haroldovic Posted February 5, 2009 Report Share Posted February 5, 2009 my m8 and i r doing up his 79 gibson sg, its an amazing guitar, but has tuning problems. We r considering putting a locking nut on it, not a trem just the nut. anybody know if A this is a gd idea, and B will it work or will it just go out of tune as it does not av a floating trem. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihocky2 Posted February 5, 2009 Report Share Posted February 5, 2009 It won't work. Unless you have a bridge with fine tuners on it, you'll never be able to tune it. With locking nuts, you tune to pitch and then lock down the clamps which brings the strings sharp. Without fine tuners, you can't readjust the tuning. Plus if you playing live, with fine tuners on a bridge, you have to unlock the strings re-tune and then re-lock them. Not something you can do between songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted February 5, 2009 Report Share Posted February 5, 2009 79 SG.... practically vintage now so dont go changing to much! its worth getting the nut and tunerrs checked out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted February 5, 2009 Report Share Posted February 5, 2009 whoops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAI6 Posted February 5, 2009 Report Share Posted February 5, 2009 79 SG.... practically vintage now so dont go changing to much! its worth getting the nut and tunerrs checked out Exactly. Figure out why it's not staying in tune, and fix that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted February 5, 2009 Report Share Posted February 5, 2009 You'll probably get there by either properly lubing the string slots in the nut (by 'properly' I don't mean hose it down with lube, I mean just a dab of the right kind of lube), or replacing the nut with something like stewmac's 'slipstone'. And there's the fine art of rounding over areas in the string slots, but you have to know what parts you can get away with rounding and which parts you can't. After doing that, and still having tuning problems, the next thing would be the tuning machines. (unless it happens to have a loose neck joint) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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