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Post subject: Factory supplied string confusion (brass ball-ends)
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 1:48 am
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Last year I bought a Fender American Special Telecaster and just loved the stock strings. The website lists the supplied strings as Fender Super NPS 9-42 so I bought a new set to replace them and the tension feels completely different, the guitar is buzzy and rattly and if feels like it needs to be set-up from scratch, as if I'd drastically changed gauges!

The factory supplied strings had brass ball-ends. The replacement pack of strings had D'Addario style colour-coded ends.

I thought that the new Fender strings might all have coloured ends now (as they are made at the D'Addario factory now) but I just bought a brand-new 2012 model Squier Vintage Modified Jazzmaster and that came with brass ball ends.

Where can I buy the strings with the brass-ball ends that come supplied with new guitars. I really like them!

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Post subject: Re: Factory supplied string confusion (brass ball-ends)
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 4:13 am
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Do the new strings feel thinner......?
It could be the original strings were actually 10's instead of 9's, and the reason they feel completely different......

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Post subject: Re: Factory supplied string confusion (brass ball-ends)
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 4:14 pm
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I don't think that they were 10s. I tried some D'Addario 10s on there after the Fender Supers and the tension was much higher. Some non-standard tunings I use involve me bringing the G string up two steps to an A and the 10s felt way harder to bend in that tuning.

I think that the originals were 9s, just maybe not the 250Ls that I had assumed.


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