Bad Nut From Bavarian Framus

This is just a general visual reference for interested friends.

(Say "Bad Nut From Bavarian Framus" five times real fast.

Oh, Sure!  It is obvious now!  It didn't look this bad when the string breakage started!  At first, one of the 1st strings would break at the nut for no obvious reason and no evidence of why.

I bought the guitar new in about 1964.   The plastic nut has decomposed (I was told) and produced chemicals to induce bad and rapid corrosion of strings.  String would break very fast, but this was a long time before it looked this any where like this.

The corrosion showing on the zero fret is from the copper oxide that was on the strings.  There was no corrosion on the fret.

This was the part I was worrying about.   A lot of truss rods are more soft iron than good steel.

I see that this will clean up OK.  The cut-off washer behind the truss rod nut sort of coupled the oxidation chemical/gases down to the truss rod nut.

We need to remember that the job of a nut on a zero fret guitar is a lot easier than on a guitar without zero fret.

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