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I have a 1993 USA Strat which is possibly the crappiest time these
guitars were made and I've had D'addario Chromes 13s on it with no
problem...however I've had what I thought was a frozen truss rod and
had to carefully use more force than usual on it to move it. Maybe
you should take it into a qualified tech.
Bill
--- In , "Marty Tippens"
<mctippens@e...> wrote:
> It's standard E tuning for me. On two of the strats I have the
flat-wound chromes and on a third I have roundwounds of the same 13-
56 gage. The rounds are Ernie Balls.
> -Marty
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Reid
> To:
> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 7:32 AM
> Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: Strings?
>
>
> I have to agree. I play an SRV Strat and a Custom Classic Tele
both
> are strung with .13's and sound just fine. I do downtune to Eb
> though, that may explain my success. Are you doing the same or
do
> you have it up to E? I use the GHS Boomers as well as the
Gibson
> Powerlines and find they both are awesome strings for tone
quality.
> Go through a set about every month (3 to 5 weeks depending on
> frequency of playing as I'm just a home hacker :-)).
>
> /Bodie
>
> --- In , "Marty Tippens"
> <mctippens@e...> wrote:
> > If Dale has really given' the truss a good tightening, the
only
> thing that I can think of that is causing the issue with the
13's on
> the Highway 1 Strat is that the truss may not have been
installed
> enough towards the back of the neck. Thus it would not be able
to
> counter-act the pull of the heavy strings. If this is the case,
over
> time even the 10's will bow the neck. I've had no prob with 13's
on
> three recent Mexi-Strats so I don't think it's a case of not
> makin' 'em like they use to.
>
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