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How the H did this break???

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Vics53

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My guitar is a 2020 SG Special. Played it the other night and I couldn't figure out why the low E string had so much string to fret buzz.

Took it out again tonight trying to figure out what was going on. Took a look around the headstock and.......the nut is broken!! What?!?!?

This guitar has never left my house and I've never loaned it out. It's never been dropped, abused in anyway or has ever been bumped into anything. Tuning is standard and the strings are .010 to .046. Even in it's case it's never been dropped or slammed into anything.

I'd include pictures but I see nothing for attaching images. So I'll try to explain this the best I can.

The crack starts right in line with the top of the fingerboard and goes down on an angle towards the headstock. Same thing on the other side. So this nut is cracked all the way through left to right.

I'm at a total loss for an explaination with this. Any theories as to what may have caused this?
 
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Could be defective material in that particular nut. It's a TUSQ/GraphTech, right?

A theory: the nut wasn't properly and fully seated into the cut wood nut slot and pressure allowed a fissure to develop given a void behind the nut given compressing into the voided area.

Good luck!
 
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JB, offhand I have no idea of the material, but it's the nut that came on the guitar.

Wonder how often this has happened on other Gibsons?
 
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The last two or three nut changes I've done were because the nut was broken at the low E string.
In each case, the low E string had been wound around the tuner in the wrong direction (on the outside).
 
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Well, I have other guitars (including two Les Pauls) and nothing like this has ever happened. So if in the event I did something wrong I have no idea what I did.
 
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Thanks GreenBurst! I just created a new thread with pictures in the Gibson USA pub.
 
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