Where you do stand on wrapping strings with locking tuners?

[weepingminotaur]

Do you just thread through, tighten, and lock, for stability? Do you wrap once, to reduce the chances of strings breaking? Do you wrap multiple times?

 

[NegativeEase]

I do 1 full wrap plus the addition of part of a wrap when tuning up to pitch on lockers.

I want the string to impart its energy with surface area around the entire post.

People who lock down with barely a wrap are psychos.

 

[weepingminotaur]

Heh, I lock down with barely a wrap, so be afraid of me. I am really curious to hear more arguments for wrapping, though.

 

[NegativeEase]

Heh, I lock down with barely a wrap, so be afraid of me. I am really curious to hear more arguments for wrapping, though.

n The locking mechanism/cam inside the locker is a free piece of metal only touching at certain parts of the machine head post at any given time due to the play in the mechanism required for free movement inside the the locking tuner. You don't want the majority of your resonant loop/trsnfer of the energy from the the strings into the body to be primarily moving through the locking cam, but rather the string wrapped around the post directly to the part that is in touch with the headstock of my guitar more fully.

Just my opinion.

 

[Mincer]

I think I wrap less than once.

 

[Securb]

I pop 'em in, lock and give about a half turn to tune.

 

[JOLLY]

Apparently, I'm a psycho.:9:​​​​​​​​​

 

[Rex_Rocker]

If you wrap around locking tuners, why did you get locking tuners in the first place? Why not just use regular tuners, then?

 

[Chris Pile]

If you wrap more than one full turn, you are an idiot who wasted your money.

 

[Securb]

Some people believe in tying the string to the tuning peg for stability. If you ever had to remove a tied-on string, you know there is a special place in hell for these people. The only thing that irks me more is people that do not trim their guitar strings. I will not even pick up a guitar when I see that.

 

[NegativeEase]

Some people believe in tying the string to the tuning peg for stability. If you ever had to remove a tied-on string, you know there is a special place in hell for these people. The only thing that irks me more is people that do not trim their guitar strings. I will not even pick up a guitar when I see that.

Ok, now that is psycho, I take back my statement.

 

[NegativeEase]

If you wrap around locking tuners, why did you get locking tuners in the first place? Why not just use regular tuners, then?

You see my comment? no need to wrap around more than once like a standard wrap which is 2+ -instead, use the locker for the speed of change and avoiding slippage advantage and get the benefit of wrapping the string around the entire peg to better get the energy to the machine head through less parts of metal that are not static against the headstock.

Just feed the string the the locking machine head hole positioned a little less than perpendicular to the nut channel, lock down and pitch up and you'll end up with about a full wrap and maybe a touch more around the locker. easy.

 

[JMP/HBE]

2 to 3 wraps locking or not. I play .011 to .056 and need the wraps for tuning stability.

 

[weepingminotaur]

Some people believe in tying the string to the tuning peg for stability. If you ever had to remove a tied-on string, you know there is a special place in hell for these people. The only thing that irks me more is people that do not trim their guitar strings. I will not even pick up a guitar when I see that.

I don't understand how anyone can leave their strings untrimmed. Do they enjoy cutting themselves on the string ends?

 

[Chris Pile]

Played in a band with a guy who wouldn't cut off his strings. He told me he used them to stab anyone who couldn't keep time. I didn't get stabbed. Buy a cheap fingernail clipper and give that peghead a haircut.

 

[weepingminotaur]

Yeah, I mean, come on, if you have nail clippers or wire cutters lying around, you can cut your damn strings.

 

[beaubrummels]

I'm a 'psycho', but I only have one guitar with lockers right now and the tension of the string at pitch seems to give sufficient transfer of vibration on that one. I've tried wraps with it and tuning stability seemed to be a bit better without wraps and the tone and sustain wasn't different in any significantly perceptible/measurable way to my ear.

 

[solspirit]

I line up all my tuners so that I get a half wrap and pull the loose end while I tighten the lock nut, I give them a little stretch around the 12th fret and then tune up.

I trim them flush with the tuning post

 

[ErikH]

I line up the tuner holes so the string goes straight through, pull it taught, lock it, tune to pitch. Stretch the string with a couple tugs and tune to pitch again. I do not wrap with locking tuners.

 

[Liam1963]

I string thru, I don't pull the string too tight, lock and tune to pitch, it may result in maybe half a turn around the peg, but no more than that....