question gentlemen....do strats have a "traditional" string gauge? Like 9's as opposed to 10's due to a "traditional strat sound"?...I was given this info in GC when I was getting a setup

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Your Fender HSS Standard Stratocaster in Electron Blue was made at the Fender Ensenada Plant in Mexico in the Year: 2008.
Final Assembly Date: July 30th, 2008
Model Number: 013 4700 587
Serial # MZ8031252

My 2009 Standard Strat came strung with Bullet 9s. I don't know if that is "traditional" or not. That is what is spect on the Standard. Same strings on the American Standard too.

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Get your self a set a GHS Flatwounds .009-.042 the D,A,E are flatwound

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Fender uses Fender Super Bullets 250R on their AVRI 57 (see specs). I guess Fender deems these a classic sounding string‽ Sounds good on my Highway 1 Stratocaster.

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RK

2007 Fender Highway 1
2012 American Deluxe
2015 MIM Dave Murray HHH
2010 Fender Blacktop
1987 Fender Avalon Acoustic
2012 Marshall DSL 15 watt head

For quite some time now new Fenders come with 9's and I suspect 9's are prolly the most popular gauge. Most people I know use 9's. Whether that makes 9's traditional or not depends on who you talk to and how far back you want to go in defining traditional. There was a time when everyone I knew played 10's. There was a time when everyone I knew ran 12's on their acoustics. Now it seems to be 10's and 11's.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

Everything except AVRI's come with .009"s. AVRI's come with .010"s.

If you had purchased a pre-cbs strat or tele it would have come with .012"s with a wound G.

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No no and no

I may be wrong but I'm almost sure that my 04 50th Ann. American Series came with 10s.I know that where I was used to using 8s I found them a lot harder to use and changed them as soon as I got home.

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My brand new(10 days old) fat strat was stringed with 9-42.I'v switched them to LTHB 10-52.(i'm a jazzer)