best nut material? tusq or brass?

[kirky]

?

[Mr. Foxen]

Long bone or phosphor bronze.

[RAGER]

i prefer spotted owl bone

[VOLVO)))]

Mammoth tusk

[Instant Dan]

Bone is great. On my LP and it rarely goes out of tune.

I have brass on my SG and it's alright.

[justinhedrick]

i have plastic nuts on all my guitars (they might be nylon?). they work well for me.

[SpaceTrucker]

Nickel

[bass sic]

I used graphite for awhile, but truthfully I never can tell the difference.

[VOLVO)))]

Srs, brass, nickel, graphite all my favorites.

[clockwork green]

I have several mammoth tusk nuts...can't really tell the difference from bone but they have a cool story sine they 30,000 years old.

[James1214]

now if only there was a way to make a nut from baby seal.

[liquidsmoke]

I've had 2 graphite nuts wear down on me and I never played that much when this happened. Now I just use whatever is stock on whatever guitar I'm playing but you have to sometimes get used to the strings binding up a bit while tuning. That could also be cheap tuners not working properly though. I turn the peg, bend the string, repeat.

[dogfood]

I wonder about the corian nuts.  Anybody have a gibby with the corian nut?  durability?

[VOLVO)))]

I put corian nuts on a bunch of shit. Simply because I can rob any color corian from Lowe's sample section.

It's pretty awesome, and polishes beautifully.

[James1214]

I actually work with Corian almost everyday (I do countertop repair and Corian is a specialty) so if anyone wants a piece to try out and fuck with I can send some your way, work out a small trade or something. 

regarding polishing, at work i do heavy grinding/shaping with 40 grit paper then run a grit progression of 60-80-120-240-280-320 then I switch to micron paper which are 60-30-15 if you don't have access to micron papers (and I suspect most don't) you can go to 400-500-1000 to put shine on it, on darker colors I do my last 3 courses wet.

[mortlock]

human jaw bone..

[Mr. Foxen]

human jaw bone..

Be rubbish, porous, not dense, need the weight bearing bones. Human jaw is weak.

[Jake]

Bruce Campbell's jawbone.

[VOLVO)))]

I just like nuts.

[matador_sound]

personally, I use a GraphTech BlackTUSQ XL nut on my Warmoth Jaguar bass. I use a drop-D tuner often, and it has really great tuning stability. I'm eventually going to get another one installed cause the one the neck came with was a little too low for my taste, but the material has been great. never goes out of tune, and sounds like a Steinway when I hit open strings.

[mortlock]

human jaw bone..

Be rubbish, porous, not dense, need the weight bearing bones. Human jaw is weak.

i guess it depends on what youre going for..