Floyd and Locking

Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 4912 Location: Brooklyn, NY

Now, I've owned many floyds over the years but have never thought to combine a regular guitar with locking tuners and a TUSQ nut with a floyd. Do you guys think the locking tuners work as well as a floyd nut?

Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 2740 Location: Southeast MI

They may work decently enough, but not as good as the locking nut I'd think.

Joined: 04 Jun 2012 Posts: 347 Location: South-West Ohio

GuitarGoat wrote:

They may work decently enough, but not as good as the locking nut I'd think.

I concur.

Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 1487 Location: Atlanta, GA

There is a video on YouTube about this when Gibson released their floyded explorer and v that did not have locking nuts. Any guitar that has an angled headstock will flex when you pull up on the bar.

I found the video of the Kahler explorer

http://youtu.be/bS3AJuRl5F4

Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 13396 Location: Earth

Suhr does this... Well they offer you a choice. The guitar will have a locking nut and locking tuners so you dont have to use the locking nut blocks if you don't want.

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 7:29 pm

Depending on the HS angle + string angle between the nut and tuners...,

the strings could move and / or bind.

Locking nut would be best IMHO.

Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 4912 Location: Brooklyn, NY

Thanks for the replies guys. I always feared the headstock getting all weird with that sort of set up...

I'm considering my next guitar ahead of time and I was thinking about getting a stop tail BC Rich Mockingbird and throwing a Kahler on there (completely floydless these days).