How to restring with locking tuners?

ICBM

There’s a ‘party trick’ with a Floyd, if you need to do some work under the pickguard - if it’s properly locked, you can actually take the bridge right out of the guitar by removing the springs, do the work, put it back... and the guitar will usually be in tune .

With locking tuners, if you kink the string sharply in the opposite direction on the far side of the post before you cut it off, it usually stops any tendency for it to slip even on the thin strings.

zepp76

This may be a bit of a stupid question but can the extra weight of locking tuners cause neck dive on some guitars?

thegummy

zepp76 said:

This may be a bit of a stupid question but can the extra weight of locking tuners cause neck dive on some guitars?

Find out the weight of the locking tuners and your own tuners. Measure out the difference in blu tack then divide that in to 6 blobs and put one on the back of each of your tuners. That will let you feel exactly how the guitar will sit with locking tuners.

ICBM

zepp76 said:

This may be a bit of a stupid question but can the extra weight of locking tuners cause neck dive on some guitars?

It's not a stupid question at all.

In marginal cases, yes. So can heavy non-locking ones like Grover Rotomatics.

thegummy said:

Find out the weight of the locking tuners and your own tuners. Measure out the difference in blu tack then divide that in to 6 blobs and put one on the back of each of your tuners. That will let you feel exactly how the guitar will sit with locking tuners.

Exactly . Although if the difference is big, you might need to blu-tack some coins on as well.