On Saturday, 14 April 2018 at 03:38:02 UTC+7, Joey Goldstein wrote:

On 2018-04-13 1:42 PM, van wrote:

It seems that Ed's choice of strings is more complicated than, "He uses .010s .011s or .012s.
A dude that knows him well said that he spoke to Reg Schwaeger about it, and Reg said something like, "I just buy a set of strings, Ed sure doesn't..."

The mystery continues...

Lorne Lofsky once told me that he used the same gauge as Ed:
.012 to .052, with a plain .020 G.
That's what I use nowadays too.
Lorne's just gone up to a .013 for the high E. fyi

But the 12th Fret (a local pro guitar shop that used to do all of Ed's
work) just put out an Ed Bickert tribute Tele, and they claim his "favourite" set of strings was .010 to .046.
I just don't hear the lighter strings when I listen to Ed so I'm gonna
stick with the .012 to .052s.

Note: With these gauges, string-to-string balance can get out of whack, especially the G which is quite a bit louder than the rest.
Supposedly, Ed put the humbucker on his Tele, not for tone, but to
achieve better string balance.
I'd like to see a pic of how he set the G string's pole piece on his humbucker.
But he probably didn't futz with it all if I know Ed.
On *my* jazz-Teles it's sunk quite deep below the cover.

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Aug 10, 2023
Update on Lorne's string gauges. I messaged him and he told me:

"Just for the record, for quite some time, I’ve been using.013-.056 with a plain .022 G string and Seymour Duncan Cool Rail pickups.. works for me…."

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