For many years I used my olde Tele no trem bar no need for locking tuners or the like. It stays in tune for a very long period. In fact I play strings in then tune it. If I need to retune I change the strings it stays in tune that well and always has. Before the Tele I had a Strat I could never keep in tune.

Recently I purchased a Yamaha Pacifica 612 which has a trem and is fitted with Grosvenor Locking tuners and a Graftech nut. This guitar stays in tune really well even when pulling strings (not that I pull hard) and using the trem. If it sounds a bit off just give the trem a good push and all comes fine again. When I first pulled it out of the box I yanked the B string out of the tuner, replaced the string and all is fine.

I’m really pleased with the locking tuners. They make replacing a string very quick. A bit scary at first but really good.

My thoughts and experience
Tony

Last edited by Teunis; 03/08/22 05:07 PM.
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