thedannywahl
Active member
Okay, I just got this one new 'uke, only had it about 3 weeks. It was ordered online from Maui Music - shipped to Arizona, and then hand carried (carry-on, in a hard case) the next week to me here in China.
Once I got 'em I setup one Herco humidifier in the case. Anyways, I posted one thread last week showing it off. In that thread I mentioned the thing gets choke buzz. someone mentioned it may be the nut.
So today I was playing and then I noticed that the nut is not parallel to the fretboard. On the G string side the nut is about 6mm tall - 2mm above the fretboard. On the A string side the nut is about 5mm tall - 1mm above the fretboard.
I don't have any fancy tools to check it thoroughly (I'll go buy them if necessary) but I'm fairly certain it's the nut and not the fretboard, because the bridge is parallel with the fretboard and the whole uke "feels" tilted if I level the nut by rotating it in my hand.
Since I live in China and I cannot go back to Hawai'i until August 2013, I think I need to fix this myself.
I guess my question is this: can one unlevel nut make the uke more prone to buzz? If so, how can I fix it?
Once I got 'em I setup one Herco humidifier in the case. Anyways, I posted one thread last week showing it off. In that thread I mentioned the thing gets choke buzz. someone mentioned it may be the nut.
So today I was playing and then I noticed that the nut is not parallel to the fretboard. On the G string side the nut is about 6mm tall - 2mm above the fretboard. On the A string side the nut is about 5mm tall - 1mm above the fretboard.
I don't have any fancy tools to check it thoroughly (I'll go buy them if necessary) but I'm fairly certain it's the nut and not the fretboard, because the bridge is parallel with the fretboard and the whole uke "feels" tilted if I level the nut by rotating it in my hand.
Since I live in China and I cannot go back to Hawai'i until August 2013, I think I need to fix this myself.
I guess my question is this: can one unlevel nut make the uke more prone to buzz? If so, how can I fix it?