When you’re first learning to play guitar, it’s easy to get confused by all of the conventional wisdom out there, especially when it comes to re-stringing and tuning the guitar. Take locking tuners: You’re supposed to wrap you string around some tuner posts, but do you wrap your strings with a locking tuner? You should …
The tuning machines on a guitar are not the most glamorous part, not getting nearly the attention of wood selection, fret board material, or pickups. But there is still an important decision to make there: Picking locking vs. non-locking guitar tuners. Whether you should choose locking or non-locking guitar tuners depends on a number of …
Locking Vs Non-Locking Guitar Tuners – Which Should You Pick? Read More »
If you’re looking at buying a guitar, especially if it’s your first, you’ve probably heard about locking tuners, but you might not understand what they are or why they’re used. So what is a locking tuner? A locking tuner is a mechanism, first invented in the 1980s, that mechanically clamps a guitar string into place …
If you’ve had trouble with your guitar staying in tune, you might have wondered about locking tuners — can you put them on any guitar? One big advantage of locking tuners is that they can be installed on nearly any guitar and leave little to no trace if you or the next owner wants to …
If you’re looking for a new guitar, you’ve probably seen options with locking nuts and others with locking tuners and wondered which is better. Whether you should choose a locking nut or locking tuner depends on the kind of music you play, how much and how vigorously you use a guitar’s tremolo system, and how …
Locking Nut Vs. Locking Tuners: Which Should You Choose? Read More »
