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mike_fried wrote:

Have you tried changing the pickup height on your Tele when changing gauges? You might find that lowering them slightly might bring back the "air" with 11's...

Good suggestion, I can try that. The Telecaster is one of the new '52 Fender American Vintage tele's so the pickups are A3 and low output in the first place. I don't have them super high but can certainly adjust them to see if it helps with 11's.

Ernie Ball 9-42 for everything. Several years ago I had a bad bout of 'over use syndrome' in my left hand and arm. After months of physical therapy I'm happy to trade off a little bit of tone for still being able to play.

13 to 56 flats !

Strat 1: Thomastik flats 12 - 50s
Strat 2: Pyramid Gold flats 11 - 50s

All three mustang basses: La Bella deep talkin' flats for Mustangs 43 - 104s

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On my Jazzmaster: 12-52 rounds with wound 3rd. Fat rhythm sounds!
On my Jaguar: 11-48 rounds. Comfy and fast!

12-52's on all my guitars, I'm a bit heavy-handed so I need a wound 3rd to feel comfortable.

D'Addario flatwound Chromes on my Jaguar, Strat and Hodad.

D'Addario roundwound Nickelwounds on my Tele Deluxe, Epiphone Swingster and my custom built FrankenJag (rounds seem to work better with the TV Jones pups in that one).

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Well, until Fender "discontinued" them, I was using Fender (#73-1550-000) pure nickel ground wound 1550's (0.010/0.048, with wound G).

I'm now looking around for something similar (wound 3rd) from D'Addario.

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Old_Tele_man wrote:

Well, until Fender "discontinued" them, I was using Fender (#73-1550-000) pure nickel ground wound 1550's (0.010/0.048, with wound G).

I'm now looking around for something similar (wound 3rd) from D'Addario.

JS111 from Thomastik Enfeld do .11 and .15 plain, and .19, .25, .35, .47 flatwound. They have other combinations.

He who dies with the most tubes... wins

Surf Daddies

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Old_Tele_man wrote:

tubeswell wrote:

Old_Tele_man wrote:

Well, until Fender "discontinued" them, I was using Fender (#73-1550-000) pure nickel ground wound 1550's (0.010/0.048, with wound G).

I'm now looking around for something similar (wound 3rd) from D'Addario.

JS111 from Thomastik Enfeld do .11 and .15 plain, and .19, .25, .35, .47 flatwound. They have other combinations.

Even though I'm more into JAZZ than SURF, I've never used anything else but 'ground-wound' strings on my Tele. They give me 80-90% the brightness of traditionaly 'round-wounds' without finger "squeek."

However, I did use Gibson flatwounds on the ES-345TDN/SVT that I had when I had it ('68-'73). I've found 'ground-wound' strings to be the best compromise strings for everything that I play--remember I'm the RHYTHM player, not LEAD. Even my Gibson ES-135LE has D'Addario 'ground-wounds.'

! ! HELP ! ! PLEASE DELETE ALL THE ABOVE MULTIPLE POSTS.

Old_Tele_man wrote:

! ! HELP ! ! PLEASE DELETE ALL THE ABOVE MULTIPLE POSTS.

Only Brian can delete the extra posts. But you can edit (Use the "Update" button) each post to delete the content. It can't be completely empty, so most folks just leave a "nc" or something behind.

Yeah, I've done it, too.

This is Noel. Reverb's at maximum an' I'm givin' 'er all she's got.

Old_Tele_man wrote:

Old_Tele_man wrote:

Old_Tele_man wrote:

Old_Tele_man wrote:

Old_Tele_man wrote:

Old_Tele_man wrote:

tubeswell wrote:

Old_Tele_man wrote:

Well, until Fender "discontinued" them, I was using Fender (#73-1550-000) pure nickel ground wound 1550's (0.010/0.048, with wound G).

I'm now looking around for something similar (wound 3rd) from D'Addario.

JS111 from Thomastik Enfeld do .11 and .15 plain, and .19, .25, .35, .47 flatwound. They have other combinations.

Even though I'm more into JAZZ than SURF, I've never used anything else but 'ground-wound' strings on my Tele. They give me 80-90% the brightness of traditionaly 'round-wounds' without finger "squeek."

However, I did use Gibson flatwounds on the ES-345TDN/SVT that I had when I had it ('68-'73). I've found 'ground-wound' strings to be the best compromise strings for everything that I play--remember I'm the RHYTHM player, not LEAD. Even my Gibson ES-135LE has D'Addario 'ground-wounds.'

Point taken. Wink

He who dies with the most tubes... wins

Surf Daddies

tubeswell wrote:

Point taken. Wink

However, I DID use Fender flatwounds on both of the Jazzmaster's (1965 & 1967) that I owned back when I was in USN. Just seemed to fit those guitars for sure...and...(again) I was only playing rhythm, not lead.

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