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SETTING A LOCKING NUT’S HEIGHT

The locking nut is integral to the high performance tremolo system – it removes the non playing part of each string from the equation by locking it down. This Floyd Rose one is the most commonplace but it’s also quite common to see the nut height set wrong – often by the factory. We figure it must be too fiddly for the regular assembly line to get it right each time so they err on the high side each time.

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