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Any one have one or know of a new part that fits?

I have brass now but string spacing is a little narrower than my other 300 mpcs. Any one ever replace the nut with brass?

I don't think you are going to find a brass nut that fits unless you get lucky on e-bay. Brass bar stock is pretty cheap and it is soft enough to be fairly easy to work with hand tools.

Thanks may have to live with the spacing not bad just a little narrower than my other 300s

I put a heavy gauge set on my X935, the bottom E was too fat for the nut. I worked the string back and forth as a file to enlarge the nut slot, it worked great! Brass is soft enough to work like that, Workingman is right on.

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Hi, I just bought a brass nut from NW Custom Guitars for a lp project that looks to be an exact replacement for a few of my Electras It was advertised to fit LP and Explorer type guitars. I found them on Ebay and paid 10.49 plus 2.00 shipping. Already slotted but usually you need to make some height adjustments . I use a set of small jewelers files to get the string heights to my liking. ....Neil

thanks for the tip