String spacing at the saddle for pin-bridge Gibson acoustics has typically been 2 1/8" (54mm), whether the nut width is 1 9/16" (40mm), 1 11/16" (43mm), or 1.72" (43.7mm). Remember that the width at the nut is only half the equation. If it does, you are probably the same people who can differentiate the sound of a rosewood fingerboard from that of an ebony fingerboard. I honestly doubt that for most people, the difference between 43mm and 43.7mm at the nut is going to make a lot of difference in your playing style. Much depends on your style of playing, and what you are used to. Just like the Gibson electrics, this shrank to 1 9/16" (40mm) from about 1964-'65 until the dawn of the post-Norlin era (date of change uncertain). Most of the Gibson flat-top acoustics I have measured from post WWII until 1963 measure 1 11/16" (43mm). Gibson electrics from the "golden age" of 1958-1964 were mostly 1 11/16" (43mm), changing to 1 9/16" ( 40mm) from about 1965 to 1981, when they generally returned to 1 11/16". "Wide nut" in Gibson terms generally means anything 1 11/16" (43mm) or wider. A wide nut would be 1 3/4"(1.75),or 1.725" at least, Gibson's Slope D's default.ฤก 11/16" is Martin's Dread default, narrow nut.
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