Ernie Ball Regular Slinkys (10s) on my Strats. All floating. Vintage spec pups in both and use 3 springs V shaped on both now.
i set my start with elixar 10's for strings the bridge is not floated i have a dimarzio humbucker at bridge i have 3 vibrato springs
Ernie Ball Regular Slinkys (10s) on my Strats. All floating. Vintage spec pups in both and use 3 springs V shaped on both now.
Guitars/Bass - MIM Fender Classic 50s Strat, MIM Fender Standard Strat, Squier Classic Vibe 50s Tele, Gibson Les Paul Studio, Epi '56 Gold Top Les Paul, Martin DSR acoustic, Sigma Martin Auditorium electric/acoustic, Squier Jazz Bass.
Amps/Cabinets/Modelers - Model 2558 50 watt Marshall Silver Anniversary Jubilee combo w/ Celestion Vintage 30s, 4x12 Marshall cabinet w/25 watt Greenback Celestions, Fender Blues Junior w/ a couple of Billm mods, Line 6 POD 2.0, Roland Micro Cube
Pedals/Effects - Cry Baby Classic Wah, Boss TU-2, Boss NS-2, Boss RC-2 Loop Station, Ross Compressor, MXR Micro Amp, Danelectro FAB Echo, Danelectro FAB Chorus, Danelectro Chicken Salad, Marshall Guv'nor Plus, Marshall Echohead, Duhvoodooman's Zonkin' Yellow Screamer, Digitech Digiverb, Digitech Bad Monkey, Dunlop Fuzz Face, Homemade Loop Bypass pedal, Duhvoodooman's Sonic Tonic (Maxon SD-9 clone +), Voodoo Labs Superfuzz
Slinky Skinny Top/Heavy Bottom Strings, 5 springs on vibrato.
This on a Jimmie Vaughan that went out of tune once to often..
love it even more now.
Jimmie Vaughan Strat , Squire 51
Epi 56 GoldTop, SX "Vintage" Jazz Bass
Zager 50, Guild GAD30R (Excellent)
G-Dec 3 Thirty, Valve Junior & Cab
Crate PowerBlock, Crate V33H
Avatar Cabinet 2x12 Hellatones
JamVox, Studio GX With Mods/Farm 2.0.
D'Addario XLs (10s) on both. Both trems decked. Three springs on both.
Like Pete said. D'Addario XL 10s and decked, stock springs. Other than strings, it is completely stock. Unlike the pic in my avatar, I do not have the trem bar attached.
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
Amphs: Peavey Classic 30, '61 Fender Concert
Effects and such: Boss: DS-1, CE-5, NS-2 and RC20XL looper, Digitech Bad Monkey, Korg AX1G Multi-effects, Berhinger: TU100 tuner, PB100 Clean Boost, Line 6 Toneport UX2, Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi, DuhVoodooMan's Rabid Rodent Rat Clone, Zonkin Yellow Screamer Mk. II, MXR Carbon Copy Delay
love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart. . .
- j. johnson
Floated trem with 3 springs in a V. 10-46 for strings and a wedge of lemon. Shaken...not stirred.
"No Tele For you." - The Tele Nazi
Ha! Tele-ish now inbound.
.009s on my Strat, trem not floating, three springs. It's funny, I have 10s on my other guitars, but these felt right, so I'm sticking with them.
Guitars:
Fender 2006 MIM Fender Stratocaster HSS in 3TS
Ibanez RG 570 with a bridge Invader
ESP M II Deluxe with a Tune-o-Matic bridge
Eleanor, the magical, mystical Road Worn wonder Tele
Blackstar HT Club 40
70's "Classic" Natural Ash
GFS "Texas" Alnico Stagger Pickups
Black pickguard, knobs, ect...
GHS "Fatties" 10's
Floating with 3 springs V
She's got tons of Strat chime and is, at this point, my favorite!
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"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a
pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly
used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW--What a ride!!!"
-Stuart Wilde-
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend
to view every problem as a nail."
-Maslow-
"Religion is sitting in a church thinking about fishing.
Spirituality is fishing and thinking about God."
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+1Originally Posted by stingx
Except I put all 5 springs in mine and removed the wiggly bar.
Cheers,
Bob
Help, I've fallen and can't reach my Tele!
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10-46 D'Addarios, trem set resting on the body (I don't use the trem).
Two of my Strats are all stock (3 springs); one has a Wilky trem with 5 springs.
Guitars: 2008 Gibson SG Classic, 2006 Gibson Les Paul Standard LE, 2002 Gibson SG Supreme, 2001 Gibson Les Paul Studio Plus, 1996 Les Paul Studio Gem, American Deluxe Double Fat Strat, Bluesville "Super" Strat Copy, MIK Fender "Limited Edition" Tele, JD Bluesville "Night Pilot", Yamaha AES 820, Steinberger Spirit GT Pro, Taylor 355CE, Ovation 1897 Adamas, Ovation CC057 Celebrity
Amps: Axe FX centered rack rig, Mesa 4x12 cab. Germino Club 40, Johnson JM150 Millennium, Johnson JM250 Millennium, Gibson Titan Medalist Frankenstein.
Effects: Tonebone Trimode, EH Holy Grail, Boss CH-1, Dunlop Crybaby Classic, Framptone Amp Switcher, THD Hot Plate, Yamaha AG Stomp Acoustic Processor, Boss BCB-60 Pedal Board.
I have no idea where either trem bar isOriginally Posted by rkwrenn
50's series MIM
LSR roller nut
Graph Tech Saddles and string tree
Push pull Vol pot used as a "neck on" switch to have 2 more pup positions
3 Ply pick guard White/Black/White GFS
From neck to Bridge. S.Duncan Quarter Pounder / SD JB mini bucker / Q P
Sperzel locking tuners
Full size CTS 250K pots.
Black Knobs.
Addario's 9.5 XL's
3 springs with the trem bar in but NON floating.
Coil cut switch on the JB so its actually a 9 way switch.
Next project is two more cuts on the Quarter Pounders. They are 14.2K DC res and you can "cut" them (their 4 wire pups like a bucker) to 7.6K....then I think it will have all the bells and whistles you could ever want.
Guitars: Epiphone Special 2 LP modded with a SD Pearly Gates and a SD Alnico 2 flat strat pro.300K pots.Tone pros Brass Stop tailpiece.Dunlop frets dressed to .031,LSR roller nut, Spezel custom stainless steel locking tuners. Satin finished neck.Fender MIM 50's strat modded with LSR roller nut, graph tech string tree,sperzel satin chrome locking tuners, graph tech saddles,300K push pull volume for "neck on pup" and 200K tone pots.PUPS:Neck seymore duncan QP single coil for strat. Middle: Seymour Duncan JB Jr with coil tap (so actually a 9 way tone selection). Bridge: Same as neck.Amps/Cabs.2 Epi Valve Jr's, Peavey Delta Blues 1x15. Randall RG200es,Guitar research 4x8 cab loaded W/celestion super 8's and rewired for two-2x8 operation.Marshall 4x12 slant lead cab,Johnson cab 1x12.
Yep, all mine (4) ended up in the case I haul my Tele around in.Originally Posted by stingx
Cheers,
Bob
Help, I've fallen and can't reach my Tele!
http://www.myspace.com/rkwrenn
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2 springs in a V to the mounting plate so its real twitchy and .046E Elixir, .036A Elixir, .024D D'Addario, .016G D'Addario, .013B Elixir, .010E Elixir, Gold Lace Sensor on the neck, 57Strat Reissue in the middle, and Red Lace Sensor on the Bridge...frets filed and set to dime height..or somewhere close
Cannuck on a mission
Guitars: Fender Strat, Gibson Les Paul Custom, Ibanez Roadstar 2, Peavey Wolfgang Standard, Gibson Flying V, Yamaha 12 string, some beat up old classical
Amps: 1969 Fender Twin Reverb, 2002 Line 6 Flextone 2
Effects: Digitech GNX4, Boss ME30, and a whack of pedals
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3 springs in a V with a floating bridge on both American strats. Using DR .10's on my strats.
Guitars: 2003 and 2004 American series strats, Squier Classic Vibe 50's Strat, Squier Deluxe Strat.
Amps: Line 6 Spider IV 120, Vox AD50VT 212, and Peavey Transtube Bandit 112.
Pedals: Digitech Bad Monkey.
For live, I use 10's for strait up and 11's for slide.Originally Posted by pes_laul
For home I use 9's (I have been using a modeler to dink around with, and string guage doesn't play nearly as much of a role in a total processed sound, that it plays in a live/amp situation.
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Other than that, most of my strats, I put stacked (sometimes tapped) hummers in the bridge and neck, and a medium output good quality single in the middle. I prefer Seymours of most any flavor.
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I quit using Floyds a long time ago, because I found no matter what, I would over use them.. couldn't help myself.. look what I can do.. wee' kinda crap.. *L*
But I block my standard trems so they only go Down.. this not only increases sustain, but keeps from any inconsistancys in intonation and string changes, and if you pop a string on stage (haven't done it in years, but it will and does happen) everything else stays in tune.. and that is a great insurance policy.