OG Floyd Rose R2 nut to Gotoh swap?

Christopher Caruana

Christopher Caruana

New member
My Wolfgang has an OG floyd R2 nut and I was looking into swapping it out for a gotoh. I heard its much higher quality because I'm having trouble right now with the high E and B strings wearing grooves in the nut slots.

My questions is, will the gotoh 41mm nut directly drop into the R2 nut? I looked up the specs, and the only thing I see different is the gotoh is a little wider E - E spread. Is the radius still 10"?
Any other suggestions welcome :cool2:

-CC
 
Re: OG Floyd Rose R2 nut to Gotoh swap?

Nope. The narrow Gotoh nut has a 360mm radius, which translates to 14,2".
 
Re: OG Floyd Rose R2 nut to Gotoh swap?

I'm still somewhat intrigued, no, actually I am all out wtf about your misadventure. I've seen a couple worn locking nuts and plenty that were still in great shape after decades of service. I mean, come on, even crapissimo plastic nuts don't usually wear out in less than 2 years. Wanna share a picture?
 
Re: OG Floyd Rose R2 nut to Gotoh swap?

Well there isn't full on grooves yet, but there are the beginnings of a groove starting to cut into the nut.

What about schaller? are they higher quality?
 
Re: OG Floyd Rose R2 nut to Gotoh swap?

Christopher Caruana said:
My Wolfgang has an OG floyd R2 nut and I was looking into swapping it out for a gotoh. I heard its much higher quality because I'm having trouble right now with the high E and B strings wearing grooves in the nut slots.

My questions is, will the gotoh 41mm nut directly drop into the R2 nut? I looked up the specs, and the only thing I see different is the gotoh is a little wider E - E spread. Is the radius still 10"?
Any other suggestions welcome :cool2:

-CC
Click to expand...

IMHO both schaller and Gotoh suck in the locking nuts department. But the problem is that the rest of cheapo locking nuts suck even more. I had a Schaller R3 nut which gave a horrible open G muffled sitar tone that was killing the sustain on all natural harmonics on G (majority of the most popular natural harmonics). After great pain and several accidents, trying chinese exotic nuts, breaking screws into the wood and trying to extract them, plugging dowels, glueing wooden shims, drilling for the new Gotoh nut (FGR-2), re-adjusting height, finally I managed to have a decent nut with a very nice sounding open G. The guitar surely could scream open natural harmonics with the new nut.Or so I thought. Cause now it was open B which was suffering badly. Instead of keep on swapping nuts to eternity, I decided to just fix this one. (with paper and super glue, proved much better than any alternative i tried : metal putty, aluminum) (much easier fix than installing a new identical one or even worse change model and brand entirely)

Full story here : https://forum.seymourduncan.com/sho...en-b-string-buzz-bizzare-cause-of-the-problem

Just remember : *Not* all muffling and buzzing comes from the nut. Some parts of your bridge could be loose and ratling. Learn to identify the different types of buzzing or muffling or just dead tone. After each step measure the improvement. Measure sustain on open notes. Pay attention to both up-picking and down-picking, you might see it makes a huge difference. You have to have both up/down picking sound right.
 
Re: OG Floyd Rose R2 nut to Gotoh swap?

Chris, if you're talking about the plating getting stripped along the strings' path, then it's nothing to worry about. Perhaps I am lucky finding locking nut problems rare.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

S
Original Floyd Rose locking nut- is this correct?
Replies
15
Views
775
Chris Pile
Chris Pile
Frogman
What next with this Floyd (Gotoh)?
2
Replies
21
Views
2K
Top-L
T
I
Possibility of 8 string with high A and Floyd Rose bridge
2
Replies
34
Views
1K
Inflames626
I
I
Locking nut quality and tuning stability
2 3 4
Replies
73
Views
4K
Mincer
Mincer
I
Mixing OFR, Schaller, and Gotoh parts--does it work?
Replies
6
Views
1K
alex1fly
alex1fly
Back
Top