Göldo Zero Glide ZGZS7F Nut

My best T-Style guitar is a custom build, with specs made to my own taste, hence my very own dream guitar, which plays, sounds and feels like I always wanted a guitar to.

I bought the Göldo Zero Glide (Tele) nut kit out of curiosity, and kept it there for months before finding the courage to try put it on.

Then, when I felt bold enough to risk, I've set to spend a couple of hours for watching videos, figuring out what makeshift tools I could find around the house, and actually do the job in one single gulp.

I had some serious expectations, always found the zero-fret concept absolutely superior in engineering terms, but I was skeptical the Zero Glide take on the subject was really as good as the real thing.

Well... it is. It's all the best a zero-fret fingerboard can deliver, without having to order it custom made, and without renouncing the neck and fingerboard you already have and love.

I've installed it myself with the most basic DIY tools, and my dream guitar improved beyond what I may ever expect: intonation in the first three positions, attack, sustain, clarity, structure, consistency of tone between open- and fretted strings... it's all there as promised, in hardly two hours in total, spent between training, tooling and working on it.

Even the one thing that did not look proper to my eye, the slots in the bone nut, which I found out being genuine bone, after a few minutes' swipe with a standard nail polishing pad now looks perfectly smooth, polished and without hard edges.

I'll soon install one in all my other instruments... it's too good to be true, and shall I want to sell any instrument to someone who prefers less intonation, less attack, less sustain, less clarity, less structure... I'll simply replace the Zero Glide with the original nut in a couple of minutes!

What's not to love in this? Hopefully it'll sell millions of pieces, so that, possibly, one day more and more manufacturers will be offering more and more of their own stock guitars with zero fret.

A zero fret gives your guitar more accurate intonation and better tuning accuracy and stability. This Glido is a standard nut replacement that adds a zero fret and also offers you four fret heights so that you can more accurately adjust string height.

I would suggest using this in tandem with Graph Tech PS8001-00 height-adjustable bridge saddles to give you complete control over the action height on your guitar (once you have the neck relief set with the truss rod).

Pre-slotted versions are available for Fender and Gibson necks and you can also have an unslotted version to cut yourself or give to your luthier to set up.

I had it fitted to an American Standard Stratocaster, and I really liked what it was doing for me, an improvement in sound for open strings and a lower action overall.

I decided to change to a set of 13 to 56 D'addario Strings and I needed to open up the slots in the nut (or should I say string guide?) my nut files would need to be 10 times finer to not break the bone used for the string guide.

Given how much of it is removed to accommodate the zero fret wire, it really should be manufactured from a material similar to the Tusq nut to enable opening up, or the slots made wider, as the difference would not be significant with a lighter string gauge given there is a zero fret in place.