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Normally, the nut is glued on against the end of the fingerboard rather than into a slot within the fingerboard. There is a knack to removing the damaged original nut without breaking off chunks of the finish in the surrounding area.
Removal and direct replacement are the easy bit. There then follows a bunch of hand work to make the replacement nut suit the host guitar - even for commercial *pre-slotted* ones.
No offence intended but the fact that you are even asking this question suggests to me that you should turn the job over to somebody more experienced.
https://i.imgur.com/74zWl9k.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/bM3z8Cy.jpg
pics of damaged nut
The bad news is that - even if a replacement nut is provided - the full attentions of a luthier could easily cost thirty quid before V.A.T.
get a pre-slotted replacement and sand the bottom until it’s close to the nut you just removed
glue in place with two dots of superglue on the bottom of the nut
at at this point it will likely play as well as it ever did.
Sure, you can spend longer refining the nut height, and it will make it better. It’s a rockburn, you will have to work hard to make it worse than it was before.
Some miniature triangle files will be fine for refining it. If you want to learn how to do it properly buy some nut files, but not just for this
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I spy a learning opportunity for the young lad whose guitar this is.
Either yourself or the owner try fitting a new plastic nut & it will probably be at least as good as it was before.
It is a very cheap guitar & you have nothing to lose.
It can also be vastly improved in terms of playablity & sound easily & cheaply should the owner wish to.
As Wez said it will be difficult to make it worse than it was, the old nut is a moulded one and doesn't look like the grooves have been filed with anything like expert care, although they have clearly been filed - but the material seems at least to have been fairly hard, which is why it chipped.
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