Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame Posted October 5, 2014 Posted October 5, 2014 This guitar has a roller nut, but the trem probably still won't stay in tune because the strings change direction at the string bar, meaning there will be tension/binding at that point that will keep it from returning to pitch. Right?
carfish7 Posted October 5, 2014 Posted October 5, 2014 That does not look like a roller nut to me - it appears to be a Floyd nut sans locking pads.
Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame Posted October 5, 2014 Author Posted October 5, 2014 That does not look like a roller nut to me - it appears to be a Floyd nut sans locking pads.Hm...you're right.Okay, so let's say it WAS a roller nut...it wouldn't work, right?
carfish7 Posted October 5, 2014 Posted October 5, 2014 It would not be ideal - especially with that string retainer pushing down and creating friction.
Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame Posted October 5, 2014 Author Posted October 5, 2014 Basically, I'm trying to convert a guitar with a 2-point non-locking trem and traditional nut to a Floyd Rose double-locking system. If it had the straight string run, I might go with a roller nut or graphite nut w/ locking tuners. However, the guitar I have has the same string travel (spread path) as the one in the picture.So I'm going to have to find some way to lock the strings.Since I don't really want to try to replace the nut, that is probably going to have to be behind-the-nut locks.Unless anyone has a better idea?
Feynman Posted October 6, 2014 Posted October 6, 2014 Unless anyone has a better idea?Leave it alone and play one of your thirty locking trem guitars when you need that arrangement?
Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame Posted October 6, 2014 Author Posted October 6, 2014 Unless anyone has a better idea?Leave it alone and play one of your thirty locking trem guitars when you need that arrangement?That is an option, and an attractive one.This guitar is a crap guitar that I want to learn to work on, to take it from crap to AWESOME.If I can.
jaberwock Posted October 6, 2014 Posted October 6, 2014 Just an idea; if you got a second hand Fender LSR nut, the one with ball bearings, and widened the string exit channels with a Dremel so as to accommodate the string spread, it might work; seems they only come in 1-11/16 nut width though.
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This guitar has a roller nut, but the trem probably still won't stay in tune because the strings change direction at the string bar, meaning there will be tension/binding at that point that will keep it from returning to pitch.
Right?
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