Has anyone put locking tuning pegs on their guitar?

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rossipedia said:
Traditionally, I just grab the string in the middle and give it a good Tug and a Wiggle™ (a wink's as good as a nudge say no more say no more). Then I tune the string back up and repeat until I can do that without changing the string's pitch.
It's served me pretty well for a couple decades now. I recently nabbed the Stewmac String Stretcha (that little plastic thing), and it's pretty good, but the jury's still out on whether or not it's better.
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A partially stretched string is a nightmare on a floating trem.
 
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unix-guy said:
I put Ratio staggered locking tuners on my MIM Charvel DK-24...

They are a direct drop in replacement for the stock (2-pin) tuners.
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Both of my Charvels, a DK24 and a So cal, came with Charvel locking tuners that are staggered.

For some odd reason, they installed the shortest tuners closest to the nut on the G-E strings on the So cal. The reverse headstock must have confused their tiny brains....

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sandmannn69 said:
Both of my Charvels, a DK24 and a So cal, came with Charvel locking tuners that are staggered.

For some odd reason, they installed the shortest tuners closest to the nut on the G-E strings on the So cal. The reverse headstock must have confused their tiny brains....

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I'm assuming those are USA versions, or at least not MIM?

My USA model DK-24 came with Sperzel staggered tuners.

In your tip picture I also see only a single string tree, which is not how my MIM came... It had 2, USA has 1.
 
unix-guy said:
I'm assuming those are USA versions, or at least not MIM?

My USA model DK-24 came with Sperzel staggered tuners.

In your tip picture I also see only a single string tree, which is not how my MIM came... It had 2, USA has 1.
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Actually, they are both MIM versions. I bought them both new, DK24 from Sweetwater and the So cal from my local guitar shop.
The DK24 has a single tree and the So cal has two.

To be totally honest, the neck on the DK24 is from another blue DK24 I bought new at SW. I liked the neck on the blue one better but my burgundy
DK24(top one in the pic) had the best tone, so I swapped necks and sold the blue one. Didn't notice the staggered tuners until a month later.
 
I use locking tuners just because it's easy to change guitar strings. If you know how to string a guitar properly and make sure that everything else is working as it should, tuning stability should not be an issue. I never had issues before using locking tuners, I had just gotten really lazy restringing 12 guitars and a bass.
 
sandmannn69 said:
Actually, they are both MIM versions. I bought them both new, DK24 from Sweetwater and the So cal from my local guitar shop.
The DK24 has a single tree and the So cal has two.

To be totally honest, the neck on the DK24 is from another blue DK24 I bought new at SW. I liked the neck on the blue one better but my burgundy
DK24(top one in the pic) had the best tone, so I swapped necks and sold the blue one. Didn't notice the staggered tuners until a month later.
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Interesting... Maybe a change over the years. I've had my MIM for 4+ years.
 
Now they have staggered tuners they should stop fitting the string tree altogether . But that would require them to cut a nut better.
Can't complain though these are spectacular value guitars.
 
Late to this party but I did a set of Gotoh's on the Gretsch I just bought a few weeks back! Well worth the $89 just for the quick string changing alone. On the topic, another thing that some people tend overlook are loose tuning keys! Sometimes a 1/4 turn of the philips screw does wonders.
 
sandmannn69 said:
Both of my Charvels, a DK24 and a So cal, came with Charvel locking tuners that are staggered.

For some odd reason, they installed the shortest tuners closest to the nut on the G-E strings on the So cal. The reverse headstock must have confused their tiny brains....

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On my new schecter I thought it looked like the low E was shorter than the high E so I to them off but it was just illusion
 
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