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Derek up North · Post by **Derek up North** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:09 am

Ian B wrote:Recently moved to 11's never thought this would happen. F#ck, many moons ago I'm sure I used to use 8's, you just can't get these today, or at least they are incredibly rare. Did they really exist?

I buy 9's and file them down

Regards,

Derek.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:21 am

Ian B wrote:Recently moved to 11's never thought this would happen. F#ck, many moons ago I'm sure I used to use 8's, you just can't get these today, or at least they are incredibly rare. Did they really exist?

when I was a kid I used 8's on my tele custom...to play metal....

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:25 am

Sleek Month wrote: I just put a set of elixers (That I found on my floor)and I hate them. They sound all bright and tinny, and the goofy wrapping is coming off of the D string from strumming.

Pure crap, and expensive at that.

Yeah, I totally agree, overpriced crap.
Let alone my strings never get rusty as I'm breaking them before, so the coating wouldn't make sense anyways.

Anyways, 10-46 on long scales in standard tuning, 11-52 (plain G) on short scales in standard tuning and long scales in lower tuning (hardly ever do that).
Usually D'Addarios, they feel nice and tight.
12's on the steel string and Augustine Blue on the nylon.

Don't like that whimpy 09 stuff. Real strings for real men.

egbert · Post by **egbert** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:32 am

I play strats and used D'Addario 46 -10s for a long time but after trying the 52-10 set decided that it had much better bass and the higher tension in the bass seemed better for my plectrum technique. Clean sounds really benefit from the extra beef in the strings IMO. 11 gauge top E strings sustain and sound better too so I ended up making composite sets 52, 42, 30, 18(plain), 14, 11 and have stuck with that for about 7 years or so.

Lately I get a Dean Markley set that comes with these gauges out of the box. One advantage is that if you use 53-12s on a steel string acoustic you have the finger strength there even if you are mostly playing electric - not so with light electric strings. Another is durability - the heavier set holds up a lot longer and almost never breaks.

Morgaxx · Post by **Morgaxx** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:56 am

HiQ's are some sort of Japanese poetry, no?

tomg · Post by **tomg** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:02 am

9s on the electrics, 10s on the 335, 12s on the acoustics. Gibon strings if I can find them, Ernie Ball in a pinch.

Yes 8s did exist. I broke a bunch before going back to 9s. Remenber the Fender Bullet strings that you had to pry out of the tail piece.

I almost never break strings unless I'm playing the Les Paul or 335, sometimes on the L6. I hit my palm on the string across the bridge just right and there it goes. Seems to be a Gibson thing.

The Strats all lock, it's very rare to break those even though they are set up to whammy up two full steps. The Tele can hold a set a full year before my fingers start to bleed.

The D18 also keeps it's strings a long time. I keep putting those $40 bronze D'Addario's on it because it rings like a grand piano. I can't bring myself to replace them very often. The Alvarez gets Gibsons.

My bass player showed me a trick years ago. I've wondered about how smart this actually is but it does work so I do it anyway from time to time.

WARNING!! Be very careful do not breath hydrogen peroxide fumes, get it on your skin or in your eyes. You have been warned.

If your strings go dead and they cost a lot of money (like bass strings)you can clean out the oil and crud by boiling them in hydrogen peroxide.

Use rubber gloves to handle everything! Use a hot plate in a well ventilated area. Bring to a boil and cook about 1 min. Clean and dry. You can do this more that once but eventually they will go completely dead and it won't work.

Reagrds

dry bones · Post by **dry bones** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:39 am

Rotosound Yellow 10-46 on electric, Phosphor Bronze 10-50 on acoustic

Glooper · Post by **Glooper** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:10 am

whatever the ones are in the yellow ernie ball slinky sets.. which I can't remember... 10s I think

Ben

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:25 am

cat gut

Raven · Post by **Raven** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:42 am

Kriminal wrote:cat gut

Home made

(EDIT:) now we know why Kriminal goes out pussy hunting

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:34 pm

Raven wrote:
Kriminal wrote:cat gut
Home made

(EDIT:) now we know why Kriminal goes out pussy hunting

he seems to have been interupted mid post...do you suppose the cat gut his tongue...

jens · Post by **jens** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:45 pm

- 10-50 on my J&D strat-style 7string (but humbuckers instead of single coils)

- 11-50 on my Ibanez Artcore

- 13-56 on my Godin Radiator

- dunno what exactly is on my dreadnaught as I haven't had to replace them yet...

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:30 pm

Sascha Franck wrote:
Sleek Month wrote: I just put a set of elixers (That I found on my floor)and I hate them. They sound all bright and tinny, and the goofy wrapping is coming off of the D string from strumming.

Pure crap, and expensive at that.
Yeah, I totally agree, overpriced crap.
Let alone my strings never get rusty as I'm breaking them before, so the coating wouldn't make sense anyways.

Anyways, 10-46 on long scales in standard tuning, 11-52 (plain G) on short scales in standard tuning and long scales in lower tuning (hardly ever do that).
Usually D'Addarios, they feel nice and tight.
12's on the steel string and Augustine Blue on the nylon.

Don't like that whimpy 09 stuff. Real strings for real men.

first I agree about elixers..but I wonder what takes more finesse...heavy or lite strings...wimpy surely isn't the word I would use...I think that it takes more precision to play with light strings. However bending heavy strings does take brute force...both SRV and Gary Moore had/have use .013 and both could/can bend like mad...both very talented guitarists...

mckenic · Post by **mckenic** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:30 pm

10s on both Electrics and on my Dads (hehe) acoustic. Dunno what the f**k is on my Classical...

I tried flat wound 9s on the Gretsch and liked them fine - until I changed back to standard 10s - MUCH more bite

Dave

egbert · Post by **egbert** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:48 pm

mckenic wrote:I tried flat wound 9s on the Gretsch and liked them fine - until I changed back to standard 10s - MUCH more bite

Going from a .009 to a .010 is more than a 20% increase in mass per unit length (factor of increase = 100/81) so you could expect a correspondingly big jump in signal from the pickup. The increase on the other plain strings is a little smaller but still pretty significant.

GUITARISTS...string gauges