Fender Deluxe Locking Staggered Guitar Tuners, Chrome 1.7 x 10 x 4.5 inches

Why did you pick this product vs others?:Fender Strat replacement parts .performed as described, amazingly!! No more fighting to stay in tune! They hold my guitar in tune and changing strings is a breeze! Play more guitar and less time tuning.replacement was as easy as loosening the nut, remove and replace easy peasy. These tuners are my new go to replacement parts! Highly RECOMMEND THESE OVER CHEAPER TYPE. SLIGHTLY COST MORE , BUT WELL WORTH THE MONEY SPENT! FIVE STAR ALL THE WAY!Quality:Is exactly 💯 what you get! More time playing my guitar less time tuning. Money we'll spent.

These were the perfect upgrade over stock tuning machines for my new Strat. Price was very reasonable for Fender-branded tuners. Keeps my strat in tune and makes string changes so much easier.They look great and "factory" quality. They are staggered in height so you could eliminate the string tree(s) on the headstock as the 3 highest (skinniest) string posts are shorter than the others to create the correct break angle over the nutGet these and swap them out at your next string change, you won't regret it!

Perfect match and simple drop ins. Makes for faster string changes and a much better tuning ratio at 18:1. Looks as good as the original standard tuners but works better IMO.

SUMMARYIf you aren't using locking tuners, you're wasting time when you restring. They are just faster and easier. Overall, this is a really nice convenience upgrade on guitars and it's not very expensive to do. Fender uses these on the American Deluxe, and once I got one, I had to have these on the rest of my stratocasters. Because they save time restringing, you are more inclined to restring frequently, which means you sound better. (Fresh strings can do a lot for your sound!) I've put these on several guitars I have, and always appreciate them when changing strings. At installation be aware these are staggered height tuners so be sure to put them in the correct holes (see below). These are drop in replacement tuners for most modern MIA and MIM Fender Stratocasters and Telecasters that use a Shaller style tuner. Fender makes these relatively cheap now in chrome, although I wish they would make them affordable and available in a gold finish. I've seen also seen nickel and black, and they make gold but hard to find and rather expensive (something like $120 a set). (Update gold is coming down in price and seems to be slightly more available. Fender also now makes "brushed chrome".FUNCTION/PURPOSEI think people believe these somehow give you more stable tuning or something but that is actually not their purpose. Proper use of a traditional non-locking tuner is just as stable. Some folks don't actually understand how to properly use traditional tuners and they don't get stable tuning as a result because they use too few or too many wraps and don't string it correctly. For those folks, these will elimiate the resulting "pings" and such. But their intended purpose is to speed string changes. I believe that some folks confuse locking tuners with a locking nut in that respect. A locking nut quite definitely makes for more stable tuning, and that's why you always find them with Floyd Rose tremolos which are made for dive bombing. But locking tuners are not really for that purpose.FIT AND INSTALLATIONRegarding fit, these have 2 little pins on the backside. If you are considering a replacement, make sure you get tuners that are the right size and configuration for your guitar so you don't have to drill the back of the neck, the tuner bores in the headstock, or use inserts. If you want to use these but don't have the little alignment holes, Stewart Macdonald makes a small drilling jig for drilling those holes. It's expensive (about $40) but not as expensive as messing up your neck or breaking the tuners when you tighten them down on ill fitting mounts. It is nearly impossible to drill those alignment pin holes correctly without a jig, and even with the jig, easy to be slightly off. These fit most newer FENDER stratocasters and tele's, both american and MIM and will be a drop in replacement with no muss and no fuss in most of those cases.Pull one of your existing tuners out and look at it before you change. If you have a squier or a knockoff you may want to measure the headstock bore and remove a tuner to look at the back mount. Maybe buy and inspect, with the knowledge you might have to return them. There is usually an exact fit drop in replacement locking tuner that can replace your standard tuner so if this isn't it, look for one in the same brand as what is on your guitar now. Be aware different tuners also have slightly different holes bored for the main peg hole.Typical neck bores for tuners (by brand) are shown on the warmoth site at [...]These are the holes that warmoth uses on custom necks when fitting tuners of various brands:- For Fender/Shaller tuners, its a two step bore, with the main portion being 25/64" and the rest at 11/32".- Vintage style tuners use 11/32"- Gotoh and Grover use a two step 13/32" to 11/32"- Sperzel uses 25/64"- Planet waves uses 13/32"Of course, if you are mechnically inclined, have the tools, and don't mind potentially drilling additional holes in your neck, you can almost fit any tuner you want on any guitar. Sometimes that means using inserts or bushings, or drilling a hole for a tiny backmount screw, or for alignment pins in different locations...but the best answer is to use a tuner that is a drop-in replacement.When installing, be sure to look at the height of the pegs on your old and these new tuners. These are not all the same length -- they have staggered heights - 3 long and 3 shorter. (I think I have also seen some sets that are 4/2 but these are 3/3.) Put the long ones in the E-A-D string holes, and the shorter ones in the G-B-HighE holes.Another tuner I really like is the planet waves self-trimming locking tuner. I bought a set of those in Black for a Fender telecaster FMT HH that did not use a typical 2-pin Fender/Schaller mount -- they are really great and not that expensive. So if these Fenders don't fit the guitar you could take a look at those.As I said, I have several sets of these fender locking tuners. I like them. But I do have one set that developed a problem with the High E tuner -- it constantly breaks High E strings (not when playing but when stringing, and tuning) so I've reached out to fender regarding a possible replacement. Nothing is perfect...hopefully they will take care of me with either a warranty replacement or an inexpensive single replacement tuner.

I didn't actually end up buying these here, but I did purchase the black version from Musician's Friend. They look fantastic, and they work even better. It's so nice to put on a new set of strings in about 3–4 minutes. Once you've gotten them stretched out well, they hold tune very well. Much better than the stock Fender tuners, which really had nothing wrong with them. Spoil and pamper yourself and your guitar. Get some of these!

Best guitar related purchase I've made yet. (Though, to be fair, I've only been playing for about a year and a half, so grain of salt.)I had them installed on a 2017 Fender Newporter Classic Acoustic/electric (six-in-line strat-like neck.) If you have one of these guitars, and you want these tuning machines on it, you will need to have holes bored out to embiggen them. You'll also need to have double pin holes drilled for the aligning/stablizing pins. (Do not try to do this yourself without a Tuner Pin Drill Jig. You will screw it up without one. Yes, you too. Really.) You'll also have to decide whether to leave the screw holes from the stock tuners open and as is, or have them filled with dowels and stained to match. (I left mine open because they're mostly covered by the new tuners anyway, and if I ever sell it, it'll be easier to drop stock tuners back into it.)They're my first set of locking tuners, so I'm pretty amazed by them. Stringing with them is so much quicker and easier than with standard or vintage tuners with all the bending and the over and the under and the winding and the winding and the stretching and the winding and the more winding. With the locking tuners you just set the angles of the holes on the post correctly (see the howto video on fender's youtube channel) stick the strings through, lock 'em down, and turn in a tightward direction. Then you're in a standard tuning when the post has only turned between quarter of a turn and 3/4 of a turn.The staggered heights seems to have improved my tone noticeably (thought I did also start trying out a new brand of strings with them, so it's hard to say how much of the improved tone is the tuners and how much is the strings.)They hold a tune much longer than my previous tuning keys too. (I bought the guitar as a refurb, and it definitely did not have the stock fender tuners on it, but still, the difference is quite noticeable.) I didn't even bother stretching the strings when I strung it, and still haven't. One of the songs I'm learning is in an open G (but with the low E tuned all the way down to C), and it's usually the last thing I do on my acoustic in my daily practice, and then I usually tune it back to standard before putting it back in the case for the night. When I pick it up the next night, it's still in tune. That was not true with my previous tuners.This is a fantastic price too, so, just stop reading, put 'em in your cart. :-)