MOTM

JWBarlow@... wrote:
> Strats have a longer scale (string length), and because of the string "Ts" 
> have higher
> tension on the strings, so it's always a bit of a fight to bend the strings.
> An old blues trick was/is to tune the guitar a half step lower (E flat) which
> makes the strings much easier to play. This originally started so guitar
> players (maybe guys like T. Bone Walker) could play more easily in horn keys
> (e.g., B flat, E flat). I'm quite sure Hendrix tuned like this, and I believe
> SRV did too -- so that's the part of using 12s that you don't hear about too
> much.
> 
I started doing it when I first started playing, mainly because every
Hendrix song I tried to copy was a half step flat. It stuck, and I
still do it today.

One thing I do when ever I have a guitar that need refretting is replace
the frets with the jumbo fret wire. With huge frets you can really get under
the string. I won't recommend it for thinner string gauges. You end up w/ 
something close to a scallop, and with thinner gauges chording can pull 
things out of tune. But w/ 011 the strings never actually touch the fretboard.

Has anyone run their guitar through the 410 yet? 
Thomas