The Online Guitar Store - Grover 106C Rotomatic 18 to 1 Ratio Locking Guitar Tuners (Chrome) (Set Of 6)

	List Price: $82.50 Our Price: $42.36 Your Save: $ 40.14 ( 49% ) Availability: N/A Manufacturer: Grover
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Brand: Grover EAN: 0082562074729 Label: Grover Manufacturer: Grover Publisher: Grover Studio: Grover
Editorial Reviews: The introduction of the new Grover Locking RotomaticsĀ® gives you the ease of use provided by a standard tuner and the positive locking of our internal cam post. Simply insert the string through the string hole, pull to tension by hand and begin tuning. As you start to tune, only the locking cam in the string post turns. Once the string is locked, the string post begins to turn allowing you to bring the string to pitch. In less than one revolution of the string post, you will be in tune, to stay in tune. Gear ratio is 18 to 1.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Great idea, very good construction but ... Comment: they do not have a concave indent around the peg's cylinder. The purpose of that concave indent, as it is used on about every machine head I've seen, is to ensure the string finds a equilibrium point and stops moving about on the peg. These Grover locking tuners, probably as a result of the self locking design, have a totally flat indent around the peg's cylinder and so the strings can (and unfortunately do) move about. For some guitars, they may not, but I have a Gibson 335 clone (a 1979 Ibanez Artist) with a 3/3 peghead and just a little movement of the string on the peg (say, after a bend) causes a sudden jump in pitch (sometimes up, sometimes down). It really is only a factor on the 2nd (B) and 3rd (G) strings. I really like the idea behind these machine heads, but there needs to be some sort of concave surface on the peg, or some other method of ensuring the string finds an equilibrium spot AND STAYS THERE, or sudden changes in pitch, particularly on the unwound strings, could always be a problem. Just be aware of this when you purchase these machine heads. I like Grover tuners, but this is a bit of engineering oversight on their part I think. Customer Rating: Summary: Stay Tuned Comment: Great product for every guitarist. If you're looking specifically at locking machineheads, they're not quite as good as sperzel's, but better than planetwaves' auto-trim. I have the Sperzels on my other les paul and I got these for my new one because I thought they were the same diameter as the standard green key tuners and I wouldn't have to drill. Unfortunatley they were a little bigger, but it's easy to drill out the holes. The only reason I like the sperzels a little better is because string change is about 1 min faster, but these are still extremely fast and they're cheaper! Locking tuners are a MUST upgrade for any every-day player because even if you string it exactly as you're supposed to, the strings still slip and take days to finally settle. The 18:1 ratio is great also, I thought it would take forever to tune up but they lock up quick and you're in tune in a couple of revolutions, and because it's such a large ratio, you get an extremely precise tune. They are very heavy and it took a minute to get use to the added headstock weight but I think it actually helped balance out my bottom-heavy LP. More Reviews