Replacing the nut is not as simple as it might look. If you haven't done it before I highly recommend to take your guitar to a luthier
If the nut has a common paint surface with neck, you might break it while removing the nut. Usually some pieces of old nut night stay in the not slot with some glue. Nut alwasy has to have pefect contact on the bottom side with the neck so any pieces of old nut or glue has to be removed and the slot has to be pefectly flat. Othwerwise you might loose some sustain or treble tones.
Also...most important - even if you are lucky with no nut surface issues, there are still slots in the nut to be adjusted (routed) for each string individually. Very often if you put the nut just the way it is, you will have tuning issues between open strings and fretted notes due to high strings pressure (strings height on the nut). The lower you cut the slots in your nut, the less tunning differences will be between open stringsand fretted notes. Unfortunately it's usually a compromise between tuning perfection and fret buzz level
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