11 Strings On A Tele ? Great Results...

jimmyguitar · April 2018

I’m up to 12-52 with wound g on my les paul and jag and love them. I play my acoustic a lot and got so used to soloing on it that any gauge lower than 10-52 (which I like on my strat) feels ridiculously rubber-band-like.

vasselmeyer · April 2018

I play 11s on all my electrics apart from slide which uses 12s. I'm pretty heavy-handed when I play live and do like to smack the strings pretty hard. This started when I started playing live back in the early 1990s and I always felt that I was on the verge of breaking 9s and 10s. I just went up gauges until I found strings I could play without them feeling like they were going to break all the time.

If I play anything with 9s or 10s now it just feels all squidgy and wrong.

redwedge · April 2018

Flatwound 12 to 52 on all my electrics - anything else feels like cheesewire

GavRichList · April 2018

meltedbuzzbox said:

I've been using 11s on everything for 4 years or so.

This

impmann · April 2018

I've tried 11s on my Tele and whilst I liked the sound (yes, it did make a difference), I did get problems with my hands. So I went back to 10s... no such problems.

I also used 13s on my slide Tele... which was great, apart from the blisters on my right thumb (I play slide with fingers, not a pick).

Alnico · April 2018

10 - 52 on my Strat and my Gretsch.
10 - 46 on my Tele and PRS at the moment but both of those will soon be changed over to 10 - 52.
I've tried 11's but the treble strings are just that bit too much for me to bend. I like lots of two tone and tone and a half bends and 11's just ruin my fingers.
10 - 52 is the perfect hybrid set for me.

Philtre · April 2018

Always used 9s on my electrics. But when I got a Jazzmaster put 11 flatwounds on and liked that. So I decided to up my game and restring some of my other guitars to 10s.

Discovered that I like 10s on the Les Paul and Jaguar, but not on the Tele unless I detuned - the tension seems to much. Maybe heavier gauge strings work better on a shorter neck length?

dwheeldo · April 2018

Went up to Ernie Ball 11s on my electrics a few years ago - Tele and es339 - and love them. The difference in sound from 10s is subtle, but real, and I still find I can hit bends without too much trouble. Having said that, I rarely bend more than a tone.

rico · April 2018

11's are what a tele is made for in my opinion. We are in Eb and it just feels perfect.

meltedbuzzbox · April 2018

impmann said:

I've tried 11s on my Tele and whilst I liked the sound (yes, it did make a difference), I did get problems with my hands. So I went back to 10s... no such problems.

I also used 13s on my slide Tele... which was great, apart from the blisters on my right thumb (I play slide with fingers, not a pick).

try my tele... for some reason my 11s feel like 9s on that

RandallFlagg · April 2018

dwheeldo said:

Went up to Ernie Ball 11s on my electrics a few years ago - Tele and es339 - and love them. The difference in sound from 10s is subtle, but real, and I still find I can hit bends without too much trouble. Having said that, I rarely bend more than a tone.

Oh OK, so we can't call you a big bender then?

impmann · April 2018

RandallFlagg said:

dwheeldo said:

Went up to Ernie Ball 11s on my electrics a few years ago - Tele and es339 - and love them. The difference in sound from 10s is subtle, but real, and I still find I can hit bends without too much trouble. Having said that, I rarely bend more than a tone.

Oh OK, so we can't call you a big bender then?

Depends on how fast you can run...

hobbio · April 2018

I'm 10's on everything. I'm thinking about switching back to light top/heavy bottom on a couple of guitars soon though.

I tried 11's and 12's on my 339 and Shine respectively but ended up back at 10's on both.