Are Grover locking tuners any good?

[littleredguitars2]

yeah i went with the grovers. i personally prefer the gold tulip tuners but i'll get over it

[Dave Sloven]

You ordered them in gold okay?

[Philly Q]

yeah i went with the grovers. i personally prefer the gold tulip tuners but i'll get over it

I'm not 100% sure, only because I haven't tried it with these particular tuners, but you should be able to swap the tulip buttons from your existing Grovers onto the locking Grovers in place of the kidney bean buttons.  Try it and see.

[Dave Sloven]

There might be some chance of swapping the locking internals for the non-locking ones, but I don't know if I'd try to remove the tuning head from its shaft.  I'm pretty sure they are a sealed lubricated unit.  I do remember though the shaft etc for the actual string winding etc sliding out.

[littleredguitars2]

hmmm. not sure if i want to break them open and mess with them.

[Dave Sloven]

I wouldn't.

I quite like the kidney shape ones though.

The Townsend SGs used them

[littleredguitars2]

my 335 has the kidneys. they arent awful. just not preferable

[Philly Q]

I'm only talking about swapping the buttons over, not suggesting you touch the internal workings of either the tuning or locking mechanisms.

it's just a case of unscrewing 12 screws and swapping the buttons over, it's a piece of piss.

[littleredguitars2]

hmmm maybe that would work

[Philly Q]

I've swapped the buttons loads of times on Gotohs and Schallers.  Never Grovers, but I really can't imagine they'd be any different.  The only slightly tricky bit is tightening the screws just right so the tuners don't feel too loose or too stiff.

[littleredguitars2]

Good to know man.  Thanks for the suggestion

[Brow]

Wish Id've seen this before as have a set of gold Grovers or chrome Gotohs I would've let go for not much money. Bugger  :lol:

[littleredguitars2]

haha dang.

[Dave Sloven]

I have the chrome auto-locking tuners on my SG Junior now.  Great tuners, and they stay in tune much better than the Gibson tuners, but they are much heavier and I am experiencing some neck dive now.  Something to consider if buying tuners for a light guitar.  You can see the difference in mass in these photos.

[littleredguitars2]

yeah man those tuners are huge. i heard a good tip for guitar tilt. check it out in this video.

around 4:19 in the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8A37hBbV-c