![]() This eliminates the need for oil and keeps the lubrication where it’s needed, for the life of the tuner. The Lubri-Coat™ process electro-coats the gears with a special polymer layer. ![]() Two post heights eliminate the need for string trees. No more wobbly string posts to cause tuning problems. Rock Solid™ string posts eliminate looseness and reduce backlash for improved tuning stability. Locking tuners are excellent for non-locking tremolo guitars, and for players that do heavy string-bending. Since there's just a partial wrap of string around the post, tuning stability is dramatically improved. Just a few turns of the tuner knob and you're up to pitch. Pull the string taught through the tuner hole, and with a twist of the thumbwheel the string is locked into the post. Traditional thumbscrew-style locking functionality with Gotoh technology. ![]() View All WOODSTAX - Shop Tonewood by the Piece.View All All Hardware + Parts by Instrument.I have them on my travel guitar (a strat I take the neck off and put in my suitcase disassembled) The lockers let me keep my strings when I break it down, though it isn't uncommon to lose an e-string in the unlocking/relocking operation. They may offer advantages in tuning stability but I am not 100% certain of that if strings are wrapped right on a conventional shaft of either kind. I use them a lot in both 6 in-line and 3x3 configurations. I am sure you are exactly right about the advantage your lockers brought to your two Les Pauls, as I agree that lockers are faster than non-lockers, except for vintage split shaft non-lockers, which I doubt your Les Pauls had before the tuner swap.Īlso note I am in no way hating on lockers. Note that in this claim I refer ONLY to vintage style split shaft tuners. The installation time advantage with lockers doesn't make up for the string removal advantage with split-shafts. Seriously less than 10 seconds for the entire operation. And I say "really familiar" because I used them for a long time before I had that epiphany watching Colt Knight doing a string change and realized that they are 10 times faster (literally, at least) to remover the strings than lockers. Perhaps you are not really familiar with vintage split-shaft tuners. Vintage spilt-shaft tuners have a VAST advantage in de-stringing time over any other type tuner including lockers. Lockers have a slight advantage in de-stringing over non-lockers without the vintage split-shaft configuration. YMMV.Ĭlick to expand.To address your statement specifically, lockers have an advantage in the time required for stringing over any other tuners with which I am familiar. I would never want to discourage a mod, and you may find you like the Gotoh lockers better than you present setup, but if you perfect that string removal technique (you'll have to slide 8 of 'em under that string tree bar first) I don't think it'll make things much faster, if at all. ![]() One could change about 10 guitars in that time! One dude had a 48 minute plus video on youtube demonstrating how to change strings on vintage tuners. It is amazing that this trick of removing the strings is not more widely known and practiced. Yes, you have to pinch them tight to ensure that that the string doesnt slip. The slightly increased time to install on the tuners you have will about make up for that. brnsnd said: The Gotoh SD91 Locking tuners with HAPM have a great vintage look, and once familiarized with the locking/height mechanisms they work great. I could not find a single video online demonstrating this, but it is literally about 10 times faster than the string removal on the locking tuners. To remove your current strings, (if it were not for the bar holding down A-B) you can just cut all of them in one pass with the side nippers and then grab all of them together and pull them vertically up off the slotted vintage posts and they should all just come right off in about 5 seconds. It's not particularly fast, especially for removal. When you install the strings, you have the slotted top loosened so the string will enter it, and then while holding the string straight with some tension on it, you tighten the tuner button and this raises the locking post up and locks in the string as you tighten it. The video that follows gets away with not doing that but if you read reviews you will see the posts sometimes fail to release the string - maybe I'm doing it wrong. I see, so you'll but two sets, a righty and a lefty? As I recall, when you remove the strings with the lockers, you sometimes have to individually loosen each one of the slotted posts to free the string from the little pin that rises up to lock it in when it was originally installed.
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