I have an electric guitar, ibanez, looks like a strat but with one humbucker and 2 single coilovers. and no I don't have one of those locking tuner things. when I was at the music store buying my guitar the salesperson told me they would be a bad idea for my first guitar because it would make it much more difficult to tune and change strings. do you think higher gauge strings would be better? I play in dropped d and dropped d-flat tunings alot.