Extension nut use; raise the saddle(s)?

Bob McElroy · From: New Jersey, USA

My posts should come with a warning that I am now fascinated with this playing style; sorry if these are dumb questions.

I am currently trying out installing extension nuts with varying results.

Newest test guitar is a forsaken and long abandoned Washburn Dread.

It has a not-so-great neck set, and while I am still acclimating, it feels different than my actual lap guitar. I am tempted to raise the saddle.

Is this a common practice when using extension nuts?

James Mayer · Posted 18 Jun 2024 7:18 am

I'm no expert but I've been using nut extenders on resonators, lately. If the strings are not parallel to the fretboard and are sloped down from the nut to the saddle, I'd want to replace the saddle with a taller one. It would just bug me. Also, if you are using the original saddle, there's surely a radius to it and you'd probably want a non-radiused saddle anyway. Kill two birds with one stone.
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Bob McElroy · From: New Jersey, USA

Thanks for sanity check James.

As slight as it is, the downward slope feels really weird.

I have played slide on armpit electric guitars for decades, and even though the left-hand technique is new to me, the feel is surprisingly distracting.

Samuel Phillippe · From: Douglas Michigan, USA

Bob, I have been using a nut riser on a Regal, round neck, Resonator for years without any problems. I have also used them on a cheap Les Paul on occasion, again zero problems. The risers are a cheap way to have a lap type steel.

Sam

Bob McElroy · From: New Jersey, USA

Just re-evaluated; the neck 'set' is atrocious and the saddle has been sanded way too far.

Probably why the guitar was abandoned by previous owner (it has sat in its case for 5 years at my buddy's house. He thought it was mine and vice versa).

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