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I know...slap me back to reality!!

I plan on giving them a try(the Pyramids) and I will get with everyone...

...and here I am going to try out the pyramid 0.13 set on my 360. I figure if Peter Buck uses a very similar gauge, then this is more than good enough for little old me.

I don't have any complete sets of #483, but I do have several of the original individual strings N.O.S. in bulk pack. I must have a couple dozen of the wound 'G', which is also the 'A' octave, maybe a handfull of the plain 10's. At some period, the factory was using the 13's from the #470 set for the 'B' string and 'D' octave. I have lots of these too as well as other gauges from #470 and #420. The only complete sets I have are #460. Sale or trade, whatever.

My string want list: Fender set #2100, Gretsch set #672, and I'd like to come across a complete set of Rickenbacker #420 or any of the hawaiian sets. Anybody know who made that #420 'live alloy' set? They're real stiff; you'll bust yer knuckles bendin' 'em, but they stay in tune real good. Great for short scale chord bangers!

Thread revival alert... stringing my 325/12 this morning and needed the proper gauges. Sure enough, the forum comes through once again. Thanks everyone! Cheers, JD

And I believe, to answer re: "why 12's on short scale and 10's on full scale?", that it is to keep string tension uniform/acceptable. This is a function of string size (gauge), scale length, and pitch. Here's some neat info I just googled:

http://www.noyceguitars.com/Technotes/Articles/T3.html

Imagine a 360/12 with a .010 tuned to E. Ordinary, normal, right? Now put a capo on the 3rd fret. Same string(.010), less scale length(due to capo), same tension(we didn't touch the tuning machines), higher pitch(G).

Now imagine that capo is the nut on a 325/12. It would be sounding a G with the combination of .010, short scale, regular uniform tension. Thicken the string(.012), and your pitch will go down to the standard E tuning on short scale at uniform tension.

I think that's right. Coffee and cigarettes this early make math hard.