If you’re looking for a new guitar, you’ve probably seen options with locking nuts and others with locking tuners and wondered which is better. Whether you should choose a locking nut or locking tuner depends on the kind of music you play, how much and how vigorously you use a guitar’s tremolo system, and how …
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If you have a guitar with a locking tremolo system you find yourself not liking very much, you might wonder whether you can remove a locking nut from a guitar and replace it with a regular nut. You can remove a locking nut from a guitar, but there are some complications. First, a locking nut …
We’ve already talked about what a locking nut does for a guitar and what kinds of guitars they can be installed on, but if you’ve got one, you might want to know how to tune a guitar with a locking nut. Tuning a guitar with a locking nut is a more involved process than tuning …
If you’ve heard about locking nuts and how they help with tuning stability, you might have wondered whether you could install one. So can you put a locking nut on any guitar? You can only use a locking nut in conjunction with a locking tremolo system, and the installation of both requires major modifications to …
If you’ve looked into guitars with tremolo systems, you might have heard about a locking nut and wondered what that is. So what exactly is a locking nut for a guitar? A locking nut, which is just one part of a larger tremolo system, clamps a guitar’s strings in place at the nut. Used in …
