what gauge is your high e string?

[Grandturk]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

10. Unless it's not.

 

[Sanford]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

11 electric
13 acoustic

seems to be my comfort zone, usually in standard A=440 type tuning. Basically I started out on really light strings (.08 high E) and went up until I stopped breaking them at the bridge or causing the whole guitar to go out of tune by strumming or fretting.

 

[drew_half_empty]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

11 across the board except the strat has 10's

 

[kramer.geetar]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999

 

[sosomething]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

11

But it's an E flat.

Today I put a fresh set of custom-gauge Naked Strings on my SG Classic, so that guitar has a most-exotic..

..wait for it..

11.5 Eb

 

[mrpinter]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

10 on everything (including acoustic), except for a Thinline Tele, which has a 9.

 

[TimmyPage]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

Currently 11 on my Tele, 12 on my strat and 13 on my hollowbody. The only reason I haven't moved the tele to 12s yet is because the neck is incredibly thin, and began to bow a little even with the 11's on, so I adjusted the truss rod and it's now sitting nicely. I'll wait a few weeks for them to sit in place and make sure there's no further bowing before moving up again.

Then again I use flatwounds, so the actual gauge is 11-50, it sounds nice as is so there's a chance I might just keep it, even if it does feel a little more finicky with little 11's on it.

 

[akio]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

9 on my LTD and PRS, E standard
10 on the Gibson, also E standard
10 on the Ibanez, but in C standard

 

[Arrigus]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

10 on electrics.
13 on acoustics.

 

[B2D]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

.010-.052 on everything

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

a 18. b is 16, e is 14. i made the set out of loose strings. :9:

All the better for practicing your truss rod adjustment skills. Small wonder that the action on your Mustang is so high!

 

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

9

 

[Northwinds]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

I'm digging the DR .10-.60s lately on my Les Paul and ML

 

[Sprinter]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

10

 

[Bludave]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

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11 on electrics, 13 on acoustics

 

[80's_Metal]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

9 on the Explorer
10's on the Deans
11 on the LP

 

[Agileguy_101]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

11. Standard tuning, long scale. Suck it

 

[jeremy]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

11 std tuning electrics
12 flatwounds on my old guild hollowbody
13 std tuning acoustics

if i drop tune i go heavier to keep the tension about the same. 11's on a strat in std are about the same as 12's on a strat in Eb and 13's in D

 

[blueman335]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

9's on all.

+1. 9's for me baby, and everything's in standard tuning.

 

[ImmortalSix]

Re: what gauge is your high e string?

10