350v63 players - what gauge strings are you using?
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I'm having a little problem with my 350V63
getting my setup the way that I want it.
My friend has the same guitar and yesterday
I played his 350V63 and his setup made the
guitar play better. Now he put D'Addario
10-46 and on my 350V63 I have Rickenbacker's
10-42. Is there a big difference Rickenbacker
and D'Addario strings? Also the two truss rods
are open all the way on mine. Does anyone have
any ideas on this problem and what can I do to
fix it. I had the same person setup my Gretsch
6128TBEE Duo Jet and my Steinberger GR4 and I
didn't have this problem. I don't know if its
the strings or that the person who set it up
just couldn't get it right. I need some help.
Lou
getting my setup the way that I want it.
My friend has the same guitar and yesterday
I played his 350V63 and his setup made the
guitar play better. Now he put D'Addario
10-46 and on my 350V63 I have Rickenbacker's
10-42. Is there a big difference Rickenbacker
and D'Addario strings? Also the two truss rods
are open all the way on mine. Does anyone have
any ideas on this problem and what can I do to
fix it. I had the same person setup my Gretsch
6128TBEE Duo Jet and my Steinberger GR4 and I
didn't have this problem. I don't know if its
the strings or that the person who set it up
just couldn't get it right. I need some help.
Lou
No other guitar sound as good as a Rickenbacker thru a Vox AC-30TBX
Re: 350v63 players - what gauge strings are you using?
Hi everyone!
I'm a proud owner of a wonderful Rickenbacker 350v63 JG, that I've bought last spring (My first RIC!!!!!!!
).
I had few time to play it and know that I'd like to play it more so I had to choose new strings.
On my other guitars (USA Strato and Epi LP) I use Ernie Ball 48-11, and I'd like to put them also on the black baby (
I realized I had to find out a name for my Rick): I don't like very much the original 10-42 gauge. Everyone had ever tried this gauge on the 350v63? Should I take the guitar to a luthier to make also a set-up with the strings change (The guitar had a so excellent set-up but with heavier strings probably it won't work)?
Good day to everyone!!
I'm a proud owner of a wonderful Rickenbacker 350v63 JG, that I've bought last spring (My first RIC!!!!!!!

I had few time to play it and know that I'd like to play it more so I had to choose new strings.
On my other guitars (USA Strato and Epi LP) I use Ernie Ball 48-11, and I'd like to put them also on the black baby (

Good day to everyone!!
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Re: 350v63 players - what gauge strings are you using?
I'm using TI flatwound 11's - I get a lot of buzzing with anything lighter, even after extensive set-up time.
Chris at POTR suggetsed the TI's and they seem to do the trick, which also really captures the "I Feel Fine" sound.
Chris at POTR suggetsed the TI's and they seem to do the trick, which also really captures the "I Feel Fine" sound.
Re: 350v63 players - what gauge strings are you using?
I use the 10-42 Curt Mangan Nickels from POTR. They last forever adn sound great. I have no buzzing issues.
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Re: 350v63 players - what gauge strings are you using?
It's strange that you have buzzing problems with light strings, I might suppose the opposite. For me the important is that someone uses heavier string gauge than the standard 42-10stringsncords wrote:I'm using TI flatwound 11's - I get a lot of buzzing with anything lighter, even after extensive set-up time.
Chris at POTR suggetsed the TI's and they seem to do the trick, which also really captures the "I Feel Fine" sound.

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I have a 350v63 in MB(Midnight Blue) that was built for NAMM. They seem pretty rare in my experience.rumbush wrote:FWIW my 350v63 is MB...I was sold when I saw Gene's. It was born in 2004![]()
Does anyone else here have a 350v63 MB? Would be interesting to get a sense of how many there are floating around this here Forum.
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Re: 350v63 players - what gauge strings are you using?
David, MB is Montezuma Brown, and Oliver's post (more than 2 years old; he's no longer active) asked for others in that color.
Midnight Blue is acronymed "MID". See the sticky on RIC abbreviations.
MID 350s are rare, too. Then there was the one-off 2009 NAMM MID 381V69, which I missed by a couple of hours at a shop here in SF...
Midnight Blue is acronymed "MID". See the sticky on RIC abbreviations.
MID 350s are rare, too. Then there was the one-off 2009 NAMM MID 381V69, which I missed by a couple of hours at a shop here in SF...
Re: 350v63 players - what gauge strings are you using?
MID 350v63s are rare????
Guess I'd better hang on to this one then.............


Guess I'd better hang on to this one then.............


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Re: 350v63 players - what gauge strings are you using?
That 350MID compliments the ironing board cover well, Aitch!
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Re: 350v63 players - what gauge strings are you using?
shamustwin wrote: That 350MID compliments the ironing board cover well, Aitch!









Re: 350v63 players - what gauge strings are you using?
I thought it was a surf board. Great Barrier reef anyone? 

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Re: 350v63 players - what gauge strings are you using?
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