Went to 12s and 13s

[Clint 55]

I piece together custom sets of daddario singles. They have everything. The only constraint is with flatwounds the only 2 options you have for a 6th string is 52 or 56, so I had to base my balanced set of 12s and 13s around those.

[JOLLY]

I thought this thread was going to be about the the ages of your new girlfriends.

[Clint 55]

What? No!

[ItsaBass]

I don't even think I've seen a .15 gage high e being sold in a store.

You've never been given the drawer of single strings in a music store? You're missing out!

My set was put together from single Ernie Ball strings. Actually, I might still have a backup set...probably very corroded from sitting around for 20 years.

I don't remember every string, but I remember most of them:

E – .058
A – .048
D – .038
G – ???
B – ???
E – .015

[GuitarStv]

You've never been given the drawer of single strings in a music store? You're missing out!

My set was put together from single Ernie Ball strings. Actually, I might still have a backup set...probably very corroded from sitting around for 20 years.

I don't remember every string, but I remember most of them:

E – .058
A – .048
D – .038
G – ???
B – ???
E – .015

You sure you didn't grab the E and A from your drawer of bass strings? : P

[JB_From_Hell]

Strung up my Tele with a bunch of odd singles I had laying around: 13, 17, 22p, 38, 48, 59. Standard tuning.

Tightened the truss rod about 1/4 turn, did a setup with relatively low action, sounds killer. Played for about half an hour, it’s obviously not as easy to play as the 10-52 set that was on it, but the plain strings sound glorious, as does slide. Now where near as hard to play as one would think.

I’m gonna give it a few weeks and see if I end up dropping to 11s, or stringing my Strat the same way.

[Lewguitar]

Strung up my Tele with a bunch of odd singles I had laying around: 13, 17, 22p, 38, 48, 59. Standard tuning.

Tightened the truss rod about 1/4 turn, did a setup with relatively low action, sounds killer. Played for about half an hour, it’s obviously not as easy to play as the 10-52 set that was on it, but the plain strings sound glorious, as does slide. Now where near as hard to play as one would think.

I’m gonna give it a few weeks and see if I end up dropping to 11s, or stringing my Strat the same way.

That's kind of like the set I have on my Fender Tele Custom that I have set up for slide. I have the action very high, but it's set up for slide so that's all right. I did put a Barden bridge and Duncan Jerry Donahue bridge pickup in it for more mids and less treble. Fralin Strat neck pickup. Sounds really good for what I use this guitar for. It's the red one. I keep it in open D (DADF#AD) or open G (DGDGBD).