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== Nut ==
The nut is an often overlooked area of the guitar. It needs to be '''positioned properly ''' for the guitar to '''intonate correctly'''. It has a strong affect on the action. '''An improperly filed nut can cause tuning and sustain issues or cause buzzing/ringing on open strings. ''' I recommend having a professional adjust your nut. To file it correctly it is best done with specialized filing tools, which are too costly to justify a one-time use. I like my nut to be like the 0th fret - providing a similar clearance over the 1st fret for open strings as they have over the 2nd fret when fretting the 1st fret. Any lower and they'll buzz. Any higher and intonation is off and action is unnecessarily high. The strings should make firm contact with the nut right where they leave the nut and travel over the fretboard. The grooves should point directly towards the tuning pegs. They should be wide enough to fit the string in easily and so that it doesn't pinch when tuning or bending. It also has to be smooth so the string slides easily over it and doesn't break. But it can't be so wide as to allow the string to '''rattle in the groove'''. They have to be deep enough so the strings don't pop out, but shallow enough so the strings can easily fit into and out of the nut.
The simplest and easiest tweak to help fix a nut is to '''draw in the grooves'' with a pencil'''. The graphite will lubricate the string's movement in the groove, so it doesn't pinch. This helps keep your strings in tune better.
== Body/Fretboard/Tuners/Neck-through ==