Making a REAL BONE Nut by hand

[@COL321]

That's really helpful, thanks. It's given me the confidence to have a go at this for an old mandolin I'm renovating. I think I'll keep it well clear of my dog for a while until the bone smell wears off!

[@IPGuitars]

Awesome, glad this helped! Lemme know how it goes and give your dog scratches from me :D

[@kek6342]

Nicely Done!👍🤗🙏

[@larryfleming7295]

I am at work and watching while I can , I picked my phone up while you were filing the string grooves and tried to blow the bone dust off the nut LMFAO!!!

[@IPGuitars]

The amount of times I've done this while watching a video. Or hell, even editing my own videos...

[@SUMIRESBROADCAST]

So glad im not the only one lmao

[@Twominutedevotions]

All of my guitars need nut upgrades and you just gave me a way to do it super cheap

[@IPGuitars]

Haha, great to know! Be sure to grab "uncooked/unboiled" bone, so you get the hard stuff which will last :)

[@midorisumi]

Precut bone nuts are like $3 on Amazon. This seems like a really time consuming and labor intensive way of creating a three dollar item. If you can’t afford to wait for shipping, and happen to have several hours to burn, and the proper type of bone laying around, I suppose you be in luck.

[@IPGuitars]

Yes of course bone nuts are cheap and readily available, but IF you actually wanted to make one this way, then it is possible :) Also, sometimes it can be a little trickier to find a nut blank the correct workable size, so this is just one way to get any custom size you want. This was just as much an experiment of "will it work" as it was a tutorial on how you'd do it should you want to. And totally agree, very time consuming, no doubt about that.

[@hallanvaara6106]

Hyvä video! Kiitos!

[@IPGuitars]

Kiitos että tsekkasit videon!

[@DigBipper188]

Never thought I'd see a metal band where the bassist plays an SB-5A / SB-7A... that's frickin' cool!

[@IPGuitars]

It sounds sooooo good

[@TheGorillafoot]

This is a great idea. My yard has these all over from my dogs gnawing these. They are great frozen in the summer for them, but I won't get into that. I am gonna have to find a good one to make a nut. I have been using tusq, but I like the idea of reusing something like this more.

[@ugobono9783]

Hi, thanks for the video. I am confused about boiling or not cos others videos show boiling an sink in nafta for three weeks. You state that boiling made bone week, right?

[@IPGuitars]

I'm just looking at it from the perspective of what I know as a dog owner. Boiling these bones makes them brittle and can break off small pieces. However after making this video someone here in the comments pointed out that using these bones for this purpose, I should be boiling it to remove fats and such. But the nut I made still works and hasn't shown any indication of (for example) rotting, so I guess it went well enough without boiling :)

[@ugobono9783]

@@IPGuitars Hi, thanks for the prompt replay. You are true, i find a study where boiled bone decrease hardness about 20%! Other guy experimented grease release after some time, so i will not boil but before made the nut i left ( for check eventualy grease release) the bone over house heater or under the sun. Nice work and video! Thanks again, ciao

[@ferdinandsuwandi6179]

Thank you! Clear explained and very motivated. One question, if we only have a "fresh" bone (not an old dry bone like yours), what should we do to dry it to avoid "bone-oil" that will come out during the time?. Thank you in advance.

[@IPGuitars]

I am not 100% sure, but nothing a little bit of research can't fix :) as someone else in the comments mentioned, the main key is de-fatting the bone. I did a very brief Google search on this just now and at first glance it might look to be a good few steps to clean, dry, and sterilise the bone for use🤔

[@hayleylaura8818]

Ahhh this is so fucking cooooool. Wondering why it took as long as it did for you to decide to clamp it while cutting it hahaha great video thanks man

[@IPGuitars]

Thanks so much! :)

[@danjosephsadiwa2356]

Woowww I like this electric guitar..woow it's beautiful.

[@BinCaAlors]

It's a bass guitar

[@SUMIRESBROADCAST]

All by hand, thats awesome, nice video. What do you think about homemade micarta for a guitar nut?

[@IPGuitars]

Had to do a little Google search to see what that was. Well, essentially if it is hard enough it should be just fine. I used to make nuts out of carbon fiber a few years back and plastic is widely used in cheaper instruments, so if it's akin to those in properties it should be just fine really :)

[@f.b.jeffers0n]

This might be a little macabre, but an acoustic guitar - the top at least - made of bone would definitely be epic!

[@IPGuitars]

Brutal. No but seriously, interesting concept :D technically it would just involve laminating the bone to get the top out of it, just to get the size and make it solid enough

[@sabin1418]

If you run a razor blade along the old nut before removing it, it should prevent the finish from chipping.

[@rokinrandy]

Brilliant idea, But I would probably try a band saw or a portaband on cutting that bone in half. That looked way to much like work.

[@IPGuitars]

Oh definitely, if I had a bandsaw or portaband😅 This video was all about doing this process by hand with hand tools. If you have access to a bandsaw/scroll saw or disc/belt sanders this would be a much faster process.

[@larryfleming7295]

Anyways I think I’m gonna try this

[@IPGuitars]

Go for it. Such a simple upgrade that does a helluva lot :)

[@moafu]

whats with Sean Connery and Idris Elba?

[@IPGuitars]

Me flubbing my words combined with my odd humor😅 said something with a Connery "sh" and "elbow grease" sounded like Elba-grease.. Yes, I was rather tired during editing :D

[@ChrisFranklyn]

The entire video your dog is sitting there shaking its head in disgust :)

[@IPGuitars]

Probably😂 chose a good time to do it when she was tired

[@gelosoriano]

Can't do proper work without coffee - 100%!

[@IPGuitars]

Priorities ;)

[@keithjorgensen5059]

You never de-fatted the bone. In a few years the fat will leach into the wood and ruin the neck!

[@IPGuitars]

Excellent point and has been taken into consideration :) we had already discussed putting in a corian nut anyway

[@ch11ew12y]

temu....10 bone nuts for ten bucks no different than stew mac