Need help with a 1953 Les Paul Restore Need Pics of side nut

I am restoring a 1953 les paul and its was broken in a drunken rage. The neck was cracked like nothing I have seen, and it was converted with a new bridge in the 60s sometime. Owner wanted it like it was before it was broken so I have been working at it.

I need to see a close up pic of the neck angle and the nut. From the side and top. it looks like this might have a weird angled nut.

any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks a ton!!

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Big D Guitars said:

I am restoring a 1953 les paul and its was broken in a drunken rage. The neck was cracked like nothing I have seen, and it was converted with a new bridge in the 60s sometime. Owner wanted it like it was before it was broken so I have been working at it.

I need to see a close up pic of the neck angle and the nut. From the side and top. it looks like this might have a weird angled nut.

any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks a ton!!

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Are you repairing the original wood? Yikes, that's a job.
I seem to remember an article in one or another magazine ages ago about a Pete Townsend LP Deluxe that went headfirst out a window.
Much later they went to restore it and baseically rebuilt the neck with the original headstock and a piece on the treble side, maybe from 7th fret to the heel, with new wood otherwise.
As to the request, I don't have pictures, but FWIU, nuts would have been perpendicular to the neck in all cases out of the factory. Being handmade at the time, there may be a degree or so of variation, but if it's significantly angled, it's not an original.