Then sand the bottom. Sanding is not too difficult but we should be careful because the nut is not easy to pinch. We need to check the level of bottom many times. We can use folded sand paper for grooves (see the right figure below). I don't use glue for nuts afterwards. My nuts are all replaceable like saddle. I have some ukuleles which have two nuts, one is high G and one is low G.
Hi, Dave and Jarmo_S! Use cattle bone nuts. It produce men's smell when sanding. Ukulele nuts and our nuts smell same.
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