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I've had locking tuners on a couple of things. They're neat, but a solution looking for a problem most of the time.
One thing I'll mention because nobody else has: locking tuners, the thumbwheel-on-the-back type, can add a fair bit of weight to the headstock. Sperzels are pretty lightweight anyway, but the locking Schallers are pretty hefty things.
I'm not sure about Grovers, the only type I've tried didn't have thumbwheels, they had very tall posts with a screw at the end, a bit like PRS. They looked a bit silly so I replaced them with Gotohs. On the thumbwheel ones the wheel is quite slim so it may not add much weight.
I don't particularly buy in to the idea that they'll keep tuning better than a well-stringed normal tuner but it does mean that even a total beginner stringing a guitar for the first time will be just as good as the best accomplished tech could do with normal tuners.
The simple feature of just pulling the new string through and screwing it instead of putting the string through then wrapping it round is worth the whole price of the tuners alone IMO.
I did like the PRS 'wing' tuners too, although they also need a learned technique to make them lock perfectly tightly and reliably every time.
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I bought two sets of tuners (Schallers and Grovers) not too long ago. I thought about getting locking ones, but didn't bother in the end.
But I like the idea of them.
Those PRS tuners were good when you got the hang of them. I do prefer their newer tuners though. I've always got a coin handy to do them up. Only problem is that I don't have any PRS guitars left, and nobody else seems to make tuners in that style.
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