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If the slots are tapered towards the machineheads on a tilted back headstock, the floor of the slot that remains after "thinning" will be lower than before the material was removed. Not by much but by enough to rob you of the few thousandths of an inch that you require for the strings to clear the first fret.
Your options are:
- partially refill the nut slots with Tusq dust and superglue and recut them.
- buy another nut and "thin" it down to the required width on the face away from the fingerboard.
Don't throw away the nut in your photograph. It can probably be persuaded to fit another guitar.It plays pretty nicely, strings are more slinky due to the less abrupt break angle behind the bridge, action is quite low and no buzzing anywhere on the neck so its pretty much set up now to just how I like it.
I think it might have to go and get a proper nut cut for it by a tech, the idea of having the old one sat up on an unglued paper shim doesnt fill me with confidence.