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When stringing a guitar, you have to turn the tuners dozens and dozens of times to get the string wound properly. If you do this with your fingers, it takes a long time and can be annoying. With the Dunlop Pegwinder, you stick it over the end of the tuner peg and it gives you a much larger handle that you can easier spin quickly to wind up the string.

Since it can be awkward to hold the string in place with some tension while tightening the tuner head, you can some time get the string wound poorly around the tuner (overlapping, etc.). When using the pegwinder, since you can wind much more quickly, it is easier to get the string wound smoothly and in the proper position.

The pegwinder is light, small enough to fit in the storage compartment in most electric or acoustic guitar cases (maybe about 3” long), and made of durable plastic. I’ve had mind for almost 10 years. Since it is plastic, it doesn’t seem to scratch or otherwise damage the tuning heads.

I haven’t tried any competing products, but it’s such a simple device that it’s hard to imagine any one being much better or worse than the other. That said, Dunlop themselves offer a new Ergo Stringwinder model with a goofy looking “ergonomic” handle. The website claims that “…design lends itself to minimizing wrist fatigue incorporating the bulkier handle for a more natural grip along with the smoother rotational action.” You’d have to be a pretty hard-core roadie to be changing enough guitar strings to get a repetitive-strain-injury.