Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I have 12s on my jag - but that's out of necessity, the neck is chronically back-bowed and 12s bring it into true. The 12s sound nice and chimey.

Right now, my guitars are strung up like this:
Strat: D'Addario nickel wound .011 gauge strings
Tele: D'Addario nickel-wound .010 gauge strings
1997: Curt Mangan nickel-wound .010 gauge strings with wound "G" (the "G" being a salvaged CM string from my 360/12V64)
360/12V64: Thomastik-Infeld Jazz/Swing flatwound 12-string set

Might keep it this way for a while. The wound "G" works on a hollowbody and is better for Jazz and the like. The plain "G" works for the solid bodies because I tend to do more bends on them.

whojamfan wrote:had 9s on it once for 5 min and couldn't believe how awful that felt.

I have .011 TI on my 360 and .010 TI on my 340. At work they had a couple of guitars with .008 and... uhm... it cost a few strings...

I used 10s with a wound G for about 25 plus years. For the past few months, I've been using 11s on all of my guitars (including my 360). I their stiffer feel helps playbility for me, when I dig in while playing fast runs.

I typically use 11s (flatwounds) on my guitars.

kingblud wrote:Hope it's OK to bump up an older post. I was curious if anyone else plays 11s or higher on everything EXCEPT their Ric. I've spent a few days going to war with my Tele and Strat, banging out chords with 11s, wondering why I don't have them on my Ric

I've got my Peavey Strat-copy strung up 0.013-0.056. I recently levelled the frets, so the action is nice and low with a minimum of buzz. Easy to play, yet with some nice resistance.

Okay, that's not completely honest: I set it up with 0.012's to loan out to a friend for a gig. It'll get 0.013's (or maybe even heavier) when it comes back to me. MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!

- Scott

I've used a D'Addario .010 round wound set on my 330/12 for years and just recently replaced the .017 G with a wound .020. I've been very happy with the sound and playability (my Rickenbacker has the original factory hi gains). I did buy a round wound Curt Mangan .010 set from Chris Clayton at POTR not too long ago. But I haven't restrung yet.

For the record, I use an Ernie Ball .010 set on my Stratocaster and a D'Addario Chrome (flat wound) .012 set on my Guild X-170. I don't do a lot of bending on the Rickenbacker, but the .010's allow for occasional (mostly half step) bends. I hate changing strings, so I try to bend only when absolutely necessary.

Robert