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estebanana -> RE: Nuts - V slots versus U slots - your opinions please (Apr. 30 2025 2:06:00)
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It looks like it would make a better nut than what you previously had. Although most makers use graduated sets of nut slot files, if you do the Vee accurately it will work.
It’s just my opinion, and Pablo is a master teacher, that it’s ‘six of one, half dozen of another’. Which ever method you choose, your technique has to the best you can do, and then better. With the Vee system to make it work you need files that cut crisp hard planes. Some practice with the files to get a good technique might be a good idea.
Filing in situations like this is more effective if you don’t saw back and forth. The stroke should be one direction and guided straight as an arrow through the work. My teacher the bow maker used to say imagine you can shrink yourself to the scale of the slot and stand in it to inspect it. That would give you a full sized map of the terrain you’re trying to make into flat planes.
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