Volt
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Please add me to the list of players who would like a string set based on a 0.0095" high-E string. 9's are too light, and 10's are slightly too heavy.
That is all
Voltaire
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Voltaire
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TNT
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Ok, I will.
However, might we assume the remaining strings would be???:
11
14
22
30
40
However, might we assume the remaining strings would be???:
11
14
22
30
40
RocketRalf
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Play 11s for a while. Then put back 10s, and you'll see they're just the right tension
paranoid70
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I'm in to try out some Semi-Super Slinkys.
GHWelles
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Please add me to the list of players who would like a string set based on a 0.0095" high-E string. 9's are too light, and 10's are slightly too heavy.
That is all
Voltaire
Put on .10's and down tune one half step.
Jimmyb
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^ I'm sure I read that on here as well.
PeteDuBaldo
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Yes, that's the tolerance for the machines that make the wire/strings.
paranoid70
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Not to sound like a manufacturing geek or anything, but standard deviation and tolerance are not the same thing. Tolerance would be the specification. That is, the string manufactuer guarantees the thickness of a 9 guage string to be between .0085 to .0095".
Standard deviation on the other hand is the variation of the process. Think of the standard bell curve distribution. For a 'normal' process, over 99% of the manufactured products are within +/- 3 standard deviations. Thus, EB's standard deviation is likely much lower than .0005" if that is the tolerance. (Else they would be throwing away a lot of scrap... which I doubt.) For a quality/high volume manufacturer, the standard deviation should move as low as 1/6 the tolerance.
Standard deviation on the other hand is the variation of the process. Think of the standard bell curve distribution. For a 'normal' process, over 99% of the manufactured products are within +/- 3 standard deviations. Thus, EB's standard deviation is likely much lower than .0005" if that is the tolerance. (Else they would be throwing away a lot of scrap... which I doubt.) For a quality/high volume manufacturer, the standard deviation should move as low as 1/6 the tolerance.
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DrKev
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9-5s are the work of the devil. Balls are best and Ernie never did no 9-5s.
TNT
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Wonder, I thought you knew "physics"!!!! lol,lol,lol,lol
The more tension on the string and the tighter you stretch it the "smaller" the diameter gets, so if you tune "down", (as you suggested from 10's) the string diameter actually expands larger, (and you would end up with 10.5 not 9.5)
I thought for sure you knew this!!!!
LOL
RocketRalf
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Wonder, I thought you knew "physics"!!!! lol,lol,lol,lol
The more tension on the string and the tighter you stretch it the "smaller" the diameter gets, so if you tune "down", (as you suggested from 10's) the string diameter actually expands larger, (and you would end up with 10.5 not 9.5)
I thought for sure you knew this!!!!
LOL
If you tune DOWN, you're taking away tension from the string, so it feels like a lighter gauge...
PeteDuBaldo
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TNT, the only way the diameter will increase is if the string were compressed. Tuning it to a lower pitch won't cause the diameter to increase, while it is possible that increasing tension will ever so slightly cause the diameter to shrink. With the strings being made out of steel, this would be a negligible difference in diameter, and would be extremely difficult to measure. I'm sure that is why the strings are made out of steel!
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GHWelles
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Wonder, I thought you knew "physics"!!!! lol,lol,lol,lol
The more tension on the string and the tighter you stretch it the "smaller" the diameter gets, so if you tune "down", (as you suggested from 10's) the string diameter actually expands larger, (and you would end up with 10.5 not 9.5)
I thought for sure you knew this!!!!
LOL
I don't know about that, I mean if you downtune strings they feel easier to bend and play. So you can use a heavier gauge.
TNT
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Yes, you are correct in what you say above, but that is not what we were discussing!! lol,lol,lol
We were discussing "diameter". lol,lol,lol
TNT
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Yeah Pete,
Basically that is what I was saying too. If you take a string out of a new pack and somehow micro measure the diameter, then you put a 15lb. weight on the end of the string, the diameter will get micro smalller, it has too, you are "stretching" the string.
However, as you said.... the diameter cannot get any larger from what it was out of the new pack; it can only return to that size once you take the weight off.
Ease of bending a string has to do with "tension" and "scale" length.
Basically that is what I was saying too. If you take a string out of a new pack and somehow micro measure the diameter, then you put a 15lb. weight on the end of the string, the diameter will get micro smalller, it has too, you are "stretching" the string.
However, as you said.... the diameter cannot get any larger from what it was out of the new pack; it can only return to that size once you take the weight off.
Ease of bending a string has to do with "tension" and "scale" length.
DTJPPR
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I want a 9.5-44 Set, haha. I'm just real picky, though. 9.5, 11, 14, 22, 34, 44.
TNT
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Bruce I like your choices!
I'm not really sure which way I would actually go if the race started with a 9.5, just not sure how much fat I want on the wound strings(??)
I'm not really sure which way I would actually go if the race started with a 9.5, just not sure how much fat I want on the wound strings(??)
