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SteveSmith
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A simple but very useful little tool. Dave Collins of Ann Arbor Guitars made this one, I got it when I went to their setup class about 5 years ago. It's made of 0.040" brass stock, the handle portion is folded over and soldered. The graduations on the ruler are 1/8" squares.

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The 3/4" portion for lifting the string is a single layer of 0.040" brass. The handle portion is doubled over and soldered.
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That sure would look nice with some rosewood scales for the handle :)

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Yes it would be pretty but you wouldn't want it to be too thick.

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Nice!

I was gonna do the setup class, paid my $300 deposit and no one else signed up. Musta seen who they’d be spending the weekend with - idunno

I’m pretty sure I got the idea for mine off of the Ann Arbor website. This thing is such a time saver when cutting nut slots.


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Great little tool, would be lost without mine.
Mike, put the arch in yours as shown in Steves first picture.

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Please allow me to be the stupid one.
What do you use it for?

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Pulling the string out of a nut slot.

Are you guys just pulling straight up with these things or leveraging the string out somehow? I have the little stewmac one that sort of leverages the string out, but is only so-so.

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Pmaj7 wrote:
Pulling the string out of a nut slot.

Are you guys just pulling straight up with these things or leveraging the string out somehow? I have the little stewmac one that sort of leverages the string out, but is only so-so.

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We pull pretty much straight up. If you leave it in your less dominant hand and file with the dominant hand you can rest your hand with the lifter in it on the nut and kind of sort of roll... your hand on it's side as you lift giving you a bit of leverage. That's what I do.


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Pulling the string out of a nut slot.

Are you guys just pulling straight up with these things or leveraging the string out somehow? I have the little stewmac one that sort of leverages the string out, but is only so-so.

Pat
Hey Pat, I had one of those Stew Mac string lifters too and I agree, it's just so-so. The Collins lifter works really well.

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