What would cause my G string to slip out of the nut?

geepers0677

Getting well into a jangly solo moment last night, my G string slipped out of the nut, pinged the tuning a tone down and then was a bugger to get back in and tune back up.

Is it just aggressive picking or is the groove too shallow on my G&L ASAT. Not had this before so maybe just a thorough clean of the grooves in the nut?

Would've been a problem live.

I have the guitar at work with me today, so can experiment and investigate. The groove doesn't seem any more shallow than any of the others...

ESchap

KIller thread title!  B-)

monquixote

I have far more trouble with my nuts slipping out of my g-string.

ICBM

lol

Is there a G/D string tree? If not, how far down the post is the G string wound?

On many Fender-type headstocks you need to wind on much more G string than normal, in order to create enough break angle at the nut.

chrisj1602

I had a new Telecaster and this happened on the B string, I just took a file to it, worked fine.

geepers0677

thanks dudes - have changed strings and wound much more on than I normally would - fingers crossed!

axisus

That's strange? normally the G string gets stuck in the crack.

geepers0677

fretfinder

axisus said:

That's strange? normally the G string gets stuck in the crack.

I had that! Sent the LP to a luthier to correct it - he filed my slot too deep so now my G string is a bit twangy!  :-S

bertie

make sure the windings go down as you tune.........it'll increase the break angle at the nut 

ThePrettyDamned

The e string slips out of my nut on the jazzbastard and it's because the nut isn't cut properly, but more importantly, I don't have any string trees. So no bending allowed yet

EdGrip

No, no, hang on. Firstly, let's clear this up. If you're going to have this thread title, it needs to be "Why does my G-string keep slipping off my nut." Don't narrowly dodge an innuendo thread title!