Wound G should be more popular

[RanchManSandy]

wound g? but how then would I do my boomer bends at the next jam night with all the blues lawyers and their box pentatonics?????

[ehdwuld]

That may be why the piezo bridge I use on my LP sized hollow body guitars
blats out on the G string

I should be using a wound third

Brilliant

I never thought about that but I don't bend much anyway

[jeremy]

wound g? but how then would I do my boomer bends at the next jam night with all the blues lawyers and their box pentatonics?????

with difficulty id assume, thats how i do it in those situations

[GuitarStv]

with difficulty id assume, thats how i do it in those situations

I've found that the critical key to doing correct boomer bends is to make a constipated face.

[ErikH]

I play in standard E tuning majority of the time and bend a lot as a blues/rock player. A wound G is a no go for me. Now, if I was playing rhythm and bashing chords in a AC/DC tribute, I'd probably use 12's with a wound G.

[jeremy]

I've found that the critical key to doing correct boomer bends is to make a constipated face.

trying to bend a 22w up a step and a half will make it happen

[htrd]

In my opinion plain strings over 17-18 shouldn't exist. Tried plain 20 in August, it was a major PITA. Yes, it bends nicely, but sounds and intonates poorly.

[weepingminotaur]

I bend a crap ton on the third string, so I'm not sure wound Gs are for me. But I may give it a whirl on my D standard guitar with 11s one of these days...