{"id":176,"date":"2016-02-25T15:56:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T15:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevmcgill.co.uk\/projects\/?p=176"},"modified":"2018-02-12T17:05:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T17:05:29","slug":"overlord-of-music-headless-locking-nut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kevmcgill.co.uk\/projects\/useful-information\/overlord-of-music-headless-locking-nut\/","title":{"rendered":"“Overlord of Music” Headless Locking Nut"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, a word about the ‘Overlord Of Music’ brand locking nut for the Headless Guitar Kit (GK-SHS-40) that’s available for many in the UK and beyond<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The bridge is a ‘knock-off’ version of the Steinberger ‘R-Trem’, and it’s perfectly able and usable. I’ve been most impressed with it. However, the locking nut seems to be a different kettle of fish, and it took me a while to figure it out.<\/p>\n

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To make the guitar compatible with normal single-ball-end strings, ‘Overlord of Music’ have incorporated an ingenious system to keep the strings secure and in tune. Now, as there’s a normal type of locking nut used, it’s not quite strong enough to keep the ‘high e’ string in tune on it’s own – it slips and detunes far too easily. So, in the nut unit, there’s a series of small holes that you run each string through, before then tightening each with the grub screws on the end of the unit. It effectively clamps each string down – at right angles – through the end of the unit. The locking nut then does the rest of the load-bearing work.<\/p>\n

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Here you can see the string holes arrowed, with the grub screws clearly evident.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a>\"\"\u00a0 <\/a>\"\" <\/a>\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So, string goes over top nut, through hole, clamped with the grub screw, then string tuned. Then, and only then, are the locking nut clamps fastened and final tune-up performed.<\/p>\n

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Et voila! A very very cheap, yet perfectly usable floating, locking (DOUBLE locking!) tremolo system!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, a word about the ‘Overlord Of Music’ brand locking nut for the Headless Guitar Kit (GK-SHS-40) that’s available for many in the UK and beyond:   The bridge is a ‘knock-off’ version of the Steinberger ‘R-Trem’, and it’s perfectly able and usable. I’ve been most impressed with it. However, the locking nut seems to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[8,9,11,12,6,10,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevmcgill.co.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevmcgill.co.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevmcgill.co.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevmcgill.co.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevmcgill.co.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/kevmcgill.co.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"http:\/\/kevmcgill.co.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevmcgill.co.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevmcgill.co.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevmcgill.co.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}