Sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don't...

[aarontunes]

Floyd Rose nut options, that is:

 

[VanHeGen]

Is there any other part of a guitar that has as many jokes associated with it as the nut?

 

[aarontunes]

Is there any other part of a guitar that has as many jokes associated with it as the nut?

Low hanging fruit.

Come up with a joke about paper-in-oil capacitors. Then you'll know you've really got something.

 

[VanHeGen]

Great video, but the whole locking nut radius complexity is still somewhat mindblowing. So, all the OFR nuts have a 10” radius, but the FR 1000 R3 nut is 12”. And then Schaller (who manufactures the OFR’s) sells R2 and R3 nuts with the following radiuses: 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16”!

 

[TBurst Std]

Low hanging fruit.

Come up with a joke about paper-in-oil capacitors. Then you'll know you've really got something.

Don’t start me on what a PIA PIO are.
It’s funnier if you use a loose Spanish translation on the vocal aspects.

 

[Rick]

If you did come up with such a joke you'd BEE BUMBLin' into it.





Arent' Bumblebee capacitiors paper in oil?

 

[Jebberz]

Is there any other part of a guitar that has as many jokes associated with it as the nut?

Maybe the G String?

 

[aarontunes]

Great video, but the whole locking nut radius complexity is still somewhat mindblowing. So, all the OFR nuts have a 10” radius, but the FR 1000 R3 nut is 12”. And then Schaller (who manufactures the OFR’s) sells R2 and R3 nuts with the following radiuses: 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16”!

Ya, it's confusing.

I'm not so sure about the FR 1000 R3 being 12". I know that FR themselves have published that in various places, but in others I've seen 10".

So....ya.....it's confusing.

 

[aarontunes]

Maybe the G String?

Nailed it!

 

[stratamania]

So, all the OFR nuts have a 10” radius, but the FR 1000 R3 nut is 12”.

FR1000 products are not part of the original series made in Germany, but rather they are made in Korea. The original R3 is 10"

RAnd then Schaller (who manufactures the OFR’s) sells R2 and R3 nuts with the following radiuses: 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16”!

That is a relatively recent thing which probably accounts for the radius on new FR nuts made by Schaller being marked on the nut, see link below.

Original Locking Nut Markings (2023)

As of late 2022, the Floyd Rose factory in Germany has changed the markings on our Original Series locking nuts. The parts will now only detail the locking nut size (R2, R3, etc.) and the radius on the underside of the nut. If you receive a Floyd Rose Original locking nut in our genuine...

www.floydrose.com

 

[VanHeGen]

Ya, it's confusing.

I'm not so sure about the FR 1000 R3 being 12". I know that FR themselves have published that in various places, but in others I've seen 10".

So....ya.....it's confusing.

For the sake of science I have actually purchased 3 locking nuts (R3 size) for my upcoming guitar

• OFR 10”
• FR 1000 12”
• Schaller 12”

and I’ll let my guitar luthier try them all on the guitar neck and tell me if there is any difference.

The FR1000 R3 seems slightly taller when I tried to measure it, but I don’t have the means to say for sure. The package says it is 12” and the Floyd Rose web site claims that too
https://www.floydrose.com/products/1000-series-special-locking-nut-2?variant=31372832964717

 

[Jeremiah]

Is there any other part of a guitar that has as many jokes associated with it as the nut?

Maybe knobs? But I think that's mostly UK slang.

 

[TBurst Std]

Beat this:
F holes

Mic drop

 

[Spud]

Machine head

 

[bagman67]

Ball end?

 

[VanHeGen]

Hard vs soft wood?

 

[stratamania]

With humour like this, I think it's apparently "tru" that you all need to go and oil your neck shafts.

 

[Spud]

I personally insist on a clean input jack.

 

[bagman67]

I personally insist on a clean input jack.

Which gives rise to the usual debate about whether it's an INPUT jack or an OUTPUT jack, with concomitant potential for crass innuendoes.

Not that I would ever engage in that sort of behavior.

 

[Spud]

Inlays..................................on and on it goes, what a sexy instrument