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No need to fear when it comes to lowering the depth of your string slots at the nut This

The vice makes a comparison of the instrument by gauging the bottom of the nut slot using a sliding plate arrangement  But you see lots of nut making instructions saying that the slots should only be about half a string diameter deep Indeed Dan Erlewine has said

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