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Lefty nut, my initial thought too, but then I looked again and it slopes away in the wrong direction too, so if we went back to the idea that it is the original nut, just replaced back to front that would explain it no?
Looking at the high e string it seems to be sat well down in a big slot, the b string likewise, while the heavier (lower) strings appear to be sitting progressively higher as if the slots are too narrow.
Just my observation.
But.....as others have said, "if it aint broke don't fix it" so if it plays well now you can ignore all of the 'experts' being critical (me included) and leave it alone.
It just looks like the high e is like a preschool kid getting lost in a California king size bed and low e is like a 7 foot forward center on top of a kids bed. And it's sloping towards the neck instead of the headstock. If you flip it around, you get the goldilocks effects, everything is just right.
Maybe a crazy lefty owned it and/or worked on it (Wasn’t me, this time!)
My ALD nut, lefty nut. The string spacing is great (noting, it is a personal taste somewhat).
Check out the slot treatment on the G,B, and E. Pretty tight at the fretboard end, and then a lot of polished bigger slot for those strings as they taper down towards the tuners. Haven’t asked, but I bet this is intentional (Gerald at ALD in Rouen is a brilliant guy, surely he’s thought this out).
[In my head I was thinking a wider bit of polished space at the headstock-side of the nut would most benefit the D and G strings, e.g., the strings with a sharper bends from the nut to the typical string windings, but that’s not what’s happening here].
Oops! My fault. Hasty with the nut. Yeah, I put it on backwards. The slot widths are pretty much even across the nut, unless looking through a magnifying glass. I just wasn't careful enough. Of course, there are other ways to see the mishap, and I just overlooked them. After all the time it took to do the refinishing, I was too much in a hurry to get the strings on and start playing the guitar. I was sloppy with winding the strings as well. Please don't rush to judgment!
Thanks to all of you for noticing this error with the nut (and for referencing the guitar nut, that is, and not me)!
Oh hey good catch. Yes the nut was backwards. BTW I'm surprised that the low E string, etc would fit in the nut slots with the nut backwards. The nut slots may be WAY too wide if the strings actually fit with it backwards. The slot width should be only just slightly wider than the string diameters. There are special nut slotting files available that match the string diameters.