Strat...nut shaping and slotting

[maxtheaxe]

I still haven't gotten up the nerve to execute the neck swap on my '95 American Deluxe Roadhouse Strat. I've been strategizing about this, trying to work it in sometime between gigs...don't want to get it hung up and not have it for a gig when I need it.

One of the things I'm wondering about is the radius of the nut slots on a neck with a compound radius. Do you measure the slot depth and cumulative radius against the first fret as usual? Do you try to go for the flatter radius, try to spit the difference?

FYI this is in regard to a Mighty Mite replacement neck, 9.5"-12' radius, ebony board. The nut I've chosen is a graphtec graphite/teflon trem nut. The nut groove on this neck is flat, rather than radiused as Fender nut grooves.

Thanks!

[sliding-tom]

Don't know if I'm right but I'd set up the nut with a 9.5" radius and the bridge with the flatter one so the radius of the strings would follow the compound radius of your fretboard.

[maxtheaxe]

Thanks Tom...that makes a lot of sense.