“For centuries guitars have been designed and built using unchanging formulas for nut placement and intonation, and for centuries intonation problems have been accepted as an inevitable deficiency of the instrument. But incorrect nut placement and improper intonation methods directly influence intonation."
Here Buzz has misidentified the problems he has experienced in tuning the guitar as a design or technical deficiency in the instrument, rather than the true cause; the inability of the natural harmonic series (which are the only intervals our brains will allow us to recognise as “correct’) to resolve to the octave.
