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Post by samspade on Jan 17, 2022 14:35:22 GMT -5
not sure if anyone else does this, but I find that some guitars work best with a certain gauge. I'm usually using 10's and 11's, but more lately a few with 9's, and one each with 8's and 12's. Like if setup and everything is right, but still not a good feel, i try other gauges.
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Post by gbfun on Jan 19, 2022 5:47:07 GMT -5
Wow. That's quite a range. But thanks for the idea ! I'll pay more attention to this. I mostly have 9-42 or 9-42 tuned down and one 12-60. And a couple of unknowns. Since I don't do extreme bends I should be able to put anything on anything without too much issue I think. What on earth did you put the 8s on ? That must seem like fingering sewing threads ! I'm already having problems breaking strings...(14 in the last 2 months !) This could be a Karma issue of some sort...or maybe I need thicker strings ?
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Post by samspade on Jan 19, 2022 19:53:44 GMT -5
Hey gbfun, the 8's were the weirdest for me. I put on a scalloped warmoth neck after hearing about Billy Gibbons, Rhoads, Iommi, Yngwie, Page. Light touch, but I haven't broken a string in the set, and really overbending too. Tone didn't suffer. I have the 12's tuned standard on a '62 vintage RI strat and it rings like an acoustic. I feel 12's keep you honest, like do you really want to overplay/bend lol.
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Post by gbfun on Jan 21, 2022 3:02:32 GMT -5
Yeah. My 12s keep me sliding in an attempt to overplay my bends ! I'm not a fan of overplaying bends myself so it's nice to see someone else notices such stuff. I'll have to try some 12s on a Strat and see how it goes now. I've got 12-60 on an Epi LP tuned down because I couldn't sing a certain song unless I lowered it. Now I kinda like the tuned down sound for certain things. Geez...you and some other guys were saying the 8s still had decent tone so now I'll have to try them and see. Maybe they'll turn me into a bending fool ! Hmm....12s on a Strat might be great for clean rhythm I think. Might be tough for bar chords though. 8s on a scalloped neck ? That could be tough for me to stay in TUNE. I do NOT play with a light touch. I might though, if I lived another 50 years !
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Post by Ragtop on Jan 21, 2022 9:21:56 GMT -5
I played 60 gigs in three years, and maybe 150 rehearsals, with my Deluxe Strat, and broke one string.
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Post by gbfun on Jan 22, 2022 4:50:22 GMT -5
(perhaps you only play with a slide ? So....the obvious question is...what brand and size are the strings on your Deluxe Strat ?
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Post by WireDog on Feb 14, 2022 22:29:25 GMT -5
Pretty often and…You did this!!
I’ve been getting deep into upgrading to bone nuts and finessing my bridges over the past few years. This has made tremendous improvements in my guitars, but it’s hell on strings during the process.
Lately, I’ve homed in on finessing the saddles on Tune-o-matics, even getting un-slotted saddles, a string gauge, and filing the slots myself in a slightly wider spread.
All the loosening and retightening the strings, as I file away on the nut or bridge, recheck, and file again, fatigues the strings and one will break.
It’s all your fault-you know who you are! It’s an obsession, but I’ll never stop tinkering!
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Post by Taildragger on Feb 14, 2022 23:43:44 GMT -5
I play bass and string everything with flats, so... Not much of a problem here.
Now, when I was playing guitar and used Super Slinkies way back...that was a different matter.
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Post by MoJoe on Feb 15, 2022 13:36:36 GMT -5
Also flats only, basses and guitars. Zero breakage.
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Post by Leftee on Feb 15, 2022 15:06:37 GMT -5
I’m at 8s on 25.5” and 9s on 24.75”.
And I don’t know why I didn’t do this years ago.
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Post by LeftyMeister on Feb 15, 2022 16:01:04 GMT -5
I played 11's for decades and switched to 10's around 5 years ago. It made the feel and subtle bends so much better.
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Post by Leftee on Feb 15, 2022 16:10:14 GMT -5
Years back at a basement jam I was handed someone's pointy Floydy thing strung with 8's. Within the first minute I broke 2 strings at the same time. It was like it was strung with Angel Hair pasta. I was playing 11's at the time. The light touch it takes to play 8's just doesn't compute to me. I should probably set up one of my guitars with them just to learn. I do use 9s on my Jackson and Charvel with the FR… even though the guitars are Fender scale. It makes the wing-wang bars happier.
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Post by hushnel on Feb 20, 2022 13:28:50 GMT -5
I use flats on the fretless basses, about half of them are, the rest get round wounds, 9s on the tele, 11s or 12s on the acoustics. I rarely break a string, more often on the bench than when playing. The only time I ever had a bass string brake was when I had no spare with me. Since I started carrying a back up set it’s never happened again.
I like the 10s to replace the string on my cheese slicer. I figure that’s why they give ya two Es in a set. I’ve been thinking of building a 5 slice cheese slicer, it would need a dedicated block because of the tuning machines. I’m not sure why I would need a 5 slice cheese slicer but I gotta do something with all the crappy tuning machines. A few years back I put a set of Waverlys on the Martin 000-15. The stock tuners would make a great cheese slicer. Probably make it a Slot head cheese slicer with the 1930 Martin OM-45 Torch inlay. Wood selection will be critical. I probably shouldn’t use any of the Brazilian Rosewood. I’ve been saving it for fingerboards. Ebony would help the inlay pop. Geno sent me some cool wood cuts offs, I bet I can find the perfect pice in that box.
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