Can This Keep a Bigsby in Tune? – Guitar NutBuster Long-Term Update!
Keeping a Bigsby in tune? – This may be the impossible task!
For my long-term update on the NutBuster I thought I’d install it on a different style of guitar and give you my thoughts on this product after a few months..
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Originally posted by UClMRGR_QNw4Fm-3FGGyICdw at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbYRUhp1jlo
Love me a bigsby – for better or for worse!
Enjoy 🙂
I am a huge fan of Compton Bridges, gretsch rocking bridges and true arc bridges. They are essential for keeping a Biggby equipped guitar in tune when using the wiggle stick
You did not use the wiggle stick through the whole demo. I appreciate you doing the video, but you missed the point of the upgrades.
Do these nut busters come in gold too?
The bridge doesnt allow the strings to slide, watch the bridge as it flexs back and forth as the bigsby is moved.
Orrrr upgrade the nut, bridge, and tuners, thus solving the problem instead of bandaiding it.
What about play in the mounting posts of the tuneomatic bridge?
The nut buster looks horrendous on this style instrument. Absolutely incongruous.
Try eliminating all bushings, under the saddle and in the bigsby well-lubed, I haven't had a problem
I'd dump that Bigsby for a B6C and a roller saddle bridge, helps mine stay in tune.
I’ve had a Gretsch Streamliner for a little over a year now and have never had tuning problems ????♂️
Years ago on a strat, I had one of those nutbusters, but didnt know thats what it was called…but it was great at keeping in tune!
I have Bixbys on both my Gibson Epiphones; solid body, & hollow body. Love ‘em! Thanks for this video!
Thanks for this vid, it’s been great to summarise these issues into a concise 11 min link that I can flick to customers. I’m usually happy to explain but people sometimes have their egos bruised when we tell them that a more affordable guitar will have some limitations/ why the premium models are significantly more expensive.
I Love A Bigsby but not that model! Who ever came up with running strings under the bar! Got rid of mine!
Not to self invent a chord pedal to be used in conjunction with new digitaleffects bend bar! Will I ever get around to this? Should this come on a guitar or as thing you screw into your old bend bar socket linked with wifi to a seperate guiat amp from the one your playing on! So two amps good for solo improvisational performances, and writing alone, also good for really well learned parts in a band especially in a three piece band wonder if the police are getting back togeter maybe I'll get in touch with the guitarist!
NOTE TO SELF USING A BIGSBY TYPE BENDER ARM ATTACH GAMES CONSOL FIRE BUTTON AND A TRIGGER BUTTON BASED ON OLD JOY SICKFOR COMMODORE AMIGA, WITH TRIGGET BUTTONS FOR EVERY FINGER!
Wow that's amazing! But what about the spring tension on the bigsby? Doesn't it have to match the string tension?
Just bought a 335 copy with a Bigsby,Big Bends Nut Sauce was made for this bridge
Seems like $175 is a lot for that.
The bridge on that guitar is a “tilting” or “rocking” bridge design. It’s meant to lean and strings do not slide over the bridge saddles.
First strings go over the roller not underneath,maybe try some locking tuners that cost a quarter of this ludicrous price. You could also try some inexpensive violin fine tuners but wait for just a couple of Quid You could try a suitable electrical terminal block that can be adapted for both locking and fine tuning.
Darrell Braun Guitar….That is not a Bigsby!….It's a Licenced Bigsby and it says so right on it…those white nylon bushings can be seen from 10 feet away…
too expensive , doesnt worth it
Hefty price man. Dear Lord I help this did my 2622T Gretsch. I also wish after I ordered it would have given me a confirmation email and estimated time of arrival for shipping to Chicago. Order # 4126
I just wish it didn’t say nutbuster on it, looks so dumb.
with the spring, i was at my local music store trying some pedals using a bigsby. not knowing anything about them other than it can raise and lower pitch, i raised it too high and almost lost the spring
Your playing with 9s?
Heavy strings are better with bigsby's I feel.
Its not an ibanez jem…… bigsby are designed for a gentle 'warble' not for pulling up/dive bombing etc…i string mine with the strings over the top of the roller bar instead of under it…..dont have any problems
All of my friends love Bigsbys….I am "that guy" I took a Bigsby off and gave it to one of them. Me no like da Bigs.
i always put a roller bridge and locking tuners on my Grestch's and a well made or reworked nut. no more than 4 turns with the strings and tuning problems were gone. roller bridges are cheap by the way , tuners too.
Yes man
The people who made the nut hater should have put threaded holes on the nut hater so when you take the screws out to use it you can just screw them into the nut buster. You know damn well your gonna lose those screws
Let me get this straight so it doesn’t make the guitar bust nutts?
I have had no problems ever with bigsby. Maybe you are getting one that is not made in America.
heavymetalATC is doing a custom guitar build called "The Mythbuster" and he installed a $5 Chinese roller saddle on it, as well as a roller nut. Now in "as is" format, that saddle was ASS, indeed, but the man took it apart, put the rollers on a finishing nail, then chucked that into a drill and used an old set of strings to cut exact grooves in the rollers so the strings wouldn't slide and buzz on them. Then he went and either squeezed or spread the ears of the bridge to set tolerance on the rollers so there was simultaneously zero binding and zero play. After doing the same thing to the roller nut and installing it all, he had plenty of sustain, and ZERO tuning issues even after several severe dives and stretches that would be reminiscent of a Floyd Rose player.
EDIT: I'm surprised at how well something this simple works. Neat.
Double Edit: Bruh. Just found the price in the comments. What a joke. Double roller for the win.
and that's what needs to happen! the bridge needs to rock back and forth. That's how the rocker bridge works!
Lol, why not just buy a better guitar?
what is the best roller bridge for a Gretsch?
Why can't my bigsby can't get the note to the lowest note ????
Darrell do you think maybe locking tuners would respond as well as the nut buster?
OMG $185.00
Nutsauce. Problem solved.
Way more to it that that!!! Smooth out the nut grooves and graphite it. Def have a roller bridge. Remove the Bigsby roller barrel, put some dry
silicone on the perpendicularly all over. Now look at it from the back and make sure the roller barrel
Great video Darrell,
Funny how many guys have their own interpretation on how to keep a Bigsby in tune (based on what issue in particular is ailing them), Kind of like the 5 blind men describing an elephant. Seems like there are probably 3 big ones…. and YES, the nut is #1. Obviously, lubing is key, but not always the silver bullet (actually there is no silver bullet available that covers all the bases). Nut buster appears to hit this area on the head! (STA-TUNED is another that hits it). Bridge issues are a big one too, but as likely as it seems that a roller bridge is the answer (been down that road as well), most of the problem in this area comes from too much tension on the tension roller. Peterbennet (below) seems to be hard and fast about running the strings over the roller, but as many have found, this isn't for everyone, as the geometry of some guitars just won't allow it, because, for instance, a heavy handed player will knock the strings out of the saddles. If that were the blanket solution, a non-roller Biggs would have (or should have) been installed from the start. This is the reason for a tension roller Bigsbys in the first place. I chased this problem around on my Pro Jet for years. In my case it was the tension roller (everything else addressed ad nauseam). I tried B3 (non-tension roller model), and yes, the tuning stability increased (a big clue for me), but "Ham Hands" here knocked the strings out of the saddles. Enter Bricksbiggsfix. And certainly it is no silver bullet cure-all either. If you still have the other issues, you still have the other issues. But for me, it was the last piece of the puzzle. If you'd be willing to give one a test drive, I'd send you one (I'm the inventor and patent holder). As far as the other areas (tuners, string wrapping and such), they are less significant, but even if that's one's description of the elephant, that is what it is for them. Got to address them all! If you are one of the lucky one's that have a guitar like this that gives you no problems, YOU BETTER KEEP IT- you have some pure magic!!!
Ever thought of a roller bridge ? I got one for $30 ,works like a charm.
I got a roller bridge and it still goes out of tune.
This is a nice demonstration, and it looks like a clever and useful accessory that I would be inclined to buy. But, it was a bit too high of a price for an impulse try/buy.
Biggest ugly useless piece of crap plain ugly unreliable it looks like something your grandfather made for you out of spare hardware from his garage and the fender standard tremolo not much better that's just my take I know some love them and timeless recordings were done with them just not for me sorry I know playing guitar isn't about looks but that nut buster is as god ugly as the bigsby me I just like a straight guitar setup no frills just stay in tune in tune is better than sacrificing a slight affect that you could probably obtain from a whammy pedal the trem effect is no doubt cool yet I usually take them off or block them as we all know the tremolo defined Jeff's sound and he owned it like no other musician he turn the tremolo bar into an instrument itself it's something I could never get down