VOTE HERE: do your git'rs have a Zero fret?

shredd

I'm trying to get a grasp on how common this approach is; whether you've added it or your git'r came this way. I have a git'r that has low-fret tuning problems, and it's been suggested that this (http://www.monteallums.com/enut_tuning.html#ensupp) might help; the site sure sez so. What do YOU say???

LuredMaul

I say it's a dumb idea but I'm a Buzz Feiten tuning system authourized retrofitter so ......

http://www.buzzfeiten.com

shredd

\LuredMaul\ wrote:

I say it's a dumb idea but I'm a Buzz Feiten tuning system authourized retrofitter so .....

I don't get it...seems the B/F system has the same general objective as a zero-fret, but without a fret - an extended nut instead...how about a pro/con compare? 8)

Cobaltblooz

My Steinberger came with a zero fret

0Dannyboy

No zero fret on my fiddles, but ALL of them (SG standard, Variax and 160e acoustic) have EARVANNAs on them, Compensated Nuts are really the cats meow!
The buzz Fetten thing I didnt like the idea of there system as much as it seemed too much of a pain there if I had to use a diffrent tuner and such.
Earvanna is simple you just slap it on and Play. The Zero fret seems kinda cool...but a little too much to to install. I am definaltley not fileing my Gibson for a Zero fret... My bound and blocked set mahagony neck is not going under the knife :shock: :roll:

I bet its really kool though. let us know if you end up using it.

shredd

I have a zero-fret kit (http://www.monteallums.com/enut_tuning.html#ensupp) on order for the 'binez. No modificaton necessary; we'll see if it works. Stand by...

cyclonic

how far out of whack does a guitar have to be to deserve a zero fret?? :? :shock:

i have heard guitars that had issues because the frets were slotted a wee bit off.I have seen guitars that have tuna-matics that lack enough room for adjustment(go out of range)

I use a peterson strobo flip for setting intonation ,but use the guitar \"sweetener\" setting for tuning .I have yet had a guitar that couldn't be cured by it.....and i have over 40 :?

I gotta be missing something

shredd

Well, I don't know that THIS git'r 'deserves' a zero fret...but I gotta do SOMEthing to make it sound good. I'd rather take it to a good git'r mechanic/luthier and get it straightened out, but there isn't one within 500 miles of me. :?

Cobaltblooz

Then box it up, and send it to Lured Maul...

shredd

This just in...a special report from Chest Brockwell, direct from our shredd bureau... :roll:

I didn't put the graphite nut on the Dean acous/elec; it already has a nice bone nut on it. But I did do the zero-fret mod, which thankfully is totally reversible and requires no alteration of the fiddle.

The jury's still out, but after putting it in, setting it up, and playing for a half hour, I gotta say the git'r sounds terrific. It stays in tune and I can go from open chords to bar chords to strange-a$$ voicings, and it all sounds good.

Now...we'll see what the luthier can do with my 'binez...might have a Jackson for sale soon! 8)