String Gauge/Tension Chart

It doesn't go high enough for me!!

 

what happened to the 0.012 and 0.0125 on the B string ...

 

I find a 12 is a great b string with 9 or 9.5 e string but appears almost nowhere as a set configuration. (??)

 

Here you go, calculate your own custom string sets.

http://www.kennaquhair.com/ustc.htm

 

It doesnt include pure nickel which have more tension than nickel/steel.

 

Are not all plain strings plain steel? All the same tension for the same gauge or differing alloys?

 

Ah I must've missed that in the first post.

 

Statement - I'm a nerdy/techy sort that appreciates this stuff. Thanks.
Questions -
Scale length?
Have you considered this being applied on a different instrument with even more lenth between the nut and tuning peg?
Or the length between the bridge saddle and where the ball hooks onto the guitar - think of a gretch with a bigsby
- I've played that guitar model and I think (haven't technically proven it...) the tension would be less.

 

Ah, musta' missed that part in the first post..or not.

 

I think you will find that the tension needed to draw a string to pitch over a given scale length remains consistent. Consider a FR vs trad Strat e string.
Ever tune a FR from the tuning pegs? Sure.
Then you clamp it down...no diff.

 

I have been thinking through this point - trying to figure what factors are involved.

Tension for a string over a length will be consistent. If nut to bridge saddle is 25 or whatever, the pitch/tension would be the same.

- If I apply a slide (ie - reduce the scale length) the pitch increases with the shortness of the scale; the slide taking the place of the nut.

Feel of the strings or, the ease at which a string can be manipulated in a perpendicular direction is different.
- if there's a big length between the nut (not locked) and the pegs or the saddle and the hook behind that for the ball, that allows for those lengths to stretch as the string is manipulated/bent within the nut/bridgesaddle portion of the string.
- locking nut would eliminate that length beyond the nut...
- the amount of springs or tightness of the springs are also a factor here. If you have less tension holding the vibrato bridge, then bends would pull it forward

So less number of vibrato springs, longer length of string beyond the nut and bridge would feel like the strings had less tension. But that's not the at rest level of tension. When you're not touching the strings and it returns to pitch, the tension is the same.

Anyway - this has been on my mind as I'm bringing a couple old guitars to life - with FR vibrato setups and long spans beyond the nut and/or bridge...

So, maybe I'm a lamen sitting on a bar stool explaining this between sips of beer, but so far those basic peices seem right to me in my head...

HEAD!