I was thinking about experimenting with mixing string-sets on a jazz hollow-body guitar. I wanted to use strings from an 11 or 12 gauge set for the low strings and strings from a 13 gauge set for the high ones. I don't like the disparity in thickness and tone between typical sets of strings and I wanted to try narrowing the disparity a little. Is there any problem with doing this? Will the uneven tensions be worse for the neck or cause intonation problems?
― Albert Jeans (Hurting 2), Friday, 21 November 2008 02:10 (sixteen years ago)
i am also interested in the answer to this question
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Friday, 21 November 2008 02:14 (sixteen years ago)
neck should be fine, intonation will be off, but that is true for any significant string change. Are we talking like a 13-52 or something?
― CHARMING LMAO (John Justen), Friday, 21 November 2008 02:19 (sixteen years ago)
oh yeah also - if you change from an unwound third to a wound third (or vice versa), the intonation shift is going to be much more severe.
― CHARMING LMAO (John Justen), Friday, 21 November 2008 02:20 (sixteen years ago)
Funny, I've been thinking about doin it the other way around. Or at least a heavier 5th and 6th string.
― monkey bonkers (â•“abies), Friday, 21 November 2008 13:55 (sixteen years ago)
I think GHS sells what you're looking for (heavier 4th 5th and 6th string as "Thin and Thick" sets -- or at least they used to.
― Albert Jeans (Hurting 2), Saturday, 22 November 2008 20:27 (sixteen years ago)
yeah, the GHS TNT's will work for that, also the Ernie Ball Hybrid and Skinny Top Heavy Bottom Slinkys, and a couple of the D'Addario sets as well.
― CHARMING LMAO (John Justen), Saturday, 22 November 2008 20:31 (sixteen years ago)
Okay, here's the situation: I have a Teisco, the sound of which I love (single microphonic pickup and that), but the thing will not stay in tune (the tuners on it are stock, kinda dinky looking things. Someone at work left a set of Gibson Deluxe tuners in the common giveaway area. They're three to a side, but my head stock is six in a row. Can I line up three in a row right side up and do three upside down?
― BRTO (Mexican Sleeping Pill), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 17:07 (sixteen years ago)
almost certainly not going to be able to use 3+3 tuners on a 6 a side without heavy duty modification.
prob a good place to mention that tuning problems are almost never due the quality of the tuners themselves, its one of those obvious and frequently attempted solutions that is a total misconception. unless the tuners have been greased or oiled (please everyone never do this btw) the odds that they are contributing to slipping tuning problems is slim to none.
― I BLAME JESUS (jjjusten), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 17:13 (sixteen years ago)
assuming you're already a stringing-properly pro, grease that nut
― butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Friday, 10 April 2009 18:52 (sixteen years ago)
Thx!
― BRTO (Mexican Sleeping Pill), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:28 (sixteen years ago)