Headpiece:
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Good idea in principal that also should never have made production .
Why:
Each piece is the same so even if it was functional fine it wouldn't match the fingerboard radius, now turn half of them around. You can see in the picture the down angles over the zero fret are all over the place, some even touch the end of the fingerboard.
The reason was so that a single lock could fit all the guitars (or actually non of them.)
It is only screwed down with a needlessly short screw and held straight by a pin (even though there is a ton of wood here) and has another candidate for the smallest part on a guitar, that tiny washer to cover the screw and act as a surface to lock the string against.
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This picture shows the issue and again WTF were they thinking when this made it in to production.
Also if you over tighten this you are in danger of ripping it off the guitar as the screw is so unsuitable . They later added a steel shim underneath to support the wood BUT why is the screw just shit. Changing a string at a gig is fraught with problems of loosing tiny proprietary parts that are vital to the guitars ability to even hold a string at pitch.
In fairness they have fixed this in rev 7 but should be sending out replacement nut clamps to ALL owners. This is just not fit for purpose.
I need to add this:
The reason the screw is so short is that they are all the same and the two centre ones go close to the truss rod. The obvious solution was a unibody string clamp screwed firmly in to the large amount of available wood under the A and B strings. This should be a recall event that the company just sends them to anyone that has a previous version. It should really be steel as well as should parts of the tuner assembly but the Rev 7 is a big improvement and will probably be sufficient .