Dan Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 Today i was in a trade in shop ( or pawn shop for Americans ) and i saw what i think was a Marlin strat and it had the normal nut, but just a bit up was a locking nut. It had a locking tremolo at the bottom. I tried it out and it worked. No problems at all. Has anyone else ever seen anything like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Rosenberger Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 Alot of the Japanese Fender Strats from the 80's had this as well. It works fine but just looks ugly IMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 Pretty common here in the states. Schecter also had the "behind the nut" locking nut. Kahler had a few. Usually if you decide to take off the locking part, all you have are a couple of screw holes in the neck showing, which could be filled. When it's behind the actual nut, it's really just a string clamp and not working as the nut. I'd love to find one of the schecter ones and take that damn thing off and have a great strat-type neck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEdwardJones Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 Pretty common here in the states. Schecter also had the "behind the nut" locking nut. Kahler had a few. I own two of these. Work perfectly fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pushead Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 Yeah, the 84/85 Gibson guitars that had factory Kahler trems did this. It's too bad the Kahler doesn't catch on. I perfer the less routing involved, even though you can't bend it up as high. But I don't use whammy bridges often, so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AlexVDL Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 I had a gibson once which had a schaller floyd and a locking nut behind the normal nut. But it didn't work out for me. When I do my satriani or vai divebombs the strings would pop out of the normal nut. They came back in position tho, but the whole guitar was detuned I prefer just a locking nut without a normal nut in front of it. This way you get less friction so less detuning. I had a guitar with a zero fret once and that one worked very well!! I must say it sounds better than any nut! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEdwardJones Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 The locking nut behind the regular nut is how my first two "real" guitars came equipped. I have a slight preference for them and here's why. I have big hands and I tend to play with my hand angled so that my finger tips are pointing away from the nut. Usually this isn't a proble, but with a typical Floyd nut what ends up happening is if I do a run in the first position (Queensryche's "I Don't Believe in Love" solo comes to mind) I gouge my fingers on the locking nut. It's about as fun as it sounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 I have an old Rockinger locking trem that has one of these behind the nut things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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