Affinity bsb nut and tuners

[milracing]

Ok, I have my credit card in my sweaty little hands, loaded with my puny little paycheck. I'm going to order up some vintage style tuners, the adapter bushings and a new nut from stewmac. I'm ready to pull the trigger but am going to use a measure of self control to check with the smarter people here:
What do you guys think is better - bone, tusq or graphite and do I need curved or flat? I enjoy the thinness of this neck and would like to keep it as is so I guess I'm probably going to have to get a blank nut and build it myself....
Thanks!

[iansmitchell]

Tusq is well marketed plastic. Graphite can lose tuning fairly easily and wear down over time. I'd go with bone, horn, MOP(real, not toilet seat), or stainless steel.

[PraiseCaster]

I know for a fact that the nut will need to have a curve radius equal to the neck radius which I believe is 9.5 on the Affinity BSB Special. I know because I ownd one.

As far as material, I like bone. The graphite aint too shabby, but I still prefer bone.

[KokoTele]

I'm sure you'll be plenty happy with the Tusq nut, but the radius of the Tusq nuts is 7.25", so it's not really a drop fit.

If I were you, I'd go with the pre-slotted bone nut from Mojo:

http://www.mojomusicalsupply.com/ite...971&id=2113255


Problem is that they the don't appear to have adapter bushing for your tuners.

[commaKaze]

I figured better to keep this one going as opposed to flooding w/ more topics;

I've decided on a bone nut replacement for a BSB affinity tele.

WD has them, and praisecaster, you say for sure you know radiused bottom a must (thanks on that!), so:

would this be the thang? http://www.wdmusic.com/bone_nut_for_fender.html

My buddy's 'bout to put in a WD order i can piggyback on that's why i ask WD specific.

[RodeoTex]

I put vintage Kluson style on mine and a bone nut. The material was a dog bone from Petsmart. Not that hard to do.
Both of these are great upgrades for that guitar.

[egelmett]

Originally Posted by RodeoTex

I put vintage Kluson style on mine and a bone nut. The material was a dog bone from Petsmart. Not that hard to do.
Both of these are great upgrades for that guitar.

You didn't happen to find that dog bone in the dumpster, did you?

My first thought was immediately...dead dog. Sorry, I had to comment!

When I lived in Seattle, there was this pet shop next to a Chinese restaurant and I always though, hmmmmm........

Ed

[milracing]

Damn, I went with a regular bone nut. Cow I guess but dog bone would have been good for some style points! Ooooh actually, what if I had the piece of bone I had removed from my spine and used that? That'd be pretty hard to beat....