Another 'best strings' post

[Perfect Stranger]

I went ahead and ordered $30 of strings from Webstrings to see how they are. Got some 9's and 10's to try on the Strat and Hagstrom and a set for the mandolin.......my mandolin is 18 months old and the strings have never been changed but I've not played it all that much.
I don't expect these strings to be superior quality but I'm hoping they are very good at least.

You are going to be VERY pleasantly surprised. I'd put webstrings up against any of them.

[mapka]

What model Hagstrom are you putting them on?

[Beerman***]

What model Hagstrom are you putting them on?

It's a Swede (not the Ultra) but I bought some 9's for my 74 Strat. I've found it's a bit faster with 9's. The PRS and Swede have 10's.

[Waylanderau]

These days I'm using Ernie Ball 12-56s on my Jackson (tuned to drop C) I find it's actually easier to play fast riffs with plenty of tention. I do have big Sasquatch hands though lol so I guess they're not for everyone

[Katastrophe]

Holy crap! Those are some heavy gauge strings. I don't know how you do it, man.

[Waylanderau]

Well, bear in mind that I'm tuned a whole step down and my bottom string is another step below that. Tention-wise it's actually not a lot tighter than a set of 10-52s in E standard. The sheer fatness of the strings takes some getting used to (my bottom E string is bigger than our bassist's D string) but your fingers adapt very quickly. As previously stated I have big hands and I'm a pretty physical player so with lighter strings I find I end up bending or bashing them out of tune. On my LTD tuned to standard I'm using 11-49s, that way there's not too much difference in tention when I want to swap guitars.