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Post subject: String Guages
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 12:55 pm
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Hello All,

i recently purchased an American deluxe Tele(WOW what a guitar!)

i mentioned to the friend who i brought it from that i will be changing the string guage from the standard 9's to 10's. He said no no no no don't do that because you change the tonal characteristics for the tele. does the Fender company use 9's for that reason? will in fact the tone change that drastically. i enjoy the sounf i am getting with the 9's i just prefer 10's but not at the cost of tone.

please advise on your thoughts and experiences.

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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:52 pm
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If there is any tonal differences it will prob be for the better. Every Tele player I know uses 10's. What there will be a difference in is the obvious, string tension and a minor adjustment to the bridge may be in order but I definitely think 10's ARE the way to go.

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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:56 pm
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The generally received wisdom is "heavier strings - better tone". They are harder on the fingers but every guitar mag I read says go for the heavier strings and the reward is better tone. My guitar teacher describes his strings as anchor ropes!

Risk the price of a set of strings - you can always go back.

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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:57 pm
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Celtic Cyclonus wrote:
If there is any tonal differences it will prob be for the better. Every Tele player I know uses 10's. What there will be a difference in is the obvious, string tension and a minor adjustment to the bridge may be in order but I definitely think 10's ARE the way to go.

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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:07 pm
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Well, Jim Campilongo uses 9's so I'm sticking with them on my Am. Deluxe.

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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:05 pm
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I use 8-38s on my Tele and still get great tone.A buddy of mine who plays in the provinces top country band uses 8s exclusively on his Tele as he does steel guitar sounding riffs on it(quite amazing too I might add)and he absolutely won't use anything else but he uses 10s on every other electric he has.

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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 5:53 am
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820ray wrote:
The generally received wisdom is "heavier strings - better tone".
...and that is wrong because "better" is subjective.

This has been discussed to death and there are other elements that contribute to the overall sound of an electric guitar that affect the net result much more than string gauge.

There are plenty of well known players that don't use heavy strings and they achieve tones that a lot of players attempt to emulate.


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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 6:54 am
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Tell your freind it's your guitar and put 10's on it.

I find 10's give the Tele a little more "boom" with the upper strings, and with the great tone of a Tele, adding this "boom" just makes this great tone a little fuller, bolder.

Also get a set with a wound G string.

A plain G string on an electric goes thud, a wound goes BING !!!!


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as with all the post above me, it's only my opinion, but you can try 10's with NO HARM and see what YOU think. You don't have to mess up any intonation, relief, action to try it and strings are cheap. If you like the tone and playability, then do a set up.



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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:44 pm
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I find that D'Addario plain Gs have lots of "bing" and "ping" they are very bright and have lots of sustain plus they're much easier to bend to obtain steel guitar type effects and for doing above the nut bends,something that's very hard(at least for me)to do on a wound G.But then again as thousands have said it's all very subjective but I was just stating what my experiences are.

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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 1:52 pm
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I'm with guitslinger on this, as I do lots of bending and prefer light strings for that. I wouldn't consider a wound G, but that's just me and everyone is different.

There's no right answer to this question. Some guys like eights and some like thirteens. Play what feels and sounds best to you.

I'm sticking with D'addario XLs, .009 - .042.


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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:27 pm
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I also use 10's on my tele but use whatever feels good to you and you can't go wrong!!


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EB 10s on my HWY 1 and EB 9s on the custom II with the P90s

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Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 10:56 am
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This subject has good arguments on both sides and the truth is anyones guess. Billy Gibbons who has one of the greatest tones ever was of the school the more metal the thicker the tone. I read an interview with him not to long ago where he said he was touring with one of the old blues greats as I cant remember the name at the moment who told him to try 8s and that is what he has been using over the last decade. Stevie used 13s, Hendrix 9s, page 9s with an 8 on the high E, Brian May 8s, Beck 11s, Clapton,10s, Santana 10s, Vanhalen 9s. The guys I mentioned are all famous for there tone so what sounds and feels best to you should be your choice.

Most country Tele players use 8s more for the ease of pedal steel bends, a lot that require using your index finger which has no support than for tone reasons.


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Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:27 pm
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I am a 9-42s guy. I found that as I got older and played more and got a lighter touch as I got older I was able to get the tone from 9's that I never did in the past. To really add to the debate, I really like the Fender Super 250 Ls...great feel and tone for me. BUT, this is just my opinion and what works for me! :D


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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:01 am
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I like the tone of 9s on my Tele (used them for 1 year). The tone is more piercing and twangy and really... thinner, but it was thin in a good way to me.

But I switched back to 10s after I started to play slide almost 1 year ago. I just had to go back to the 10s I had been using for 7 years because the slide wasn't liking the thinner strings that much hehehe. So 10s are a good middle-ground, and I don´t find it much harder to bend than 9s.

8s definitely not for me, I tried them once.


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