![]() ![]() it just tends to be a bit outside the sweet spot of the D-tuna's tuning range. which is not to say that a 42 doesn't work. I will state that IF your using an EVH D-tuna, the Low "E" seems to work best if its a 46. ![]() and don't get me started on the "licensed by" versions. buying one is only buying a future headache. (Specials) are made from too soft and inexpensive metals with equally too soft coatings and should never be allowed on a decent guitar. I will say that they have "refined" the design over the last 40 years, and how they started out, is not how they are today. They were designed to be used with just about any string out there, which is why they have SO MANY adjustments on them and also why so many people get them all screwed up. and that should be plainly obvious regardless of what lie some 14 year old posted on the internet. The FR Vibrato Bridge was NOT "designed" for any 1 gauge of string period. still can and do it nearly everyday in my shop. ![]() because I could make any FR equipped guitars sit up and bark. I earned the nickname Dr Floyd back in the early 80s. Riboloff ( ex-Gibson engineer who collaborated on designs for the FR guitars with Speed loaders, and worked with FR himself) and I have been installing FRs on guitars since 1979 and I spent the last 6 years making Franky Reproductions for Judah Guitars. I've had conversations with both Floyd Rose and J.T. I like 10-38s, they're both stable and bendable. Putting on 10s helped with that, but I really didn't like those gauges. All of them are floating and I find that bending strings with 9 s make the others strings go out of tune, which is bad when you bend one string and play a non-bent string the same time. I now have 3 Floyded guitars and I like 10-38 gauge GHS strings on them, I like them better than regular 9s. ![]() 46 on the low strings.Īre you kidding me:confused: I think just about every string manufacturer makes a set of 9-46 gauge strings, including D'Addario.īTW, I use Snake Oil Brand 9-42's on my one Floyded guitar. I like the easy bends on the higher strings, but the chunk of a. ![]()
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