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Rich Young

 

From:
Georgetown, TX, USA
Post  Posted 23 Mar 2000 4:41 pm    
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I need to go a little heavier on the strings I'm using. Right now I have
G .011
E .015
C .018
A .022
G .024
E .030
C .036
A .042
G .054
Is there a guide or some way to know, without trying every string in the strore, what gauges to go with if I kick the high G up to a .012?
I did find one source online, but it was in Europe and gave the gauges in mm.
Thanks.
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Hill Phillips

 

From:
Alma Arkansas USA
Post  Posted 23 Mar 2000 5:38 pm    
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I read your post and then miked my C6 neck
and I have a 12 for my high G and the next number higher than yours on all the rest.
The 11 sounds to tinny for me.
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Mike Ihde


From:
Boston, MA
Post  Posted 23 Mar 2000 7:05 pm    
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http://panworld.net/~johnely/index.html
TryJohn Ely's site. He has a chart for string gauges
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bill johnson

 

Post  Posted 23 Mar 2000 10:17 pm    
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Hi Rich
Go to b0b's home page. At the bottom is a link "Articals", whole section on string gauges. Right here in the forum.


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Rich Young

 

From:
Georgetown, TX, USA
Post  Posted 25 Mar 2000 10:53 pm    
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Thanks for the replys. I knew about both those places and had just forgot.
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basilh


From:
United Kingdom
Post  Posted 26 Mar 2000 4:47 am    
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Hi Rich,I DON"T recomend the string gauges described by Nick Manoloff on a little box I found in a VERY OLD guitar case I bought recently from a “Junk” shop.
Please excuse the slow load time, I just put the page together in a hurry so's you could get it tonight-although it's tommorrow here !!
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~basilh/nickmanoloff.html
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