.017 Gauge Strings on an Electric Guitar!
Вставка
- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- SHOP STRINGJOY: www.stringjoy.com
SUBSCRIBE: www.youtube.co...
DESCRIPTION
Can you put .017 gauge strings on a regular electric guitar without making any modifications? Let's find out!
ABOUT STRINGJOY
Stringjoy is a boutique guitar string company located in Music City-Nashville, TN. We’re dedicated to making the highest quality guitar and bass strings, providing the best customer service in the industry, and giving our players more gauge and customization options than anyone else out there. We proudly make all of our strings in the USA, and we donate 5% of our net profits to support music education programs.
FIND US AT
Instagram: / stringjoy
Facebook: / stringjoy
Our Homebase: www.stringjoy.com
~-~~-~~~-~~-~
Check out our latest video: "Chorus Pedal Order Comparison: Where to Put Chorus on Your Pedalboard"
• Chorus Pedal Order Com...
~-~~-~~~-~~-~
What the heaviest gauge of strings you've ever put on your guitar?
Stringjoy oh ill only ever go as high as 8s, but i stick to 7s, 9s and up hurt my fingies
14-74 custom set for drop E on a 30 inch scale baritone.
.019 - .068 in Open C variation on my MIM Tele from November 2017. Strings by Stringjoy btw ;)
14-68
13-58 in standard tuning
*tunes with these strings*
Guitar: *N U T B R E A K S*
But does it djent
It does.
Stringjoy but does it? Are you sure?
I used 13s on my SRV strat. Warped the neck so definitely adjust your truss rod accordingly
I use 13-58 tuned a whole step down to D standard on my stratocaster. It couldnt sound better.
👍👍👍
Your guitar picks must be made of stone.
13-60 on D standard here!
12-56 in Eb :)
12-60 in e
I use a custom set from you guys 0.13 up to 0.56, same as Billy howerdel, and it's sounds great, tuned to C#
I bet it does!
17s is just crazy!..really what are ppl thinking about...as for tuning try an octave down...crazy tho..even 13s is a bit much.
Some people have heavy hands some people just prefer heavy strings like me for example
Well i restringed a cheap yamaha classical nylon with .11 steel.. The action is heaven n earth
As Ariel Posen pointed out, B on baritone scales creates a more bass like sound and feel; don't really need to go quite this heavy, but having at least one guitar set up at C or B standard can vastly improve the repetoire.
You mentioned a few times of tuning it higher than B, but is that really even an option? As you probably know, a .17 gauge string is the typical B string you'd find in a common set of .13's. And tuning .13's any much higher than E standard, which acts in relativity as tuning a .17 past B, makes the plain strings very unstable and at a high risk of breaking for typical playing techniques. I would think somewhere around C# or D is the absolute highest you could push the string before it'd snap from a simple bend, if that. All just my conjecture, though
Great question! Yeah when I first strung it up I didn't really want to take it that high up, though the next day I put it up to open C# which worked just fine. I would imagine you could take it a bit higher, to D or D#, but at E it would get a little harry. It's do-able of course, but it wouldn't be a great idea...
Def not a good idea at 017, period.
restringing a guitar with a 12s/13s triggers my anxiety
@@MemesAreLife0401 bruh I have 10s on my les Paul, use 9s on my prs, which has a floyd rose, the anxiety I get when restrining the floyd rose...
.17 gauge tunes to E with no problems whatsoever.
I use 14's on my Les Paul , and tune it down one full step , On the SG , 11's one full step down ,, the Tele 11.5's Half step down , ES 11.5's Half step down , the warlock 10's Standard tuning . I wont use anything lower then a 10 , If wrote as song that requires 2 step down then I would use 16's , which would require a guitar suited for such a low tuning and heavy stings . This is important , always dedicate a guitar for each tuning setup and string gage , as the neck and body wont set properly and you would get warping and other stress related to irregular tension . It is also advisable if your going to tune in standard tuning , not use any gage above 11.5 and nothing below 10's .
You should try bflat standard (bflat eflat aflat dflat f bflat). Its a really cool tuning!
Oh I have, I agree it's delightful!
A#, F A# F A# D tuning is pretty nice too.
Wow this was long ago haha. I recently tuned my ibanez rg370dx with a floyd rose (floating) to A# standard with 13-62 and it was super cool!!!!
Drop E for maximum djent
I've played 13-60, on a Collings OM, and a Rainsong jumbo, tuning the 6th from D all the way to B. I chased the nut slot for the 60 with a StewMac file, and lubed with graphite so it would pass thru easier. The Rainsong really sounded huge down to B.
I'm sure that sounded massive1
I've used 13-56 and it's enough for my acoustic tbh
I use 12 to 52 standard tuning but instead of buying new strings if my high e breaks I’m gonna use a spare 16 gauge string
a standard set of 17s is 17 to 74
The heaviest I've done is 72, 52, 38, 26w, 17, 13 for a standard 25.5 inch scale tuned to Drop Bb.
Where did you get this set?
Can I turned This gauge string at Eb?
I have stratocaster, what i have to modified to supporting This strings?
Are you Stevie ray Vaughan lmao
@@christopher4443
SRV's long lost relative I personally use both super light strings and super heavy strings
What happened to the nut when the heavier strings were put on? Did the slots have to be recut? I'm curious because I'm interested in using some of the Sonic Youth alternate tunings using the same string gauges they do.
SRV used 17s actually with a plain g
I love your videos so much! I also subscribed to your amazing channel!!
Thanks Jason!
Imagine grandpa picking this guitar up and trying to tune it back up
Where in the world do you get a 64-17 set ;)?
We make gauges from .007 to .090 and offer completely customizable sets over on our site, Stringjoy.com
Wtf 90?
Manuzziya as in the first e? Or the low e is 90 because otherwise that’s mad
He took a bass G string for the low E
Review needs more blues licks
heaviest strings i have ever put on a guitar...and keep in mind this is a typical scale strat, not a bass...was a .135 to 20 something. yes i was downtuned to whale fart range. i believe drop D in the bass octave. so like 34 pounds. 40 on a guitar is insane and i definitely dont recommend it. the 135 i used bowed the neck slightly over time so yea, gauge doesnt matter but i would do some charts and keep tension under 30 to protect your neck, and be sure to tighten the truss rod if you go tighter. i'm fairly sure if you cranked the 17 set to standard E it would break the plain strings and maybe your first wound. there is a reason why 12 string guitars usually have thicker necks and dual truss rods.
What guitar was it? I'm just wondering how you could fit a 135 into the hole under the bridge and the one in the tuning peg
14-60 it was a 12 set but I broke my high e and had to use a old b
Is this the gauge that some slide players use in standard sometimes as well? You said that in another comment and I was wondering if it was this set.
Most of our slide players use highly customized gauges to suit their individual needs, but many of them will start with .015-.017
NIce. It's awesome that some slide players go that high.
With slide, I've actually found that heavier isn't necessarily better; especially with the action raised, standard 10/11 can make the heavier wound strings easier to voice, depending on the tuning.Try standard tension with the tuning first, go heavier if you have to.A lot of those myths are people either selling strings, or wanting you to believe there's some special magic/ knowledge.
How the heck is your intonation and your nut ok? I have an ec-1000 and i put 13-60 gauge strings to tone lower, keeping the tension about the same as 10s in standard. However, my intonation was absolutely terrible and i ran out of room to adjust it. The strings also didn't fit well at the nut, i would've needed to file it or get a custom one put on. The biggest strings i can comfortably fit on it are 12-56 gauge without any issues. I would like to know what might be different, making my guitar impossible to get proper intonation with that big of strings? Because like you said, yours was ok, and it sounded like you could've adjusted it and gotten it set up right
I've done alot of work on this guitar so that helps. But in your case, one trick that can occasionally help when it feels like you can't move the saddle enough to intonate it is to adjust the height of your tailpiece and try it again.
Scott, did you re-slot the nut?
Not this time, but I have before. But it's worth noting, I wasn't keeping it set up like this forever, so I didn't make any permanent modifications.
Not-coincidentally my tech put a new nut on this guitar not long after this experiment, haha.
Me if i play that: rip finger
I would have gone wound B string at this rate
Those low are frequencies are so jumbled..use a bass if you want that.
i cant imagine the fingers post playing
Fucking masacred.
You probably wouldn't want to play my guitar then cause I use 11 gauge strings and 17 gauge strings I prefer heavy gauge strings
just get a bass bro
Chuggy riffs not really lmao change the pedal and style
Ouch