FYI: one of our own - KJC, is offering discounted prices on flatwounds to us SG101'ers. His store is:

http://www.ballewsmusic.net/intro.cfm

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D'adarrio chromes flatwound 15-65 (I get a 7 string package and discard the 11 gauge) on an AV Jazzmaster.
I buy them through Musician's Friend as they are the cheapest there.

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• Fender Jaguar: Pyramid Gold, flatwound .013

• Epiphone ES-295: Gibson, flatwound .012

• Fender Jazzmaster: Pyramid Gold, flatwound .011

• Mosrite Excellent 65: Pyramid, roundwound .010

• Burns Double Six: Pyramid Gold 12-string, flatwound .010From the 12-string set product description:

_Our strings produce the same sound as the most loved 12 string sounds made by British and American pop groups of the 60's. They are the same type of strings that made the music in the first place! Roger McGuinn, founder of "The Byrds" - favours, uses and loves the Pyramid Gold pure nickel flat wound .010-.0465 12-string set!

Says Mr. McGuinn about Pyramid strings:

"Pyramid Gold flat wound strings bring back the sound that made me fall in love with the electric 12-string guitar. And they last much longer too!" - Roger_

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I get the Pyramids at Saitenkatalog.de. The roundwounds are really inexpensive at 4,10 € but the flatwounds costs quite a bit more at 12,05 € (the 12-string set is 19,60 €).

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Can you put smaller guage strings once you file a nut for thicker strings? I'm sure I wouldn't want to, but whatever the case... Also is it hard to do yourself or how much does a shop generally charge?

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eddiewagner
hmmmm.....
i play 9-46 on my strat with low action of 2-3 mm

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[url]http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/action.htm[/url]
For most players a string height (also known in guitar slang as action) of 3/64" of an inch is considered normal. Some players choose a higher sting height such as 4/64" of an inch while players which tend to have a light touch and want the fastest action possible strive to lower the action as close as possible to 2/64" [i.e. 0.8 mm, WRwhich in many case's is very hard to setup and maintain without fret buzzing somewhere on the finger board (for the lowest possible action or to avoid fret buzz all across your finger board it may be necessary to have your frets leveled and crowned first).

seems to me 2-3 mm is pretty high already. I have my jag at about 2 mm and it's the heighest I ever had on a guitar.

I used to have a Les Paul with leveled frets that was set up at below 1 mm action, no buzz at all. great guitar. It made me play all kind of ridiculous pseudo shredding licks, which totally didn't fit with the band I was in. I still regret I wasn't more concious about such things back then. I read somewhere Lou Reed occasionally strings with too heavy for him strings to get the sound of the "clumsy" Velvet Underground style bends.

eddiewagner also
I would like to present the idea here, that a pretty high action can do a lot for your sound too.

I agree. I think IvanP mentioned the same thing recently, how his strat sounded better with higher action. I think it aslo varies from guitar to guitar. I like the sound of strats and tele's with thinner strings, on jags it's horrible.

mho of course.

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eddiewagner
i changed my mind again. now its 11-49. on the strat for my surfband. i think thats still easy enough on my old fingers and i do not bend them too much for the surfstuff. singlenotes sound a lot better than with a 9-42 set and they respond better to machine-gun stuff. still with a high action. so far so good.
eddie

flatwound roundwound is the question.

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Same set for a year. I like to hear that Bill. I hate changing my flatwounds.

I just put some ghs boomer 11's on my SG and wow!
Ive always played 10's and tried 11's once before but they tended to rip my calluses off but that was when I played a lot of wanking solo's. These 11's give me more control, makes it harder to inadvertanly bend strings which means I play cleaner now, and of course they sound way beefier. I also bought some D'adario 12's that i'm gonna put on in a few weeks after my fingers get used to these 11's. The only question now is: How low will I go?

JakeDobner
Same set for a year. I like to hear that Bill. I hate changing my flatwounds.

I think they get better age. Maybe on my Telecaster a new set of strings sounds refreshing, but the Jaguar with thuddy old strings, well they just seems to go hand in hand with each other.

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