Your string journey

Matt300ZXT said:
Sooooo, you're gonna need to come off that Strat, or at least the neck. I can give you my address and I promise to take good care of it.
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I hate strats, but fucking love that neck lol.

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I love flatwound strings because they feel smooth on my fingers and last many moons.

LaBella 9-39 Jazz Flats 4 evah! I replace the 9 with a 10 and the 11 with an 11.5 so's I don't breakum.
 
VonBonfire said:
I love flatwound strings because they feel smooth on my fingers and last many moons.

LaBella 9-39 Jazz Flats 4 evah! I replace the 9 with a 10 and the 11 with an 11.5 so's I don't breakum.
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heaviest i tried was a 12 set. not my cup o tea!
 
mentoneman said:
heaviest i tried was a 12 set. not my cup o tea!
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I haven't liked heavy gauges ever since I found out they were a great way to blow my cuticles and Greenbacks with a 100 watt Marshall driving them. The set I use is basically a jazz set for people with hand/wrist damage or who are handicapped. I'm bluesing so the slinky feel to them is great. Luxuries once sampled became necessities, lol.
 
remember the story of SRV ripping his callouses open at a gig bending his 13s, and having to crazy glue them shut and then robbing skin off his right forearm while the glue was still tacky, to provide traction on the surface of the crazy glue tips?
 
mentoneman said:
remember the story of SRV ripping his callouses open at a gig bending his 13s, and having to crazy glue them shut and then robbing skin off his right forearm while the glue was still tacky, to provide traction on the surface of the crazy glue tips?
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Yes I do. I have a permanently altered cuticle from long nights with a strat and 11-49 at Eb. Liquid skin got me through many of those nights. Another reason I switched to a shorter scale and lighter strings with a lower action. The Lord did not bless me with the kung fu grip like Stevie had so I had to find other ways to accomplish some of those multi step bends.
 
Back 35 years ago played 8s and around 2000 started to hear about folks playing 10s or even 11s more and more. So I tried 9s out of curiosity, did not like them…. And was too lazy to switch back to 8s, as the result still playing 9-42s to this day. Funny how a silly mistake can through you off for no good reason for so long.
 
mentoneman said:
almost identical evolution. pink super slinkys because everyone used them, DR because they sounded better and lasted longer, elixer 10s because they lasted forever but tone was muted/less twangy.
now d’addario XLs 9s if store bought and stringjoy hybrid set is my fave to order because i think they balance tension better, feel and sound great.

don’t play my acoustic enough to really make an educated choice so martins are my go to.
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The balanced and create your own sets are what brought me to stringjoy for my ERGs. I am absolutely a fan of NYXL like others here, and which is what I used on them before stringjoys, but I would have to buy multiple sets to create one set that worked for me. As far as acoustics go, it's more of maintaining a balanced sound $$ or adding warmth $$$ or brightness $. So the costs do kind of vary there.
 
VonBonfire said:
Yes I do. I have a permanently altered cuticle from long nights with a strat and 11-49 at Eb. Liquid skin got me through many of those nights. Another reason I switched to a shorter scale and lighter strings with a lower action. The Lord did not bless me with the kung fu grip like Stevie had so I had to find other ways to accomplish some of those multi step bends.
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you my friend are gnarly.

PSA,

Stringjoy has a tele giveaway going on this month so good time to try them!

https://stringjoy.com/
 
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower said:
The balanced and create your own sets are what brought me to stringjoy for my ERGs. I am absolutely a fan of NYXL like others here, and which is what I used on them before stringjoys, but I would have to buy multiple sets to create one set that worked for me. As far as acoustics go, it's more of maintaining a balanced sound $$ or adding warmth $$$ or brightness $. So the costs do kind of vary there.
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so are you using Stringjoy acoustic sets too?
 
mentoneman said:
this seems to be a trend!
can’t tell you how many EB 9s i’ve popped in my lifetime!
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It's funny because when I setup my 2 EBMM's with D'Addario's I have to think about it for a minute LOL. Love the guitars but not a fan of the strings.
 
mentoneman said:
you my friend are gnarly.

PSA,

Stringjoy has a tele giveaway going on this month so good time to try them!

https://stringjoy.com/
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That's a nice looking tele!!!

I just ordered strings a couple days ago but Strings by Mail has my LaBella set for 10 bucks cheaper than everywhere else. I always order bulk plain strings from juststrings.com and they are a great string in and of themselves. I haven't tried string joy before...
 
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