I hate doing this but you might want to get some locking nut shims. Why I hate doing this is because it is trial and error to find the right balance. I have a strat that the D string was doing the exact thing. Had to add one shim, tune it back up, add another shim and then play with the relief +/- and do this process a few times. Most of the times adjusting the Floyd height or playing with the neck relief is the key but sometimes the nut is too low. Also sometimes you need to shim the neck itself to either angle it downward or angle it upward. Sounds like you said that you already have the relief really loose and maybe you need to mechanical shim the nut or the neck and then you can tighten the truss rod back up to compensate the other way for the mechanical shimming. I know this is a huge headache with Floyd equipped guitars but at times it is a necessary evil. Most guitars that have given me grief with singular problems like this end up being the sweetest sounding guitars in the end because from sheer determination and trial/error you have gotten the string height and neck relief just perfect and the harmonics just jump out.
Naw man give me all you got! Thanks I appreciate it. I suppose it could be the nut but it has a gap between strings and first fret when I fret the third fret. And I have other guitars that have lower nuts with no issues. The ones I've cut myself are lower and don't have any issues. I had to sand the shelf down a lot to accommodate the new R3 nut, apparently the old ones are shorter. So I stopped just short of perfect, at least I thought I did. It's probably the highest nut of all my guitars but still intonates fine.
Try a new nut before going too crazy. That was usually my issue with a pinched or plinking string. I could see nothing wrong with the nut. Even after filing it still had the issue in most of my cases. I figured it was just a faulty made nut. There not as consistent as some may think. 90% of the time a new nut fixed. Of course there are other things that cause weird notes, which I have had as well.
This is a new nut. Which is not a total waste because the original was R2 and I prefer R3, I've been wanting to swap it. Regarding this noise, the new nut made zero difference. And as mentioned above, I had to sand the shelf alot and left room just to make sure I didn't go too far. This new nut is higher than the old nut was.
Yes I had to do same thing when I went from r2 to r3. The R3 is slightly wider and taller.
Replying to this twice because I wanted to mention that I use either a magnifying glass or use my phone camera (slo motion works great) to look right at the nut and look for movement when I play or move the string. I fixed the previous nut from shitty intonation by inspecting it like that.
I originally leveled and crowned the frets and they are still good I think. It feels great and this noise doesn't happen always but start doing any Van Halen-y hard playing including hard pulls to the open D and just CLANK! Imagine the intro to I'm the One.
That first flurry of open pull offs ends with a big CLANK!Is the neck compound radius or flat? If compound, the nut might look good as we always typically look a the string clearance on the first few frets on the E, A strings but the D and G are inherently pretty close to the frets on a compound neck.
Straight 12". Almost all my guitars are.