Black-Viper75
Just Passing Through
After the job you did on your uke, you can handle this. You’ll need a razor blade, small hammer, small flat blade screw driver, super glue, and maybe some fine sandpaper.
Score the edges around the old nut with the razor blade (or a hobby knife, probably safer). You do this to make sure you don’t chip any of the finish when you remove the old nut.
Place the flat blade screw driver against the nut on the fretboard side, and lightly tap the handle end of the screw driver with the hammer. That old nut will just pop off.
Use the sand paper and lightly clean the area where the old nut was.
Put a couple of drops of superglue on the Core nut, and put it in place.
Done.
Since I'm having some tuning issues on my 35th Anniversary SE CU I'm considering a nut change but I'm a total noob when it comes to DIY guitar repairs. I took my guitar to get it professional set up yesterday and my friend who's going to do the set suggested that he'll put some Stewmac Guitar Grease in the nut slots and see how it goes before considering a nut change.