Been thinking about switching the Tuners out on my American Professional Tele for Fenders locking ones.
They’re a drop in replacement but I’ve noticed something when checking them out..
Stock, the guitar has fenders normal staggered tuners, with the E and A strings peg’s being long and the D,G,B,e strings pegs being short.
The locking replacements though are 3 long and 3 short which is a shame.. why would they do this lol?!
I fear the break angle on the D string is going to suffer if it moves from a short peg to a long one, especially locking so there are no wraps to assist it.
I’ve emailed Fender to see if they would supply a set of all short post locking types, as these are standard on the Ultra models, or at least supply me an additional 1 short post one. Not holding my breath though.
I did think about just installing them anyway but putting a long post one on the high e or B and using that short post for the D.. as the string tree would negate any break angle issue on those two highest strings.
Nowt wrong with the regular tuners on it mind, just love locking types.
Whats yer thoughts?
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Fender/Ping locking tuners are fine (Schaller haven't made them for Fender for ages now), but mine are 4+2 staggered. I scoured eBay for ages as occasionally singles come up for sale. They seem to be readily available singly in the US but not here.
Occasionally older Fender/Schaller made one's are available from Fender (plain locking wheel). These are either short or long post (sorry, I don't know the part numbers) and have the same diameter bushing thread as Ping, but the Schaller made variant had a short thread within the tuner collar. The Ping bushing is the correct thread but is too long, so won't seat against the headstock face and will stand proud, so you would need to cut it down. Of course, Fender supply them either without the bushing, or with the wrong Ping bushing - genius! Schallers own branded version with an embossed 'S" on the locking wheel are 3+3 (short and long) and have the same short thread within the collar, and were made until around 2016-ish? The current Schaller branded version is distinguished by a satin 'S' on the locking wheel and now takes the long Ping style bushing (hurrah!). However, these are 3+3 with long and medium posts (no short posts) which seems like madness to me, and many dealers haven't updated their product listings (e.g. Thomann) so their info is wrong. Schaller do sell tuners individually, and when they started making their current version they briefly made a short post version available as a part (not in sets). Sadly they no longer sell the short post variant at all. Thankfully I did manage to get a few when they were available.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/89942/caspercaster#latest
Edit: I have a short post Schaller made version spare. It has the satin 'S' on the locking wheel and correct length bushing - £20 delivered if you're at all interested.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/89942/caspercaster#latest