any suggestions for locking tuners on a 2006 fender strat MIM left handed?

Schaller or Sperzel. Both work great but personally, I prefer the Sperzel.

Thanks. Do I need to do any work to the holes to make locking tuners fit?

I pit the schallers on my 2008 MIM and love them. You won't have to do anything to the guitar to install them. Just make sure the right tuners go in the proper holes in the headstock.

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2008 Fender MIM Stratocaster
2010 Epiphone Masterbilt
2009 Fender Super Champ XD

Both Schaller and Sperzel locking tuners (and some non-lockers I seem to recall) have locator pins on the back to position them, rather than a screw hole on the side.

People sometimes get confused about how to find the exact right spot to drill the hole for that little pin, which is necessary to get the tuners to go on in a straight row. Nothing more unsightly than crooked tuners, and you only have one shot at getting it right.

Help is on hand. Near the bottom of this long page (and over onto the next) Ron Kirn shows a way of doing it that is as good as any:

http://www.ronkirn.com/tutorial/strat_tutorial5.htm

Follow that and you shouldn't go wrong.

Cheers - C

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I used Sperzels on one Strat. Fitted just fine into the existing tuner holes. I made sure I got the ones with graduated height posts, in the hope that I could ditch the string trees. No such luck - they were still needed in order to get enough string pressure on the nut.

They work just fine though, no problems. Bit expensive maybe..

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