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ralphp
Joined: 26 Jan 2007
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 Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:39 am Post subject: Locking Machineheads |
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I have a gordon smith SG which plays and sounds great but has rubbish tuning stability. I've had the thing set up serval times and never improved the problem really so I was thinking of having it fitted with locking machineheads. The SG has a tunamatic and stop tail and brass nut.
What's everybodies experience with these? Do they make a big difference and if so what brand did you get?
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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
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Location: London, UK
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I have standard Kluson tuners on my 1996 Gibson SG, our set in the band is anything from 2hrs to 3hrs, i play the SG for the full set and never tune it, why don't you just change the tuners? |
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1bassleft
Lowdown Cack-hander
Joined: 16 Feb 2005
Posts: 3863
Location: "Hit The North"
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:42 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, I've had the "ping, gdoink, downg" effect from rubbish tuners suddenly dropping me a random number of tones. As Lee says, you don't have to go the whole hog of locking tuners (although there's no reason why not). A decent set of the usuals (Gotoh, Grover, Schaller) should solve the problem without requiring locking tuners, though. |
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