Fender/Wilkinson roller nut

[postaldude]

Hey everyone,

I am new on this forum as a member but i have been reading this forum for a while now.
Does anyone of you remember the old fender wilkinson roller nuts? there were 2 versions that looked slightly different but the both had the same rout.
Is anyone familiar with this nut? It is the predecessor of the lsr that came on the Stratocaster plus models.
I still have one of them and want to install them on a warmoth neck.
So my question is, will it fit on a neck that has the floyd rose nut prep?

here's a picture of it:

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc18/Fastocker/Wilky-nuts.jpg

 

[Funky Phil]

The problem is that the position of the end of the fingerboard (i.e. how far from the 1st fret) needs to be different for the Wlkinson nut than for the Floyd.
In fact this position is the same as for the LSR roller nut.
So you could go for the LSR option, and then remove material from behind the nut...

The LSR nut was introduced as a replacement/ improvement over the Wilkinson, which it most certainly is!

In the end, I would go with the LSR nut, or a normal nut made of a low friction material.

If you already havce the Floyd prepared neck, then you will have to remove some of the fretboard in the direction of the 1st fret.
This amount is the difference in size between a std nut and the LSR...anyone?

 

[postaldude]

Yes but i already have stratocaster pro with an LSR, I want the strat plus to remain what it is. I would have kept the original neck but it's to badly damaged.

Thank you for the advice :icon_thumright:, i am going for the LSR prep I guess it won't be to hard removing some wood behind the nut slot until it fits

 

[Cagey]

I'm confused as to what you have and what you want, but here's the situation.

A neck cut for a standard nut can be modified to use any of the "specialty" nuts like the LSR, Wilkinson or Floyd Rose pain in the ass. But, once they're cut for any of those, they're wrecked for anything else. The fulcrum points change, and you may also have holes in places that preclude drilling new holes for the changeover. You could also end up with wood missing in inconvenient places. That means tuning will be somewhere between problematic and impossible, at least for open chords. So, the long and short of it is that once you commit to a nut, it's "'til death to you part". If you can't live with it, it's time for a divorce. Get a new neck and cut it for the latest love of your life, nut-wise. You'll be much happier.