SDOTD - D'Addario EXL110-12P Nickel Wound Light Electric Guitar Strings 12-Pack - $39.99

[hamerhead]

https://www.musiciansfriend.com/stupid

 

[currypowder]

Beat me to the punch. Hard to beat $3.33 a pack.

[svl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[cmatthes]

Danke!  

 

I think I'm more than good on strings now!

[Dave Scepter]

10's again ARRRRRRGH!

[velorush]

38 minutes ago, Dave Scepter said:

10's again ARRRRRRGH!

In the wake of the Rhett Shull / Rick Beato video on string gauges, I gave first 8's and then 9's a try. 

The 8's were a disaster. I couldn't play anything in tune at all. Certainly fun bending up a couple of whole steps but playing an actual chord in tune anywhere proved impossible. I gave away the other set.

Moved on to the 9's and it was somewhat better. Strat-scale was okay, but Gibson scale was a sharp-fest kind of like the 8's. I couldn't play with my thumb on the low E string at all. Vibrato was certainly easier, but I just couldn't lighten up (a problem in most areas of life for me). I finally cried "uncle" and have bought a box of 10's. I suppose 1. my technique is terrible, coupled with 2. forty plus years of playing 10-46 has permitted the terrible technique (excessive fretting pressure?) to persist.

[Drew816]

Thanks, ordered!

I switched to 10's decades okay, it ain't the strings that are my problem!  😉

[Dave Scepter]

1 hour ago, velorush said:

In the wake of the Rhett Shull / Rick Beato video on string gauges, I gave first 8's and then 9's a try. 

The 8's were a disaster. I couldn't play anything in tune at all. Certainly fun bending up a couple of whole steps but playing an actual chord in tune anywhere proved impossible. I gave away the other set.

Moved on to the 9's and it was somewhat better. Strat-scale was okay, but Gibson scale was a sharp-fest kind of like the 8's. I couldn't play with my thumb on the low E string at all. Vibrato was certainly easier, but I just couldn't lighten up (a problem in most areas of life for me). I finally cried "uncle" and have bought a box of 10's. I suppose 1. my technique is terrible, coupled with 2. forty plus years of playing 10-46 has permitted the terrible technique (excessive fretting pressure?) to persist.

10's on short scale and 9's on Strat scale 🤘

[DaveL]

10’s, nice… Thanks for the heads up 

[neastguy]

my favs are 9.5's and they never do it for them

[hamerican gigolo]

I love 10s, but I'm already pretty much well stocked on strings at the moment. 

[BoogieMKIIA]

I placed an order. Looks like it will ship from my local Guitar Center.

We are playing quite a bit this year, glad to have a stash on hand 

[svl]

Got mine today. Thanks again!