hlieboff59
April 2nd, 2009, 11:57 AM
Hi, everyone, I'm new to this forum. My name is Howard and I live in New Jersey.
Right now I have a 82 American fender strat. I had all new pickups put in and had the guy put on new strings. Flatwound D'addario Lights which are 11,15,22,30,40,50 I like to play surf music and like thick strings. The guy put on the new pickups and new strings, but had to put on the rest of the springs in back. I had 3 springs up until now, but now all 5 are put on. I love to use the whammy bar too. but with the 5 springs on the bridge is just about all the way down, which gives me none to limited use of whammy bar. plus the whammy won't even screw in all the way. but now, I want to switch to lighter gauge strings. These strings are D'Addario extra lights 10,14,20,28,38,48. so I want to take off 2 of the springs so that I'll have use of the whammy bar.
My question is with taking the 2 springs offs and putting on the new lighter set, even though the strings are little bit less in gauge, will the neck be okay with this setup or do you think I should go with a little bit lighter gauge flat wounds. I saw them which are 10,14, 18, 23 ,33 ,34????
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Howard L
Right now I have a 82 American fender strat. I had all new pickups put in and had the guy put on new strings. Flatwound D'addario Lights which are 11,15,22,30,40,50 I like to play surf music and like thick strings. The guy put on the new pickups and new strings, but had to put on the rest of the springs in back. I had 3 springs up until now, but now all 5 are put on. I love to use the whammy bar too. but with the 5 springs on the bridge is just about all the way down, which gives me none to limited use of whammy bar. plus the whammy won't even screw in all the way. but now, I want to switch to lighter gauge strings. These strings are D'Addario extra lights 10,14,20,28,38,48. so I want to take off 2 of the springs so that I'll have use of the whammy bar.
My question is with taking the 2 springs offs and putting on the new lighter set, even though the strings are little bit less in gauge, will the neck be okay with this setup or do you think I should go with a little bit lighter gauge flat wounds. I saw them which are 10,14, 18, 23 ,33 ,34????
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Howard L