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To stop breaking flatwound strings on my Squire Stagemaster, I
installed Graphtechs on the bridge. The stagemaster is a strat-like
guitar w/ a 2 point pivot bridge. I found they gave a "overtone-y"
unpleasant sound made even worse by the spring reverb. So back went
the "metal" (or what ever material that was installed in china)
saddles and the tone improved. The answer to string breakage was to
switch to GHS Nickelrockers 11's, or partially flattened
roundwounds. I think it was a question of string quality. Since
switching, I rarely break a string.
- Bill M.
--- In , "Gavin Ehringer"
<gavinehringer@e...> wrote:
>
>
> BN,
> As you may recall, I used GraphTechs on my Jaguar; they caused two
problems. The first,
> they were a little too small and it made it difficult for me to
set up the string height and
> intonation and second, I had some string grounding issues which
resulted in unwanted
> noise. I put the two steel center barrels from the Jag back on the
bridge, left the
> GraphTechs on the highest and lowest strings. No more problems.
