Sabre strings 10s or 9s?

[SWRMM]

Wondering how many Sabre owners who were used to playing 9-42 gauge strings changed after bringing your Sabre home with stock 10s.

I have played 9s all my life, but the setup on my Sabre with 10s felt so good that I have been experimenting with 9s, 9.5s, and 10s. So far 9.5s have been a good balance to what I'm used to and the stock setup of the Sabre (albeit minor truss rod adjustments for each gauge set). I know a full setup will be needed if I end up with 9s or 9.5s.

For those who changed to 9s, was it fairly easy to dial in a good setup with truss rod and action height changes? I want to like the 10s but they're just a little too stiff with bends for me. I know I could get used to them but my other guitars have 9s so may be harder to switch between them. The 9.5s are a good compromise but they don't come in the RPS Slinky only the normal Slinky.

Would be great to hear from other Sabre owners and what string gauge you ended up with.

 

[wired]

I've also played 9-42 for 30+ years, but I think the stainless frets can definitely make it easier to go up a gauge, especially if they're higher profile frets. I left 10's on my Sabres for a while, but ended up settling on the EB Primo set 9.5-44.

 

[Astrofreq]

9s and remove a spring in the back for springy rock-mode.

 

[SWRMM]

Thanks for the replies! The 9.5-44 Primo is the set I tried and liked as a nice balance between 9s and 10s. I may go back to try the 9s again since I made my way back to 10s and know the 9.5s were good. I'm likely going to land on either 9s or 9.5s.

 

[Lucien2]

not hard. I didn't need to adjust the truss rod, just the bridge as less tension=more float

 

[SWRMM]

Thanks Jucien2, good to know. I did make very small truss rod adjustments but kept track of the original setting.

So for your bridge adjustment, is that made by tightening the tremolo springs? My strat has needed spring tension adjustments when I tried different gauges on it, and the spring adjustment was easy. Is it the same with the Sabre, just open back panel and tighten spring screws?

 

[Sweat]

Hybrid 8.5 for me

 

[BrianVanmatre]

Easy to do. Because less tension equals more float, I just needed to alter the bridge and not the truss rod. I searched online for the top resume writing services, and I came on a website where I could see the first company, resumesplanet, and read customer reviews of it. And from what I've read about other companies, they all offer top-notch writing services and will make your CV seem great. You can alos go there and chek out this website if you are searching on writing services.

 

[jayjayjay]

I haven't changed my strings yet (mostly b/c I'm lazy, I have several sets lying around), but I plan on keeping w/ 10's. I definitely feel the difference, especially compared to my Axis w/ 9's (which is made even lighter by a 2 spring trem setup that lifts if I bend over a step), but it's by no means uncomfortable. Also, I have a Gretsch that comes w/ 10s, although that's partially because it has a 24.6" scale.

The main reason I'm keeping w/ 10s is because I don't want to redo the intonation. String gauge can impact on that - I had to redo the intonation on my strat when I moved from 9-42s to hybrid 9-46s.

 

[Lucien2]

Thanks Jucien2, good to know. I did make very small truss rod adjustments but kept track of the original setting.

So for your bridge adjustment, is that made by tightening the tremolo springs? My strat has needed spring tension adjustments when I tried different gauges on it, and the spring adjustment was easy. Is it the same with the Sabre, just open back panel and tighten spring screws?

Yes you got it; less tension=more float so it was just a question of bringing the bridge back down a bit