I use 10s on Teles. These seem to be a happy medium and balance. I like
.011s too but there is a trade off a bit on .009s and .011s for Teles.
I just bought a set of 9.5's so should be interesting gauge to check out.if I like em on one git the others might get them too.Originally Posted by ZMAN
I use 10s on Teles. These seem to be a happy medium and balance. I like
.011s too but there is a trade off a bit on .009s and .011s for Teles.
I too, use 10s on my Teles. Sometimes the Ernie Ball Hybrid (heavy top skinny bottom), but recently bought a 10-pack of D'Addario EXL 110.
I might try some 9.5s today when I have the Fender locking tuners put on my LPB CV fifties strat. Just fo the fun of it. They might hit those Texas Specials just a little harder. Pretty soon I won't be able to call it a CV anymore without feeling guilty.
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I just joined the Tele club over the weekend - I put 10's on it and it plays great but the pickups suck. It's an Arbor..?? Anyway I've got some GFS pickups and a stewmac tele rewire kit coming in to resolve the sound issues. On a squier tele I had the sounded great with 10's (and fender noiseless pickups).
How's the pickups on that CV sound??
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Wow, nice Tele. I'm looking for one with a mini-humbucker in the neck, but will likely have to buy a regular one and convert it. I might go with CV Custom with Al 5's and put in a Seymour Duncan SM-3n mini-hum for the neck. All the CV Tele's (Custom and 50's) I've played sound pretty good, but not as nice as the American Special with the Texas Special pickups.
Only paid $120 for that thing too! It was a steal.
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The CV is a strat in Lake Placid Blue with a white pearl pickguard and Custom Shop Texas Special pickups. I recently put the brushed metal Fender Locking tuners on it. Very nice guitar. It has the bridge tone control mod so you can adjust the tone on the bridge switch setting only, the middle pickup is wide open. Sounds super great.
I put some Fender Vintage Noiseless pickups in my Squier Standard tele, walnut finish, black pickguard, nice looking guitar and sounds good with the noiseless pickups but not like a traditional tele. Not having noise is nice though. However, it seems like you have to be willing to put up with that noise if you want to get real good tele sound, to one extent or another. My MIM std tele has hot ceramic single coils and is noisy, '09. Great tone though. But I keep thinking, there has to be something better out there for this guitar to cut down this noise. My Nashville tele has Tex Mex pickups and isn't nearly as noisy, but they are alnico pickups.
I think one pickup solution may be to install, "low output" pickups. I think these would sound better and might be less noisy, but when you turn them up they might get real noisy, I don't know. I suspect, however, that the low output pickups will be much quieter.
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My Fender Am Deluxe Tele came with 9's on it. I liked them for abit cause they were really easy to bend on but I couldnt get a thick enough sound out of them for my liking and I play a mixed gauge of 10 - 52 (light tops, heavy bottoms) on my strat, so I thought I'd put the same set on my Tele and bam! They were a huge imporovement
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I use 10s on all my instruments sans a Floyd Rose. On those I use 9s.
I put 10's on everything.
Well, I think a lot of the desire for 10s is just macho stuff. I generally play pretty clean, so the slightly lighter tone of 9's is just fine for me. I also like the easier touch for bends and other legato moves. Now, if you want to bomb away with gain/distortion ... OK, I think 10s might be better ... but you're probably going to be doing that with a humbucker setup.
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Played 11's with thicker lows for a decade. It does give a great unwavering rhythm sound. Swapped to tens for easier leads, but it wasn't so much easier and lows got lax. So now I have put a thick 11 set bottom end but 9's top end on everything and I love it. Strong chords but very light and lively to bend. Also swapped from thick jazz pics to regular .50 delrins...a bit playing style adjustment too...and been very happy since.
Too thick is too thick...I love a thick string low end so I can smack it hard without wobbles, but if Angus and gibbons can play 8's and sound huge, why torment them fingers.
Dee
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I've got 11s (Ernie Ball Power Slinkys), love the sound & don't have any issues bending
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Really? Must have really strong fingers. I could not do it well. I mean, yeah, I can bend a step up but forget about 1,5 or two-step bends, and especially forget about applying a loose Angus-style vibrato at the height of the bend. Even when I used a heavy LP the string pull would be too much doing even a one-step bend without pushing the neck in the other direction simultaneously.
What I love about nines is I don't have to hold on to the neck when bending, but rather just lift the string with fingers and suspend the whole guitar basically by the bending fingers, then kinda move my whole arm for vibrato, and that just doesn't happen even with tens. Well maybe with tens on a LP etc. it is just OK, but even better with nines and especially lighter guitars which I prefer these days.
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Ok, I'm not that good yet so no vibrato when bending, but I don't lack in finger strength. Maybe on the next set I'll try nines and see the difference