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How to Lubricate the Nut with Graphite on an Acoustic Guitar

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Summary: Learn how to lubricate the nut of your acoustic guitar with graphite to ensure that your instrument will remain in tune and play music beautifully in this free video series.

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Matt Graham Matt Graham is a graduate from Texas A&M University and pursuing a Graduate degree from the University of Texas. He also has a love for cooking and not much m... read more

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How to Lubricate the Nut with Graphite on an Acoustic Guitar

MATT GRAHAM: Now, what we're going to do is a little trick. If you tune your guitar and you sometimes hear a high-pitched squeak that sounds like maybe the string is slipping or about to break, it's probably the string slipping through the nut when it gets caught. And so what you can do is lubricate the nut with graphite from just a regular graphite pencil. A locksmith will often use graphite to lubricate keyholes and it's just gonna--you're just going to take the pencil and just kinda twist it and turn it in the nut at the spot where each string rest to just rub off some of that graphite into each space. It doesn't take much. And if you have a sharp pencil, you're actually basically drawing on the inside of the nut and you can obviously erase any stray marks you make. But, yeah, again this is just going to help the string to slide through there when you're tuning and when you're bending the strings if you're playing music that would have you do that. So yeah, I'm just getting a nice coating around each one and you don't have to do this very often, you know? The graphite will stay in there. Maybe once every--two or three times when you change your strings you can do this. It's just a good trick that will improve the life of your strings and save you from some of that slippage during tuning.

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