Looking for opinions: locking tuners and ball ends
Looking for opinions: locking tuners and ball ends
Good, info, thanks.
I think one key element is whether someone is using the locking nut. I've had a couple Floyd guitars over the years where I've stopped using the locking nut, and moved to a more Petrucci style solution with tremolo and locking tuning machines, but no locked nut. Maybe it's just that I hate dealing with fine tuners on the bridge.
I got all excited at my box of new Schaller tuning machines, and my girl looked at them and said, you bought locking machines for a guitar with a locking nut? And she gave me a look that made me wilt like I'd been hit with Roundup. So now I'm debating even installing them. I guess they can't hurt, but it's starting to feel a little wasteful.
It's a Sinclair setup. Don't know how that nut differs from OFR stuff. I can't see a NYC ESP using crap hardware, but stranger things have happened.
OFR metal is hardened steel and says made in Germany on them. The licensed and FRS trems are made of Korean or Chinese metal (much softer metal). It strips easy and rusts (tarnishes) faster.
Cut 'em off. Once I have the string snugged in the bridge/saddle, I pull it as tight as I can by hand through the tuning peg and then tighten the locking knob, tune then cut. I usually leave about 1/8" of string poking out.