First experience with locking tuners
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blueman335
Mojo's Minions
Re: First experience with locking tuners
I have locking tuners on a couple of the guitars I bought used. Not enough of a difference for me to replace the tuners on my other guitars. I can replace a set of strings in a few minutes, so the time savings aspect is moot. If you're not using a whammy bar (which many guitars don't have) locking tuners aren't quite as appealing. There are other features that are more important. I'm perfectly content with Grover Rotomatics. If you do have a whammy bar, you appreciate some kind of improvement over standard tuners. Let manufacturers know it's important to you by not buying their whammy bar guitars unless there's some kind of tuning stability hardware.
I have locking tuners on a couple of the guitars I bought used. Not enough of a difference for me to replace the tuners on my other guitars. I can replace a set of strings in a few minutes, so the time savings aspect is moot. If you're not using a whammy bar (which many guitars don't have) locking tuners aren't quite as appealing. There are other features that are more important. I'm perfectly content with Grover Rotomatics. If you do have a whammy bar, you appreciate some kind of improvement over standard tuners. Let manufacturers know it's important to you by not buying their whammy bar guitars unless there's some kind of tuning stability hardware.
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Archer250
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Re: First experience with locking tuners
Locking tuners don't really improve stability over a well-wound tuner, but for whammy bar users, they are useful, because they make the process faster for a guitar that takes a bit longer to string than hardtail ones.
Locking tuners don't really improve stability over a well-wound tuner, but for whammy bar users, they are useful, because they make the process faster for a guitar that takes a bit longer to string than hardtail ones.
