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Was idly wondering about string ferrules on a Tele—in common with a number of posts I have come across, some of the ferrules on my new Indio Retro fell out when I changed strings. Some people have glued them in, but I was wondering how or if that would in any way affect tone or sustain? Maybe just a sliver of aluminum foil would be better?
Yes, this is nit-pickin' of the highest order, right?

Maybe I'm just dealing with the fact that tomorrow I go in for a CT-guided needle biopsy in my lung, which entails sticking the needle in between the ribs and into a nodule in the lung—my pulmonary doctor is 99% sure there's no cause for alarm, but better to know …
Not really freaked , it is what it is.
Will let y'all know.

Back to important stuff in the real world—what about those pesky ferrules?
Have also ordered Graph Tek Tusq string trees—oh boy! Oh boy!

Good luck on your procedure!
I'm in for a cardio catheter tomorrow myself.

I put a little dab of wood glue on my Indio ferrules; I cant see either method affecting tone of the whole, larger mass of the body.

Yesterday, I did a bone nut replacement on mine. A big chunk of the fretboard on the headstock side broke off while removing the old one.
I glued it back on but you can see it. Oh well; its a $90. guitar.

The important thing - the nut slot on mine is cut WAY deeper than any of the other fender style neck guitars I have.
I had to add 4 layers of business card shims. It is good enough; plays properly.

I have bone nut blanks around here that I have not yet been able to find, will have a go at it when I do.

My guitar would not stay in tune with the stock plastic nut, even after I:
1. added pencil graphite, then 2. widened the slots a little, even with the pencil.
It tended to go sharp ( mainly on the D throuh hi-e).
I tune after a series of bends on each string,
If I push on the nut side of the string, it goes flat a little (back to tune) then sharp after bending.

The bone nut almost completely solved this, without pencil, except the D binds just a little bit during the first play session with the new nut.

I'm still amazed how good this cheap guitar is.

I don't know who saves how much money and how, but nuts seem like a weird way to save money in material or labor. It's like if a restaurant ran out of wings so the waiter brought you chitlins instead.

Good luck to all on procedures.

Good luck to both of you. On your medical and its distractions.

First: Good luck on your procedures, guys...

Second: I've had to deal with loose ferrules on a few import guitars/bodies, and a little wood glue won't affect a thing. In fact, a lot of wood glue won't affect a thing, methinks. Carl Thompson makes these basses out of numerous pieces of wood all glued together, and people pay thousands of dollars and wait a couple of years to get one. I never heard any of those people complaining about resonance, or sustain... I think they're ugly AF, but they're highly regarded instruments.

Hey my cardio thing went fine.
Found those bone nut blanks!
just need to get a belt for my sander.
Still digging this tele.

@t100d sorry for the hijack; just wanted to share info in one place on the same make / model guitar.

Yeah, me too! Clean bill of health, no cancer, no TB, no active bad stuff—dodged a bullet, I guess!
But then I got real bad sciatica right in the middle of playing gigs, sanding and painting a large balcony rail, and prepping our little RV for a two-week trip down to Corvallis, out to the cost and back up to Washington!!
Fortunately I have a really good chiropractor, who has made an incredible difference just in one session (two more before we leave).

Gettin' old ain't for cissies …