Zero Glide Nuts, and review.

Sounds good Doc. I'm tempted to try the zero fret system myself

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Having had the two Zero Glide Nuts installed on my SG and LP Studio for a few days, I've been noticing a couple of issues with these nuts, firstly the tuning of my guitars has started to get a bit unstable due to friction, I've tried putting some Big Bends Nut Sauce lubricant in the nut slots and on the zero fret which helped a little bit but didn't cure the friction problem completely , secondly, the zero-fret on the SG has ended up with some grooves worn into them from the string-tension, I was giving each of the strings on my SG a good stretch when the D-String broke and I found that I had no spare sets of strings, so, I've decided to leave the SG un-strung for the time being.

sounds like they live up to their name and have zero glide...

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Originally Posted by DrNomis_44

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I haven't really been too thrilled with the quality of the set of 3-A-Side Kluson Grover Deluxe Tuners I recently bought from Stewmac, some of them exhibited some backlash which made it hard to tune some of the strings on my LP Studio accurately to pitch, so, while I was at the Top end sounds Pro Shop buying some strings, I decided to buy a new set of Chrome Grover Rotomatics to put on the LP Studio, before i put them on I checked them al and they were all good, the new Grover Rotomatics have an 18:1 gear ratio and they definitely feel alot smoother than the Kluson Grover Deluxes, the LP Studio has the correct gauge strings on it so I'll record record a demo for you a bit later on so stay tuned.

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Let Stewiemac know that you are not happy with the tuners.
I have found them to be excellent with this sort of thing and they will stand behind their products.

Grooves already?
Sounds like they need to switch to stainless fret to cure that and the friction problem.

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Originally Posted by dingobass

Grooves already?
Sounds like they need to switch to stainless fret to cure that and the friction problem.

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My thoughts exactly, I think half the friction problem is caused by the Back-Angle of the headstock on my LP Studio and SG, these Zero Glide nuts are probably more suited to guitars with headstocks set at more gentle angles, like Acoustic guitars.

I've ended up removing the Zero-Glide nut from my LP Studio because I was having too much trouble keeping the guitar in tune, even tried applying some Big Bends Nut sauce lubricant to the nut slots and zero-fret, made no difference.


Sorry Stewmac, Sorry Gold Tone, these Zero-Glide nuts didn't work for me.

Oh man, what a f*** around. I hope you figure it out soon Doc.

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Originally Posted by pablopepper

Oh man, what a f*** around. I hope you figure it out soon Doc.

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Cheers mate, yeah I've been having a real rough time with my guitars not wanting to stay in tune, I got so frustrated about it I was seriously thinking of giving myself a good long break from doing anything musical last night, I wasn't in the best of moods at all.

Those Zero Glide Nuts cost me almost $50.00 each, not to mention probably about 4 or 5 hours of my time just to file/sand them down to fit, I don't think I'll buy any more of them, a pity because I was thinking of buying one to go with the strat kit I was planning on buying soon, it's actually getting harder for me to justify spending money on the guitars I own, considering I'm not that well off.

I guess all I can do now is chalk it down to experience.

Gee Doc, that really does sux...
Send Stewmac an email with your observations, I have a feeling we will be seeing these zero nuts in the close out section before too long....