Kaish Adjustable Brass Nut & Locking Tuners - Installation and Review!
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Let's install a Kaish Adjustable Nut and Locking Tuners on my custom strat-style guitar, the Annihilator!
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I don't think I totally agree with locking nuts. I have Floyd Rose guitars, and they have a locking nut. They do not have any additional physical limiters or stop devices. They are full floating. So, they do not always return 100% to the same in-tune position. I have a strat with a Super-Vee Bladerunner tremolo and the Super-Vee Mag-Lock tremolo stabilizer. I set it up as full floating. The instructions suggest using spacers under the string trees to lessen the downward pressure of the strings against the nut slots. This is to allow the strings to move more easily back and forth through the nut. I didn't want to space the trees higher, so I just moved them both further away from the nut, which decreased the break angle and still lessened the string tension at the nut. If you are playing a chord and use the tremolo, your fingers all move back and forth with the strings when you use the tremolo, as the strings move back and forth through the nut slots. I also have the correct nut files and made sure none of the strings bind in the nut. There is the possibility of increased wearing of the nut slots by the strings sawing the nut material when they are allowed to move so freely back and forth, however there is less tension at the same time, which decreases that wear. So, there's that whole conundrum to ponder. The Mag-Lock brings the tremolo back to the same place every time and still allows for a full floating tremolo. The combo of the Mag-Lock, the non-binding string/nut work, and the lessened string pressure at the nut, all work together to allow this guitar to stay in tune better than any of my other guitars that have full floating tremolos, with or without locking nuts. So, I have a 1 guitar proof that the locking nut is not necessary in all setups. I have the Bladerunner, stock fender style tremolos, Floyd Rose tremolos and a Bigsby style tremolo. The Bigsby style tremolo comes in as the next best for coming back to tune, without any other devices or limiters. But it is not full floating. It is dive only, by design. Most tremolos that are limited to a diving direction only, will be better at returning to an in-tune position, as it has a solid stop position that the springs will always return the tremolo to. That's my two penny observations for the day. Best to you all.
By the way, Jake, your links are backwards.
May have been the missing string retainer?
I actually removed it! I installed it thinking it would help, but it actually made the tuning problems way worse!
Maybe a locking nut? Don't they normally use locking nuts with a Floyd Rose? I'm not an expert at all so this is a legitimate question, not trolling you pardner.
He then would be required to unlock the nut every time it needed to be tuned.
Not necessarily a deal breaker but not quite efficient.
@mykuntstynx9463 Not sure about it at all, just every time I see a guitar that has a Floyd Rose, it usually has a locking nut. Must be a reason for it. Jake knows more about Floyd Rose's than anyone I've ever seen. He almost always uses them.
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Personally, I'd rather have the locking nut.
Even if I had to unlock it all the time.
But I don't play out.
I don't have an audience waiting for me to unlock my nut (lol), tune back up, lock it back down...
My cats don't mind waiting tho ...