Topic: Locking Guitar Nuts:
I noticed Olly recently stated that his electric has a lockable nut, which set me to wondering if they are possibly more common in some countries rather than others..I remember in the mid 90's they were all the rage here on new models, with most electric brands featuring at least one or two guitars which had lockable nuts, and in principal the concept seemed a great idea. While I never owned one, the feed-back I got from students was that they worked as they were designed to do, but in practice in most cases still didn't hold a tuning properly, and made changing a set of strings, something which many busy guitarists do every week or two, a major undertaking. Most students who had them ended up taking them off and throwing them away.
Since the late '90's, they have not appeared in any wholesalers product listing I have seen here, and of the fifty or so students guitars I have seen every week since then I've never seen a one...neither have I seen them in stock in any music store..in fact, I had forgotten they existed until Olly's comment.
Are they still in use in the UK?
