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Jim Pitman

 

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Waterbury Ctr. VT 05677 USA
Post  Posted 8 Mar 2010 1:00 pm    
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Anyone heard of such a thing?
I'm not talking about locking tuners as I don't feel their is much of an advantage. A locking nut actually shortens string length possibly eliminating tuning hysteresis due to string length beyond nut. And like it's counterpart, the keyless tuner, it results in less pull travel, yet you could add it to a conventionally keyed guitar.
A friend of mine made one for his Emmons once and it worked quite well but never produced any for other guitars.
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chas smith R.I.P.


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Encino, CA, USA
Post  Posted 8 Mar 2010 2:51 pm    
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This goes back to the mid 90's when I rebuilt this guitar and it's only for strings 5 and 6.


You can't really see it in this pic.
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Dave Zirbel


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Sebastopol, CA USA
Post  Posted 8 Mar 2010 6:26 pm    
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I've been thinking about this too for a few years. I think it would be great on my ZB.
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Jim Pitman

 

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Waterbury Ctr. VT 05677 USA
Post  Posted 8 Mar 2010 7:13 pm    
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Chas was it effective?
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chas smith R.I.P.


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Post  Posted 8 Mar 2010 9:21 pm    
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Jim, I think so. As I'm sure you know, the 5 and 6 strings are the longest, from the nut to the tuning key, and the 5, in particular, has to pull up a major 2nd which means that both sides of the nut get a good stretch and both sides have to return to "zero". I wanted to minimize the pedal travel and "shortening" the string seemed like a good idea. It also means that there's a better chance of the string returning to being in tune, although no one has ever accused me of playing in tune.
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Jim Pitman

 

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Waterbury Ctr. VT 05677 USA
Post  Posted 9 Mar 2010 10:29 am    
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Funny! Thanks.
To me your soultion looks simple but effective - perfect.
Any down side?
Perhaps when you lock it down it would slighty alter the pitch requiring itteration?
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