sexy looking neck Cascadia, love the gold frets, locking nut and tuners. Never heard of staggered tuner post heights, I'll be interested to see if they don't need string trees
sexy looking neck Cascadia, love the gold frets, locking nut and tuners. Never heard of staggered tuner post heights, I'll be interested to see if they don't need string trees
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Originally Posted by wokkaboy
I've got a set of six gold Sperzel Locking-tuners on the neck for my Gold Strat, they have staggered-height posts on them, and yes, they do eliminate the need for string trees, the heights of the posts are staggered so that the low E and A string tuners have the highest posts, the D and G string tuners have posts with heights lower than the low E and A tuners, and the tuners for the B and high E-strings have posts with the lowest heights, this ensures a proper break-angle over the nut without the need for string trees, this goes some way to eliminating tuning stability problems due to friction in the nut slots, and also helps the B and high E-strings to ring cleanly without sitar-buzzing.
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