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There are creaks that you hear in the neck, along the fretboard, and those can be simple repositioning or some glue residue cracking away. The nut thread creaking really needs to be lubed away. You are really stressing out the threads, and can encourage premature stripping out. Ibanez & other brass hex nuts are big offenders, while Fender style bullets do this less often, maybe because its a steel against steel, I don't know. But that creaking also means you aren't applying smooth torque to the rod, but rather incremental jerks (that's a good band name) to the rod. It's harder to get an accurate adjustment that way. Sort of a "too far, then oops, not far enough" syndrome.
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