Post by RobertW on Jul 5, 2020 8:10:11 GMT -5
I plan to put folk nylon strings on a parlour guitar. Why? Corvid-19 lockdown of course. The guitar is my Ibanez Artwood AVN3-NT Parlour.
so 1st things first.
string size comparison
Steel .054 .043 .032 .025 .016 .012
Nylon .045 .037 .031 .040 .032 .028
We knew the trebles were thicker, but did not realize the basses were THINNER.
Ideally, starting with a blank nut would be preferred, so all slots could be cut to fit properly but we do have a precut bone nut on hand so we will make do. If this works out, we will advance to cutting a nut from scratch.
The plan is to leave the bass strings slots alone and to widen the treble string slots.
I am waiting on some cheap nut slot dressing files.
Other considerations.
We have no fear of tension, because nylon has so much less than steel. However the bracing is designed for steel strings, not nylon. It may result in muted output. But we are going for FOLK not Classical.
so 1st things first.
string size comparison
Steel .054 .043 .032 .025 .016 .012
Nylon .045 .037 .031 .040 .032 .028
We knew the trebles were thicker, but did not realize the basses were THINNER.
Ideally, starting with a blank nut would be preferred, so all slots could be cut to fit properly but we do have a precut bone nut on hand so we will make do. If this works out, we will advance to cutting a nut from scratch.
The plan is to leave the bass strings slots alone and to widen the treble string slots.
I am waiting on some cheap nut slot dressing files.
Other considerations.
We have no fear of tension, because nylon has so much less than steel. However the bracing is designed for steel strings, not nylon. It may result in muted output. But we are going for FOLK not Classical.
So I can overthink it for weeks!
These are actually welding nozzle cleaning files. Some enterprising eBay seller decided to repurpose them. Now everyone is calling them nut files 
