Locking tuners for Tele

[BenPerkins]

Hi, I’m looking for locking tuners for a Tele. Current tuners don’t require drilling - really want to go the same route with replacements.

Gracias

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[NegativeEase]

Re: Locking tuners for Tele

Just get the Fender Locking Schallers with F logo. $50-60. done.

Don't think they require drilling on Squire.

 

[Chistopher]

Re: Locking tuners for Tele

Squires have 10mm tuner holes, so they will fit most modern 13/32" holes. You should be good if you go with the NE's advice.

 

[Blille]

Re: Locking tuners for Tele

AFAIK the pins of the Fenders don’t line up with squiers. So no, the Fenders may not work unless you want to drill the pins. Double check, of course.

The Hipshots in-line with UMP will work with any guitar.

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: Locking tuners for Tele

The Fender Branded ones have pins further out from the Squire ones

The Kiesel branded ones are drop in

Thanks Bruce

 

[LonePhantom]

Re: Locking tuners for Tele

Graphtech Ratios line up, but they are fairly pricey. VEry nice tuners though.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Locking tuners for Tele

You'd think this would be easier. Why are there different standards for these things?

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Locking tuners for Tele

You'd think this would be easier. Why are there different standards for these things?

I manage an auto parts store. Almost every braking system on every car you see on the road uses a hydraulic piston to compress friction material sandwiched around a metal disc to slow the car when you step on the brake pedal. Cars vary in weight, so one size disc/friction will not work for everything, but I bet I stock close to 300 different sizes of each. Probably more. And get this: At least 25% of the time, I still have to order the correct parts for a customer.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Locking tuners for Tele

I manage an auto parts store. Almost every braking system on every car you see on the road uses a hydraulic piston to compress friction material sandwiched around a metal disc to slow the car when you step on the brake pedal. Cars vary in weight, so one size disc/friction will not work for everything, but I bet I stock close to 300 different sizes of each. Probably more. And get this: At least 25% of the time, I still have to order the correct parts for a customer.

But certainly cars should vary more than guitars. Some tuners are so close in size- some use posts, some don't, and some the post is 1mm from the other one. It is a silly thing that we go through when we just want a tuner that covers up the holes and fits.

 

[larryguitar]

Re: Locking tuners for Tele

But certainly cars should vary more than guitars. Some tuners are so close in size- some use posts, some don't, and some the post is 1mm from the other one. It is a silly thing that we go through when we just want a tuner that covers up the holes and fits.

Especially within a single company; I can't think of a logical reason Fender wouldn't want you to be able to upgrade a Squier with Fender parts?

Larry

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Locking tuners for Tele

But certainly cars should vary more than guitars. Some tuners are so close in size- some use posts, some don't, and some the post is 1mm from the other one. It is a silly thing that we go through when we just want a tuner that covers up the holes and fits.

In both cases, they’re doing exactly the same thing. A tuner is rotating and holding position, brakes are squeezing a rotor and slowing your vehicle. There is no reason for all the arbitrary differences in either situation.

 

[dystrust]

Re: Locking tuners for Tele

Especially within a single company; I can't think of a logical reason Fender wouldn't want you to be able to upgrade a Squier with Fender parts?

Larry

It probably has more to do with cost. The Squier line is licensed out instead of being made by Fender, so they probably use whatever hardware is available locally instead of having to ship their own hardware.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Locking tuners for Tele

You'd think this would be easier. Why are there different standards for these things?

You mean like the wire color coding in pickups??!

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: Locking tuners for Tele

Oh man don't get me started on wire color

Why cant they all have the traditional shape

You know that super comfy roundback gourd that looks like half a watermelon and the scale of a mandolin

 

[Mincer]

Re: Locking tuners for Tele

Wire color should absolutely be standard. We have standards for the dimensions of a humbucker. The market decides which pickups rise to the top (from a $ point of view). Yet wire colors are all over the place. If tuners all used the same footprint, you 1. wouldn't have to search all over for correct replacements and 2. the best working ones would rise to the top. We'd have great vintage ones and great modern locking ones, and weird ultra-modern ones that don't look like tuners as we know it. But you would have your choice of the best designs of those.

 

[Synapsys]

Re: Locking tuners for Tele

Planet Waves Auto-Trim are my go-to aftermarket tuners. Just adding anothed option.

 

[B2D]

Re: Locking tuners for Tele

Just get the Fender Locking Schallers with F logo. $50-60. done.

Don't think they require drilling on Squire.

I don't know if they're the same tuners as what came on my MIM Lone Star Strat, but they look REALLY similar. I got the Fender-stamped Schaller tuners and they dropped in with no drilling in about 10 minutes.

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/de...VYhh9Ch2TmQudEAQYASABEgK-I_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: Locking tuners for Tele

I don't know if they're the same tuners as what came on my MIM Lone Star Strat, but they look REALLY similar. I got the Fender-stamped Schaller tuners and they dropped in with no drilling in about 10 minutes.

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/de...VYhh9Ch2TmQudEAQYASABEgK-I_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

The F logo Fender locking tuners are drop in replacements for Mexican and American standard guitars
The Asian made Squire has the same pins but they are slightly closer to the tuner hole
Either way the tuner will cover the unused holes
But they dont just drop in


Some say you need to drill new holes for these pins
I haven't in any of mine
I just hold them square while I tighten the nut
They bite in

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Locking tuners for Tele

I love those tuners. I have about a dozen guitars with them.