Do You Need a Locking Nut With a Floyd Rose?
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Strat Avenger
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It would work just as well as it does with any other vibrato bridge.
JohnnyHardtail
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There is a Guthrie Govan signature Charvel that has this. Not sure which model Floyd trem, but I recall it is without the fine tuners.
stratamania
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The production ones use a proprietary model. The prototypes are based on the Floyd Rose Non-Fine Tuner.
Here is a build thread where I used that exact FR NFT, locking tuners and LSR nut.
Continuing on from the out of the box photos of the Another fine body... thread...found at the below link...
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After undergoing some emergency surgery just after Easter, I now have some time and regaining enough health to get this one started.
Another fine body...
Another fine body I unboxed today... metallic_black_cherry_3 by stratamania, on Flickr Thanks, Warmoth...great job. Difficult to capture a good photo with my phone...
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After undergoing some emergency surgery just after Easter, I now have some time and regaining enough health to get this one started.
Personally though, for any type of tremolo without locking nuts a straight in line headstock is a better option.
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A Floyd Rose is a whole system, and only works correctly when the whole system is used. Remove any component and the integrity of the system is compromised, and you're left with just a regular old, non-locking tremolo system.
The NFT Floyd that GG uses, or the Wilkenson with the locking saddles that Pete Thorn uses might stay in tune marginally better than a Gotoh 510, but only marginally. I promise you they won't stay "Steve Vai" in tune like a Floyd-style double-locking system does.
The NFT Floyd that GG uses, or the Wilkenson with the locking saddles that Pete Thorn uses might stay in tune marginally better than a Gotoh 510, but only marginally. I promise you they won't stay "Steve Vai" in tune like a Floyd-style double-locking system does.
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Although I do come remarkably close with the Ibanez FRG7620 in my avatar on the left.
Gotoh 1996-7 tremolo, Hipshot open gear locking tuners, and a Tusq nut with well polished slots. The trem posts have never been turned under tension, maintain a clean well lubricated pivot on the knife edges. I can pull the G thing up two whole steps, and I can dive bomb to dead slack and keep coming back to the zero position fully in tune. The only exception is the stretching of the strings, otherwise no other anomalies.
I have a Wilky with Schaller locking tuners that performs equally as well, but the knife edges on the VS50 are not at pronounced, so it doesn’t always return to zero unless managed into place with another quick little pitch dip. I’m confident that if I were to upgrade to a Gotoh 510, it would perform much better due to the better quality knife edges.
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