I’ve been fitting locking tuners to all my electric guitars for 20 years – and I just found out I’ve been using them wrong the whole time

Closeups of a Fender headstock with locking tuners
(Image credit: Future)

As someone who hates restringing guitars, let me go on record and say that locking tuners are one of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind.

No wrapping, no tucking the string under, no confusion: just stick the string through the hole of the relevant machinehead, tighten that thumbwheel, tune up, job done.

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