It's nit-pickin' time …

[t100d]

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!

[jtcnj]

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.

[ID10t]

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.

[nomadh]

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

[Mossman]

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.

[jtcnj]

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.

[t100d]

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 …