Zero Glide Nuts, and review.

[andrewdosborne]

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

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[DrNomis_44]

Update:


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.

[stan]

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

[dingobass]

Update:


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.

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.

[dingobass]

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

[DrNomis_44]

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

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.

[DrNomis_44]

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.

[pablopepper]

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

[DrNomis_44]

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

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.

[dingobass]

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....