I'm having 13's put on my strat this week because I like heavy strings! Anyone else out there share my love for heavy manly strings!

I can't say I love heavy strings because its hard getting used to the bend. I hope you adjusted your nut slots, because they'll bind like crazy. Just wait until you start having tuning issues...

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Manly strings almost destroyed my hands.It was stupid and the difference in tone wasn't worth the damage to my hands. Manhood isn't measured by string gauge.

guys. big strings are manly, and big tone is boss. I wuld just worry about someone srewing up during the nut slot widening

A wannabe Bass Player

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I used 13's for a few years until I started having issues with my hands (health issues not from playing heavy strings) and went back to using 9's or 10's. No noticeable change in my tone.

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

Trying to compensate for something are we?

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Us jazz players are always claiming that heavier gauge strings will improve your tone...

it's bullshit

It will however help with fret buzz...

Better hope you have a very nice strong neck joint...
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really the n i gues hendrix isnt a man

Wear down those dunlops!

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Here's a test of manhood, I believe any strat player out there would agree Jimi Hendrix is one of the greatest strat players ever, if not the best.... Here's a guy that Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, and scores of others loved to play and sound like... Not bad considering he used 9 gauge banjo strings going through a pair of 100W marshall stacks. Stevie Ray Vaughan had to use heavy strings to get that same monster tone through the Fender amps....

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Jimi and a lot of other great guitarists used extra or super light gauge strings,John Lennon 8s or 9s Tony Iommi 8s and I was reading an interview in a guitar mag the other day(I forget which one and even which guitarist)and this guy used 7s-I didn't know they existed.I've used 8-38 for about 35 yrs and get great tone and can bend halfway across the neck to get some screamin' leads.

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I played last Thursday for around 6 hrs non-stop and alot of that was lead. We had one 1/2 hr break to wolf down some food, that's it... I was using .10s. I have really heavy callouses. Well my fingers really started hurting. The next day my hand muscles were like sore. Fingertips hurt.I guess I am just not manly enough! But I can't imagine having done that with .13s!!!!! no way!

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I've read where on numerous occasions Stevie would drop back a couple of gauges because his hands got too sore and he had Super Glue on finger tips because the callouses had ripped off, or underneath a fingernail had ripped away from the pressure of bending.

By accounts I've read, his hands were as strong as a vice with muscles and tendons like steel cables and he still had to back off at times, so good luck to mere mortals trying to tread the same path!

Although Stevie would have been too humble to admit it, we all know his tone would still have been huge on a Chinese Strat strung with 8's.



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Snowy