Are there any bad side effects from putting 10's on a Mexican Strat? I just had my daughter's Mexican Telecaster set-up, the guy put 10's on it, and my kid and I love the tone and feel:?:

I have GHS Boomers TNT (10-52) on my roadworn mexican strat and it plays and sounds great!!

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i use tens cause 8's are for wimps 9's are ok but 10's r the best in my opinion i have 10's on my gibson sg, my strat, and my raven

I used 10s on my Mexican strat for the 2 years I had it ... decent tone, never had a problem. I currently use Ernie Ball 10s on my AmStd strat and likewise, no issues.

I use 10s on all my Teles too. The only two guitars I have 9s on are the HSS Strat and my SG but those are the only ones where I ever attempt any speed. In most cases, I'm going for full tone and a melodic sound and 10s are great for that while still being very playable.

'Use them on the Buddy Guy Polka Dot for 4 years now, happily (with a wound 3rd, as the maestro favours)

10s are great, I have never snapped a 10 but I snapped about 5 or 6 of the 9s in three months. I am even thinking of going to 11s as I can easily full tone bend in G minor pentatonic position 1.

10s have great tone, feel and sustain IMO.

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Modified Fender Champ600
Honer Special20 Harmonica

Make sure you do a COMPLETE SETUP!

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I didn't Lose my mind, I traded it for this guitar.

The 10s, specially with heavy wound strings give you nice fat warm tone. Here is sample, excuse my sloppy playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB-2SPjTcew

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Dumb question, but does Complete Setup =

Set Action
Adjust Neck Relief (truss rod)
Set Intonation
set pickup height

am I leaving anything off?

If those are the correct steps, in what order should this be done?

thanks, - Kong

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I would do it in this order:

Adjust Neck Relief (truss rod)
Adjust Bridge Height (for floating 1/8 inch.)
Adjust Action (string height)
Adjust Intonation
Adjust Pickup Height

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I didn't Lose my mind, I traded it for this guitar.

while we are talking about string gage. without me looking god knows how many old post could some one hel pme with some info.

I started playing guitar In 1970 up til about 1984 around the mid to late 70s i would guess, I started using Ernie Balls .08 I owned a few cheaper guitars in the 80s and 90s but didnt really play that much. Anyhow now that I went out and got my new Strats (I had all of them set up with Ernie Balls .08 extra slinky i think the name is I remember them by the color of the pack Blue) Im not getting the full sound I wanted (yes old age set in). So I was thinking on going to .09s but reading so many people use 10s could anyone let me know why?

I stretch my stings alot (alot of times two at a time)


Jimmie