10 gauge on a stunt guitar?

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Short and sweet.

Do you guys ever string your full locking floyd rose exes with 10 gauge strings?

I've been playing my new Indie with 11 gauge strings for a while now and picking up the old Jem77FP with 9 gauge, the strings feel like spider webs...

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FM
 
Oh, sure, I've put 10's on a full locker. Worked okay for me...
 
I use light top and heavy bottom - 10's on EAD and 9's on GBE. I used to use 10's on the whole thing though. I have an Ibanez RG BTW.
 
I use whatever I want.


People who play in drop C for metal or whatever, do you think that they are using 9's? no. Throw what ever set of strings you think will fit what you'll be playing, set up your floyd rose, play your guitar.



:)

happy playing, bud :D
 
Currently, I'm running 10-68 on my UV7PWH. I went as high as 11-68 for a while, before dropping back because I was having a bit of trouble with step-and-a-half bends.

It's just what feels right to me. :)
 
I use 10-46 on all my electrics--that includes the two with Floyd Rose setups.
 
agreed...10-46 is pretty standard. i rock the super bullets on the strat, and d'addarios on the parker....and then my fatstrat is a completely different story; d'addario EJ21's on that bitch...called "light jazz" when in reality they're like 12 gauges lol
 
ocnor said:
Same here. I don't understand how some of these people can play those coat hanger gauge strings.
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Once upon a time (in a galaxy far, far away...) I played 8's!! I think I'm gonna take a couple of my guits, maybe the semi-hollow and the tele, and try 11's. The jump from 9 to 10 took a bit of getting used to, but the improvement in tone was immediate.
 
WhiteStrat said:
Once upon a time (in a galaxy far, far away...) I played 8's!! I think I'm gonna take a couple of my guits, maybe the semi-hollow and the tele, and try 11's. The jump from 9 to 10 took a bit of getting used to, but the improvement in tone was immediate.
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I started out with 8's too, a long long time ago. I loved 'em 'cause they were just so damned easy to play. But I moved through 9 's to standard 10-46 sets and the tone and sustain is vastly superior to the 8's.

I have one cheap guitar (a Strat clone) with a stubborn neck and I may thow some 11's or 12's on it just for shits and giggles.
 
I use 10's on my 25.5" scale gits but on my Gibson types with the 24.75" scale feel, 10's feel real 'rubbery' to me so I use 11's on those.

I have no Flyd Rose git so I don't know about that but I don't see where that would affect what guages I use since I'm mainly wanting them to feel right to my fingers.
 
Zaphod B said:
I started out with 8's too, a long long time ago. I loved 'em 'cause they were just so damned easy to play.
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I briefly flirted with strings as light as 7's. :eek:

I generally have 10's with very heavy bass strings on my 7's, and 11s on my 6's (12's on my acoustic). I have a pretty heavy picking hand, and feel like I phrase better on heavier strings. Also, once you're used to them, they're really not THAT hard to bend.
 
I have a 60's hollowbody electric that had some neck problems... I was putting a 7-string set of 9's on it, and the high-e string popped. So, the next string BECAME the high e, so now it has... 11's. With a wound G.

Hey, it works.
 
Stunt guitar. that's funny.

I am doing some work on my "stunt guitar". It has a floyd and started life as a kramer focus. the neck is on another project. I bought a mighty mite neck off ebay that was a total shitpiece. It's big as a ball bat and the fretwork kind of sucks. I am hacking it down to a V and trying a fret level.

It is my intent to use 9s, though. I have used 10s on the floyd for a long time and it just seems that the action of it is kind of stiff. When you have the 3 springs balancing the 10s, it just puts so much resistance on the bar that I can't really do what it is that I have a floyd for. So, I have 2 sets of 9s in a drawer from I don't know how long ago. After I get this thing whittled down, I'll commit to stringing it up as a "stunt guitar" and not play it like the rest of my guitars.

I use 11s on most of them now. I still have 10s on my strat. I paid for a good setup a couple years ago and I am waiting for it to go to shit. Then I'll slap those 11s on there.
 
A set of 10s will be well within the range of string gauges that a Floyd Rose will accept. I think it's going to be the nut that'll be the limiting factor of how thick of a set of strings you can put on your guitar. Floyds are so adjustable that there isn't much one can't accomodate. But I've broken the nut on a guitar from putting too thick of strings on it.

I play all of my electrics strung with 11s. I just like the tone of the higher tension for some reason. There's a growl there that I never got with 9s or 10s. And I've been playing them for so long that they feel totally normal. Bending has never been an issue.
 
Kingofpain678 said:
People who play in drop C for metal or whatever, do you think that they are using 9's? no.
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I play in drop C or more often D standard. I use hybrids. 9, 11, 16, 26, 36 ,46. So it's kinda like half a pack of 9s and half a pack of 10s.

I've actually started using hybrids long before I started detuning my guitar. I didn't like the thickness of 10s on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd strings, and I always used to break my 4th, 5th and 6th strings.

That's my six string, it doesn't have a Floyd but it does having a floating trem. My 7 string (which I rarely play these days) does have a Floyd. That's tuned to A usually. I use hybrids on that too, and then buy the next string down, based on the progression from a set of 10s, as a single.
 
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