![]() ![]() ![]() Gotoh Locking Tuners – 6 in a line – Magnun Lock Trad (MG-T) – Nickel. The Smooth Tuner have a button shape which is unique to Ibanez and an 18:1 gear ratio. tuning peg) installed on a number of Ibanez guitar models. The Smooth Tuner is a style of machine head (a.k.a. The Gotoh SG38 is a predecessor model which is virtually indistinguishable. It is manufactured by the G-GOTOH Gut Co., Ltd. The Gotoh SG381 is a style of machine head (a.k.a. What is Gotoh tuner?īlack/ chrome/ cosmo black/ gold/ nickel/ violet chrome. PerfectionPride as Made in Japan – Currently, we are the only manufacturer of stringed instruments parts in Japan that has earned the trust of many users. I was concerned about neatly enlarging the holes in the headstock to the 10mm diameter needed for the tuners. The tuners are well made, very smooth, and the posts are rock solid, which is important for transmitting the string vibrations efficiently. How do I install Gotoh tuner? Are Gotoh locking tuners any good? 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.7. 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. The slightly increased time to install on the tuners you have will about make up for that. 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. Buy vintage mcdonalds exclusive lego bionicle tohunga huki (1388) complete with disk. It's not particularly fast, especially for removal. Gotoh locking tuners round out the AZ2204s top-shelf feature set. 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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