WhiteStrat
Don't stare at the eye.
Just got my latest copy of StewMac's catalog and the 510's are all over the cover. As good as they look, it's even better to hear your opinion of them. Interesting...
Just got my latest copy of StewMac's catalog and the 510's are all over the cover. As good as they look, it's even better to hear your opinion of them. Interesting...
muttley600
Banned
They are excellent tuners and very much "in vogue" especially the teardrop buttons. I like them a lot but there are other good ones out there. They are my choice but I'm happy to use whatever if the customer wants them as long as I know they'll stand up to the test of time.
mjbphotos
Moderator
I have had unwound strings slip on the peg with single or double winds only below the string hole, but never with wound strings. Doing the over-under wind prevents it and makes it no harder to remove the strings.
Nick98338
New member
I change 'em all at the same time. I don't have tuning problems.
I don't cut 'em.
I don't wrap over-under. I do make sure I have three wraps around the post.
1 has locking tuners, 1 doesn't. They both work fine.
My nuts are none of your business.
I don't cut 'em.
I don't wrap over-under. I do make sure I have three wraps around the post.
1 has locking tuners, 1 doesn't. They both work fine.
My nuts are none of your business.
muttley600
Banned
No you haven't. You have either not wound them on two full turns or your tuners are shot.
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robin watson
New member
Me neither. I'm buggered if I'm going to do the one-string-at-a-time thing. And I enjoy running a big fat pair of cutters through the old strings, too - facilitates easy removal. Any short term tuning problems will be the new strings stretching and settling in.
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robin watson
New member
So if I hear the experts correctly--locking tuners do nothing?
I've been playing for almost 30 years now--and just ordered my first set to put on one of my guitars. It's no real loss if they're ineffective--I'm "pimping out" the guitar with all new black hardware anyway, so I was going to replace the old silver ones.
But I guess I'm revising (downward!) my expectations of the locking tuners.
When it comes to quick string changes live, locking tuners are your best friend! I had Sperzel locking tuners on my previous Strat, and they were smooth as butter.
punkin
Univalve & Avatar Speaks
I'm a take it all off kinda guy. I don't cut the strings but I always take them off, acoustic, electrics, floaters, doesn't matter to me. I like to clean the neck and the nooks and crannies. Taking the floating trem out is kind of a ritual for me as well.
Light
New member
So if I hear the experts correctly--locking tuners do nothing?
Well, they break more.
Kidding, kind of. They're more complex, so there is more to go wrong, but I actually like locking tuners, particularly for guitars with trems. They aren't as good as a locking nut, but they do make the thing more stable. And I have to admit, I'm starting to like the Planet Waves Auto Trim gears. Not enough to use them over the Gotoh 510 locking gears, but they are nice.
Light
"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
Light
New member
Oh, on non-locking gears, I cut them about an inch or a little more past the gear, stick the string in the hole, go over the cut end once, and the wind the rest of it on underneath. Depending on the string, it will be between one and three wraps under, and I've never had problems with them. They are also way easier to change.
There are a lot of right ways to do it though. I tell customers who ask to do it the way Frank Ford says in the Frets.com Instrument Owners Manual, which is different from how I do it, but works fine.
The only one I really get bothered by is when people push the bridge pins on an acoustic in too hard, because you can crack the bridge (it's not dissimilar from how the Egyptians cut the stones for the pyramids, after all).
Light
"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
There are a lot of right ways to do it though. I tell customers who ask to do it the way Frank Ford says in the Frets.com Instrument Owners Manual, which is different from how I do it, but works fine.
The only one I really get bothered by is when people push the bridge pins on an acoustic in too hard, because you can crack the bridge (it's not dissimilar from how the Egyptians cut the stones for the pyramids, after all).
Light
"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
WhiteStrat
Don't stare at the eye.
Well tonight I was busy working on my Strat--which is not the guitar getting the locking tuners. (in fact I was just talking to Light in a thread regarding my Strat--thanks again!)
If I get to it, I'll be putting the locking tuners on my Epi LP tomorrow. Although I'm doing a bunch of stuff--including all the electronics, like I did with my Strat. So I may not finish it...
And Light, stay by your computer tomorrow night.
I foresee questions already. (For example--my Epi LP is a simple job, just one volume & tone. And if I remember correctly the pickups are two wire--at least that's what I recall from last time I was in there. But the replacements are 4 wire. Hmmm...what to do... Well, we'll see about that tomorrow.)
If I get to it, I'll be putting the locking tuners on my Epi LP tomorrow. Although I'm doing a bunch of stuff--including all the electronics, like I did with my Strat. So I may not finish it...
And Light, stay by your computer tomorrow night.
I foresee questions already. (For example--my Epi LP is a simple job, just one volume & tone. And if I remember correctly the pickups are two wire--at least that's what I recall from last time I was in there. But the replacements are 4 wire. Hmmm...what to do... Well, we'll see about that tomorrow.)
Zaphod B
Raccoons-Be-Gone, Inc.
That's the same locking wrap that I use.