Thread: Bridge repair
View Single Post
  #6  
Old 02-26-2014, 01:53 PM
Ken Smith's Avatar
Ken Smith Ken Smith is offline
Bassist, Luthier & Admin
 
Join Date: 01-18-2007
Location: Perkasie, PA
Posts: 4,852
Ken Smith is on a distinguished road
Exclamation

Quote:
Originally Posted by Neil Garber View Post
I'm looking for files to use for nuts and bridges. I've come across nut files at StewMac that look like the way to go. What does everyone use? I'm being taught by a cello luthier and she doesn't really have the correct size files yet.
I did my first bass nut correction with needle files and it seemed unnecessarily tedious because you have to be so careful not to go past the diameter on the file for the string you're working on.

Here are the files I'm speaking of. They have 15 different sizes.
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tools/Fi...ing_Files.html
And, you can barely cut a d string with those guitar files. You need bigger for the a and e. The needles usually go up to .125-.130.
Reply With Quote