I usually do buy my strings in bulk online, but my truss rod needed to be adjusted, and I have to take the neck off to do that, and I was out. BTW, I went to that store to grab something in the closest gauge 11-49, I look at the rack behind the counter, and there are the strings I called for in the first place, so they did have them. I hate calling GC, of Daddy's in the northeast, they suck over the phone, can never answer any questions about whats in stock, you get there, and they cant answer any questions in person either.

all you need to do is loosen your strings and put a capo on the first fret. Hey presto no need for the strings to come off.

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Same here.

I went to stringsandbeyond.com. I was looking for the GHS David Gilmour strings just to try them and really ended up liking them. Its a really unique gauge but unfortunately not one single local store stocked them.

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I have read about them buying the Squier string company but I thought that was more for the name. You know how we all have seen factory pictures of amps and guitars in production but I do not recall ever seeing strings. I thought they may out source that production.

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