Yngwie malmsteen uses a brass nut on his guitar Why?

Question:Why does yngwie use a brass nut on hisw guitar, and did he or does he used japaniese strats

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For the same reason they used to use brass in electrical lines, since it is an excellent conductor of electricity. You don't want anything to interfere with the vibration of the string and brass would definitely be a good metal for that purpose. It is also relatively soft, so would be less likely to cut into the strings like harder metals do. I can't tell you how many times I have seen the windings frayed at the nut, or at a particular fret because the guitar was never set up properly or maintained. Hope this helps.

Which guitars did you stage?

Yngwie Malmsteen: All old stuff. My Strats are from ’67 up to about ’72. I just love the look and sound of cream-white Strats with maple necks and the big headstock, like the Hendrix Woodstock guitar. They’re all customized with deep scallops and huge frets. You can drive a train over the top of these things. They all have brass nuts. I like them because they don’t wear out. The tremolo is stock. The pickups are DiMarzio HS-3 in the back, and the middle and front are YJM models, which are my own DiMarzio pickup. It’s a single-coil sound, but it’s a humbucking stack. It’s very cool. I never really liked those double-coil things. You don’t get as much attack in the guitar. And they’re all four-bolt, as well. Even if they were three-bolt originally, I’ve had them re-done.

Fender Japan was set up in 1982, so that would mean he doesn't use Japanese Strats. Yngwie Malmsteen: "All old stuff. My Strats are from ’67 up to about ’72."

Do you drill the fourth hole under the original three-bolt plate, to keep it looking original?

Yngwie Malmsteen: No, it’s a regular four-bolt plate. But not only that, the four screws that hold in the neck are not wood screws, they’re machine screws. Inside the neck they’re reversed threaded brass inserts that go into the neck. With the machine screws, it’s as close to having a neck-through-body guitar, as far as sustain and steadiness. It’s ridiculous. You can move the neck around on a stock Strat, but not on mine.

I think a brass nut would add sustain, no?