We’ve noticed a trend of guitarists taking a do-it-yourself approach to setting up, maintaining, and even building their own instruments — whether they’re putting together a Partscaster or starting with a body blank, some carefully selected hardware, and a dream!

Our friends at MusicNomad are empowering guitarists with premium-quality tools at affordable prices to turn that dream into a reality. MusicNomad diamond-coated nut files help you tackle one of the more challenging guitar-building and maintenance tasks: filing your nut! Forget trying to carve string slots with the old nail file you found in the medicine cabinet.

These professional-grade nut files feature a revolutionary string-shape blade design, and they cut and polish simultaneously, ensuring precision cuts that prevent strings from improperly seating at the nut, which can cause slipping or binding. The industrial-strength diamond coating ensures this nut file will work seamlessly for all the most common nut materials such as nylon, bone, graphite, and TUSQ — it even works amazingly on saddles.

And the MusicNomad nut files feature a detachable ergonomic handle for added comfort and control. Great tools, like MusicNomad’s diamond-coated nut files, won’t turn you into a master luthier overnight, but they’re an excellent place to start! This set includes an organizational storage case that accommodates all 16 files, along with a convenient cleaning brush.