AcornHouse
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adorshki
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Anybody besides me notice the TRC in post #16 is triangular?
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I think at some point they either ran out of just converted them all to simple (cheap) covers. My other Aviator guitars all have very simple plain covers. It's hard to see on this black headstock, but it's basically a very thin piece of trapezoidal plastic. It's not at all like the others that are more like pick guard material.
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thought those were designed like that to accommodate the lock nuts...or not.
The Guilds of Grot
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They were designed for "parallel" headstocks!
adorshki
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OK ya got me. What's a parallel headstock?
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My guess would be one with no break angle. The X73 has a pretty severe angle in relation to the fretboard, while the S70 one shown is more or less parallel to the fretboard.
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The lock by the nut is for the Kahler to make it double-locking for tuning stability, but yeah, there's not a lot of room under the strings.
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txbumper57
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My early run Aviator has the same triangular shaped thin plastic truss rod cover and mine also has the string locks at the nut as well. It is all factory hardware and trimmings as I am the first owner and bought it NOS with the original strings, hang tags, case, and clear plastic film still on the pickguard.
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The Guilds of Grot
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When the "Dive-Bomb" tremolos came out they would knock the guitar out of tune. So they put locking nuts on the neck and fine tuners on the tremolo.
The locking nuts are a pain to change strings, so the next step was locking tuners like Sperzel.
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If you're not using the trem you can have it blocked and switch out the lock nut for a standard nut of your choice...guitar will play fine...easy to change out a string when necessary...and you still have the fine tuners at the bridge end...come in handy sometimes...had the Setzer bluesbird I used to have set up that way.
Note: if you have problems with the straight pull headstock due to your playing style after such a modification, you can always add string trees...like on a strat.
Note: if you have problems with the straight pull headstock due to your playing style after such a modification, you can always add string trees...like on a strat.
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Quantum Strummer
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Re. blocking Strat-type vibratos: having set up a bunch of "Strats" recently, I've found a stack of quarters wrapped in masking tape makes a great block. 
(Substitute a large-ish but not too thick coin for the quarters if you live outside North America.)
-Dave-
(Substitute a large-ish but not too thick coin for the quarters if you live outside North America.)-Dave-
adorshki
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THAT's the term I couldn't remember, thought that's what those were on the X79 at first.
YOU With a Setzer BB?
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