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Originally Posted by ljguitar
[size=2]There was a lot of discussion about widening the nut on the alleged 1.8" Seagull fingerboards, and what people discovered is the 1.8" is actually 46mm, and that calculates to 1.75" not 1.8".
French speaking Canada (where they were built) is on the metric system - as was the factory. Whomever maintained the website was converting the actual measurement of 46mm to 1.8" instead of 1.75, and there really was no extra fingerboard width.
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I respectfully disagree with the math above: 46mm * (1in/25.4mm) = 1.811in (rounded), not 1.75".
The 1.8" nut used on Seagulls is the
GraphTech TUSQ PQ-1801-00. The spec'd width is given as 1.8" and 45.9mm. GraphTech told me that's the OEM nut they supply to Godin.
It is true that the E-to-e distance on this nut is 1.5", which is the same distance as on GraphTech's (and most other) 1.75" nuts. I am grateful for you pointing this out in the past, Larry.
It does appear to me Yamaha uses metric nut widths and rounds to the nearest traditional English measurement. For instance, FG guitars are spec'd with 43mm nuts on the Japanese websites, and given as 1-11/16" on the US website. L series are 44m and given as 1-3/4". 43mm is a little wider than 1-11/16 (1.693", not 1.6875"), and 44mm is a little bit narrower than 1-3/4" (1.72" vs 1.75"). The E-to-e spacing of these nuts is not given.