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Göldo Zero Glide ZGZS3 Nut

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Nut

  • Pre-lotted in Martin Style
  • With the Zero Glide nut one can provide any guitar with a zero fret and its corresponding advantages without major remodelling
  • Improved playability
  • Improved tuning stability
  • Open and fretted strings sound the same
  • Dimensions: Overall length: 44.7 mm (1-3 / 4"), String spacing (outer strings): 34.5 mm (1-3 / 8") Height at the edge: 11.3 mm (7 / 16"), Height at the center: 11.9 mm ( 15 / 32"), Width: 5.9 mm (15 / 64"), Radius: 406 mm (16")
Available since July 2013
Item number 313544
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Width in mm 45 mm
Unmachined No
Instrument Estilo Martin
466 kr
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(wow) upgrade for archtop
rbbrnck 03.04.2021
fits Ibanez AG95 like a glove, and has turned this mid-price archtop into a truly superior, higher-grade instrument, with an intonation that is now spot-on, fully-exact, across the whole fretboard – any string, any fret.
tuning machines now perform significantly smoother, and even with the quite steep offset angle of the guitar's two center strings D and G (due to the styling of the guitar's headstock), the friction's now gone, too, which makes tuning a much faster, simpler, easier process.
the original nut that came with the guitar was definitely its less-worthy part, actually a hastily-cut and unevenly-filed piece (and of cheap plastic, too), so it left plenty of room for improvement anyway.
now, not only size and geometry are exactly correct, but the Zero Glide nut and fret have graced the instrument, and brought it closer to instruments with a cost factor of x-times, in terms of tone and playability, too.
sustain has greatly improved, and with the zero-fret concept implemented here, the output level of each string is now perfectly even, smoothly balanced against all others' – and this happens when playing acoustic-only (unplugged), too!
the added benefit of having the same tonal response at each string –regardless of it being either plucked open, or fretted – is a luxury that leads to exploring voicings you wouldn't really try on any "standard nut" guitar, to a certain extent.
i'm not a professional luthier, i've had no formal training on the matter, and ideally i would have preferred to have the Zero Glide nut kit installed by a trusted luthier – despite the moderate price of the guitar itself – in return of the piece of mind that anything had been done properly... but with COVID-19 came the lockdown, which made luthier unreachable, so i had to do the job myself, with what few tools i own, and without much previous experience on this type of things.
i could only do it slowly, with an utterly careful attention, measuring almost after each stroke on sand paper or file, until both nut and fret were finally sized right – so right, actually, that it now fits snug, and keeps itself in place, without even a drop of glue under it... i took indeed my time, while luthier would have been blazing fast in comparison, and would have made the job look like it had always been there, like it was factory-installed from the start... let's be fair, my execution is a bit crude, without the shine (and smooth-to-the-touch feeling) of a thick glossy coat that i couldn't apply where it connects to the neck's finish... but the job turned out to be easy to figure and carry out, and the result is a game-changer for what is now a guitar on par with ones of three or four orders of magnitude in price.
to make matters even more perfect, though, there's an extra bit that Musikhaus Thomann should definitely add to its offer, as an extra item to be bought on the side: it's the selection of (these very) "Zero Glide frets" in stainless steel that the manufacturer offers on its website.
why you want them, too, is easy to explain: stringing and restringing, tuning and retuning, in the (not so very) long run, cuts a groove under each string on the zero fret that grows from microscopic at first, to tiny after some time, which may spoil the fun-factor when doing "bendings".
stainless steel fretwire doesn't suffer from this otherwise perfectly typical kind of wear, so it would make sense that it was available for shopping here, too.
all in all, it's a piece of superb ingenuity and simplicity, one that can boost the actual performance of your instrument, and make it so much more fun to play, tone- and touch- and tune-wise, at a price that's almost gifted – against the benefit it returns.
highly recommended – and i'm about to install it on other guitars, both solid- and hollow-bodied, too.
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Eine Bereicherung für jede Gitarre
Vandraren 01.05.2020
Der Einbau war ganz einfach, ein bisschen abfeilen und kürzen und schon passte der Sattel perfekt. Ich habe ihn an meiner Hoyer M3 Akustikgitarre angebracht und bin sehr zufrieden. Sound und Sustain haben sich vor allem in den hohen Saiten verbessert.
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Lohnt sich!
Thomas6647 07.09.2015
Im Überblick: das Paket ist prima, es gibt verschiedene Bundstäbchen, die je nach Gitarre/Vorgabe entsprechend einsetzbar sind und es gibt Anleitungen im Netz.
Ganz so einfach, wie bereits Gerd7364 den Prozess beschrieben hat, fand ich es aber leider nicht. Das klappt, wenn sich die alten Teile gut ablösen, das neue Teil den bisherigen Maßen sehr nahe kommt usw. Ist das nicht der Fall, wird es kniffliger, wenn man nichts am Griffbrett kaputt machen möchte. Außerdem muss man zur Anpassung ggf. nicht nur in der Höhe einen Abtrag vornehmen (Feilen), sondern auch in der Breite. Man sollte da schon etwas Übung mit der Feile haben und auch immer wieder nachmessen (Schieblehre!), damit nicht plötzlich zu viel oder schief weggeschliffen wurde. Auch muss der seitliche Abstand in der Breite oben und unten gleich sein, damit die Saiten sauber drüber laufen. Vergessen darf man auch nicht, dass das Bundstäbchen entsprechend der Halsbreite gekürzt werden muss, an dern Kanten abgerundet - sprich: gefeilt - werden muss. Und es muss entsprechender Klebstoff besorgt werden.
Also ehrlich: ohne handwerkliches Geschick vielleicht besser jemand anderes machen lassen.
Das Ergebnis dieser Aufwertung ist allerdings wirklich erstaunlich!
5 Sterne, weil das Ergebnis überzeugt. Aber es sollte in der Produktbeschreibung auf die benötigte handwerkliche Leistung aufmerksam gemacht werden.
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Attaque d'enfer .
kidgerman 17.01.2020
Avec l'installation de cet accessoire je retrouve l'attaque et la définition des notes de mon Epiphone acoustique FT150 bard 1970 made in Japan. J'y jouais ce que je voulais . C'était ce que l'on appelle, un manche zéro fret. J'ai posé ce sillet sur ma guitare acoustique du moment , et je retrouve le même miracle (?!! )
Il serait bien que les manufactures de guitares se remettent à fabriquer des manches zéro fret pour acoustiques et électriques.(Brian May)
En attendant, je vais devoir en commander un autre pour adapter sur mon électrique.
Attention ! Pour l'installation de ce binz , luthier du dimanche s'abstenir...
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