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String Size on a Strat?
Poll ended at Sun Oct 14, 2012 11:58 am
8s 5%  5%  [ 2 ]
9s 37%  37%  [ 15 ]
10s 44%  44%  [ 18 ]
11s 12%  12%  [ 5 ]
12s 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
13s 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
8.5s 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
9.5s 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
10.5s 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
I have one guitar with thicker strings just for slide 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Total votes : 41
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Post subject: Re: String Size on a Strat?
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 3:17 am
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Tochai wrote:
SKcoppertele wrote:
11's on all my guitars

I concur.


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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:34 am
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9's... Took a shot with the 8's, don't like the sound. 10's were on my Gibson and Charvel, but I'll switch them also to 9's.
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:36 am
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10's pure Nickle strings for me. Considering 11's now. I use 12's on my acoustics.

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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:44 am
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FatNWeak wrote:
I use 9's at the moment. Although within the next couple of weeks I plan to start using Ernie Ball Beefy Slinky. http://www.ernieball.com/products/elect ... ckel-wound


Ironic. 11's called slinky. They take a bit of testosterone to manipulate. 8's and 9's, to me, are slinky. 10's seem regular to me, and anything higher takes two men and a boy to bend. That said, if you play jazz and don't bend much, that's different.

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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 1:48 pm
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Wish I wasn't limited to one choice.
9s for my HSS with super clean pickups.
10s for my dirtier sounding HSH.
11s for my HH with FloydRose trem.


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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 3:04 pm
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currently got .13's on my strat. i really like the extra beef in the sound, but its due a restring and i'll probably go smaller. my teles all have .11's which i tend to use as standard. cant stick anything less than .10's at all.


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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 8:33 pm
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I swear by D'Addarios: 8-38s on all my electrics and 10-46 with a wound 3rd on my acoustics.Before a gig I'd always sit and play an acoustic for as long as I could,then when I played my electric with the 8s I could bend notes almost 3 tones.

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