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GHS Tension Chart is Available

Jon Moody

Jon Moody

Sep 9, 2007
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Endorsing Artist: Eventide, GHS Strings, G&L Guitars, NS Design, Tsunami Cables
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I would've posted this sooner, but we are in the process of revamping our website (so the issue of where to put this came up), knee-deep into NAMM prep as well as learning how to write up specs for strings, it took a back seat for a bit.

But hey, it's a good Christmas present to the TB family, so here you go.

I spent a good three months getting all of the preliminary information together, checked it, redid all of it, checked it again, etc..

So, enjoy.
 

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shawshank72 said:
Thank you.
Also a question
Why dont you make 50 g strings?
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While we don't have .050 gauges in ALL our sets, we do offer them for our Super Steels, Boomers and Brite Flats.


Geni758 said:
Very cool. Especially like the info about alternate tunings. Thanks for the info!
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Thanks, glad you found that part useful.
 
#14
Excellent work and thank you so much!
Very nearly the best tension chart, i would prefer tensions for sharps/flats but understand these were left out for clarity and because of the design of the chart, i am very pleased to see you provide unit weight values for those of us who want to calculate the missing values.
jasper383 said:
It appears the GHS tensions and the D'Addario tensions are very similar. Makes sense.
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Heh :) actually i get the opposite impression, i have been surprised by the amount of variation this shows between differing brands of the same gauge/string type.
However the variation is still not huge, using tension charts for other brands is still very useful for getting *close* to what you want, but i must stress it is essential to perfect a set by trial and error and by feel, with no pre-conceived ideas as to what is optimal, this is how i discovered and converted to inverse tension, when i thought that balanced was optimum.
 
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ixlramp said:
Excellent work and thank you so much!
Very nearly the best tension chart, i would prefer tensions for sharps/flats but understand these were left out for clarity and because of the design of the chart, i am very pleased to see you provide unit weight values for those of us who want to calculate the missing values.
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Well, after talking with you about that, it was only right to have the unit weights there so you COULD find out what those sharp/flat notes are for those tunings.

Depending on demand, I could make up an expanded version that was just the table, that had those as well. Not sure how easily it would print per se, but if you're looking at it on a computer screen, it doesn't matter.


ixlramp said:
Heh :) actually i get the opposite impression, i have been surprised by the amount of variation this shows between differing brands of the same gauge/string type.
However the variation is still not huge, using tension charts for other brands is still very useful for getting *close* to what you want, but i must stress it is essential to perfect a set by trial and error and by feel, with no pre-conceived ideas as to what is optimal, this is how i discovered and converted to inverse tension, when i thought that balanced was optimum.
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I learned an exhaustive amount of string making knowledge while making this table, and the key is that little changes have big effects.

In regard to tension charts between companies, you're seeing something as simple as going from a .023 to .024 for the core wire (those are used as examples, since that type of knowledge is proprietary) yield a 4lb difference in tension between two different brands of .060 gauge.

And a gigantic +1 to perfecting your ideal string set by feel. That's more important than anything else; make a set that you like. Or, grab a pre-packaged set. Just play.
 
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GHS Official said:
Well, after talking with you about that, it was only right to have the unit weights there so you COULD find out what those sharp/flat notes are for those tunings.
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Of course if you give us the tension for any scale length and tuning we could have back calculated the unit weight but it is nice not to have to do that work!

I tune in fifths so I depend on data like this and individual string sales to get me useable sets of strings. I've been using GHS strings exclusively and depending on data from other brands to get me in the ball park so I am delighted to have official data from GHS! Data is the best Christmas present you can give an engineer....
 

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