Which way?

You either know how to do it or you don't. For those of us who don't, we entrust others to do it but that doesn't mean they know for sure. I'm talking about the direction of your string winding round the machine heads.

References these days are quick & easy, if you still can't bring yourself to at least check how it's done, why should we give you the considerations? 

Round the post

These are posts from non-locking tuners (machine heads to some of us). Note the number of string turns.

These are posts from non-locking tuners. There are obviously more turns seen here.

I recently came across a guitar sporting locking tuners but the owner wrapped rounds of string at the posts & when queried, the answer was, "To promote grip."

FYI, if the tuners are of the locking variety, there is already a mechanism in there to grip/clamp the strings, to make them stay put so there will be no slippage when you tune your instruments. The non-locking version requires more turns round the posts to emulate this grip. If you insist on doing rounds of strings there for the locking version, to put it simply, you don't know what you are doing. So how much string length is good for the locking version? My simple answer to this will be: Enough to address any sharp/ flat responses during tuning. From my personal experience, one round is enough. :-)

You love death?

Also in the spotlight this time, Rob Flynn's (Machine Head) Epiphone baritone Flying V, Love/Death model- interesting graphics... Remember, it's a baritone instrument (27" scale length) but I believe it won't be a case of an impossible adaptation.

But I personally find the matching hard case more intriguing.

Machine Head: Unto the Locust

In the 1990s, Machine Head was the saving grace of metal as the world was then drowning in the anti-guitar melodrama & its grunge associations, this band stood firm choosing to peddle sheer heaviness above all else. The band lost this plot along the way as they succumbed to the more popular metalcore (oh gosh, I hate branding music this way) culture but 2007's The Blackening was a firm resurgence of the quartet's heavy beliefs. It got me listening & it got me anticipating this 2011 release. Verdict? The first few numbers here are downright heavy but the later songs resurfaced the out-of-place, diluted, metal which got them ignored by fans of Burn My Eyes, for instance. This is why I've deleted some songs in my MP3 playlist & left the heavy numbers in tact. Not a bad performance by Machine Head but fans like yours truly here, would re-listen to Burn My Eyes & The Blackening just to reinforce the belief that Machine Head could be lethal performers should they be in the right mood. Waiting for their next right mood in the mean time.