Leverantör av reservdelar till Levin

[IanD]

Hej,

Min fru har en Levin W36 från 1976 och vill byta ut gitarmuttern.



Några idéer om var jag kan få en ersättnings gitarrmutter - antingen i galalit (helst) eller oblekt ben?

Tack så mycket för hjälpen

[Peter]

if I understood it all right, you are from an English-speaking country and have done a google translation.

The word "gitarrmutter" you probably mean is the swedish word "översadel".

The word nut in English becomes i.a. "mutter" and "nöt" in Swedish.

So: What you're looking for is probably an ÖVERSADEL.

Unfortunately I can not help you here but I think there are others here who can contribute something.

Otherwise you have www.stewmac.com available.

Good luck with searching and Merry Christmas

[IanD]

Dec 24, 2020 10:19:59 GMT 1 Peter said:

if I understood it all right, you are from an English-speaking country and have done a google translation.

The word "gitarrmutter" you probably mean is the swedish word "stallsadel".

The word nut in English becomes i.a. "mutter" and "nöt" in Swedish.

So: What you're looking for is probably a STALLSADEL.

Unfortunately I can not help you here but I think there are others here who can contribute something.

Otherwise you have www.stewmac.com available.

Good luck with searching and Merry Christmas

Thank you for responding - yes you are (half) correct. 
My wife knows very little about guitars and my Swedish isn't strong enough to translate!
She has started playing her old guitar again and the strings were buzzing so I said it may be the 'nut'...and so off we go on the Magical Swenglish mystery tour!
Thank you for responding so graciously!

[Peter]

Dec 24, 2020 14:16:52 GMT 1 IanD said:

Dec 24, 2020 10:19:59 GMT 1 Peter said:

if I understood it all right, you are from an English-speaking country and have done a google translation.

The word "gitarrmutter" you probably mean is the swedish word "översadel".

The word nut in English becomes i.a. "mutter" and "nöt" in Swedish.

So: What you're looking for is probably a ÖVERSADEL.

Unfortunately I can not help you here but I think there are others here who can contribute something.

Otherwise you have www.stewmac.com available.

Good luck with searching and Merry Christmas

Thank you for responding - yes you are (half) correct. 
My wife knows very little about guitars and my Swedish isn't strong enough to translate!
She has started playing her old guitar again and the strings were buzzing so I said it may be the 'nut'...and so off we go on the Magical Swenglish mystery tour!
Thank you for responding so graciously!

Of course I meant "översadel"

I change that in the text

[rogerh]

You typically don't buy a new nut, you make one or have one made. It's a pretty easy job for any luthier or guitar repairman close to you.

Either that or fixing up the old one with a thin hardwood shim glued under the nut followed by filing down the string cuts to the right height using nut files. The right height is the height of the frets or a little bit higher. There are tons of information on the "net" how to do it. A very good place to start is www.frets.com. This one for example.

www.frets.com/FretsPages/Musician/GenSetup/NutAction/nutaction.html

[IanD]

Dec 24, 2020 20:02:26 GMT 1 rogerh said:

You typically don't buy a new nut, you make one or have one made. It's a pretty easy job for any luthier or guitar repairman close to you.

Either that or fixing up the old one with a thin hardwood shim glued under the nut followed by filing down the string cuts to the right height using nut files. The right height is the height of the frets or a little bit higher. There are tons of information on the "net" how to do it. A very good place to start is www.frets.com. This one for example.

www.frets.com/FretsPages/Musician/GenSetup/NutAction/nutaction.html

Ah, thank you.

I wanted to remain as close to the original as possible so was hoping there were galalit nuts around I could buy.

Happy to take a shot at a blank bone nut and see where I get.

Thanks again,

God Jul,
Ian

[rogerh]

Well. I have some gallalith nuts replaced from Levin guitars. Give me the exact width (in mm please) and possibly height of the nut together with a picture and I may have a matching one.

[IanD]

Dec 25, 2020 21:56:51 GMT 1 rogerh said:

Well. I have some gallalith nuts replaced from Levin guitars. Give me the exact width (in mm please) and possibly height of the nut together with a picture and I may have a matching one.

Hej,

Thank you!

Length    1 5/8"     41.275mm

Width     5/32"      4.7625mm

Height    5/16"      7.9375mm

E to e     1 7/16"      36.5mm

[rogerh]

No, as I suspected, none of the replaced Levin nuts I have matched the size of yours.

[Tyko]

I see your written "it may be the nut" as a very unsure statement and before you at all think about replace the nut you should know if that is the problem. Otherwise you will just chase around for the problem without knowing what to search for.....First you have to adjust the truss rod of the guitar right. Then you have to check if all frets are in the right level and after that see how it is with the string action and maybe also adjust the height of the bridge bone. Somewhen after the adjustment of the truss rod and the checking of the frets you can also control the nut by putting a capo on fret two and check if there is any air between each string and the first fret. There are not needed much air, less than you can see for the thin strings, just so you can hear a light clicking when you tap the string there. If any of the strings laying on the first fret you can easily raise the nut with a thin chim under it and readjust each string slot again.

[IanD]

Dec 30, 2020 23:08:48 GMT 1 Tyko said:

I see your written "it may be the nut" as a very unsure statement and before you at all think about replace the nut you should know if that is the problem. Otherwise you will just chase around for the problem without knowing what to search for.....First you have to adjust the truss rod of the guitar right. Then you have to check if all frets are in the right level and after that see how it is with the string action and maybe also adjust the height of the bridge bone. Somewhen after the adjustment of the truss rod and the checking of the frets you can also control the nut by putting a capo on fret two and check if there is any air between each string and the first fret. There are not needed much air, less than you can see for the thin strings, just so you can hear a light clicking when you tap the string there. If any of the strings laying on the first fret you can easily raise the nut with a thin chim under it and readjust each string slot again.

You are, of course, 100% correct to describe this approach.

My reason for looking at the nut, probably incorrectly, is that it is only the B-string that is buzzing. Therefore I concluded that the set up and action are likely OK. In fact, the action is amazing on all the other strings!

Also, when I looked closely at the notches in the nut using a loupe, the G-string notch looks like the string has not been sitting centre, i.e. the notch is a little too wide; the B-string notch completely swallows up the string. My conclusion here is that the nut is probably a bit worn - the guitar has seen a lot of action over the last 44 years... 

Thank you very much for taking the time to reply and I can easily do the action check at the first fret to confirm if the problem is the whole action or just the one string - great idea - and I must confess that using a shim never occurred to me! D'oh    Found a good reference here: Haze Guitars

Thanks again,

Got nytt år!

Ian

Random data point: the B string starts to buzz only after the guitar has been played for about 15 minutes.

[way2loud]

Perhaps this would help?

Happy New Year!

[IanD]

Dec 31, 2020 18:32:32 GMT 1 way2loud said:

Perhaps this would help?

Happy New Year!

Oh wow!

Tack