Who uses 11s on a Tele?

dwheeldo

11s on both my Tele and my ES-339, and I like the action quite high. I like to feel like I'm wrestling the sound out of my guitars

Sassafras

There's a rumour that Andy Summers use 11s on his Tele but no-one's managed to get a straight answer out of him without him going ballistic and attacking the interviewer with a rusty breadknife.

rico

Update: I put 11s on the Tele and it was the best decision ever. 

pintspiller

I am a D'Addario user. Have been for years. I always found Ernie Balls to be too slinky. As I was playing Gordon-Smith and Gibson Guitars, when I decided it necessary to rest ring my Peavey Rockingham I opened to use EB instead of changing the gauge and it worked fine.

DarnWeight

Always.

Used EB Powers for years when I was gigging regularly, but lately have been trying out some D'Addario sets...the balanced tension EXL115BT set (11-50) are working out very nice on my main Tele, and the 115W set are brilliant on Ric 6s.  

The_Ethical

I've used Ernie Ball 2215 Skinny Top/Heavy Bottom 10-52s on my Strats and Teles for many years now. The y just seem to work best for me.

maw4neu

11's on a Telecaster and a Stratocaster  . . . . these days anyway . . . 10's on a Lester :-) but everyone has a preference so there's no right and no wrong really . . . I've always gone with Ernie Ball Power Slinky at 11-48 . . . 

axisus

I have 9s on everything. It's a MAJOR risk to my guitar playing to go up so I would never consider it. I've had BIG probs in the past with my 'bending' nails separating from the nail bed, causing unbelievable pain and rendering playing nigh on impossible for weeks at a time. Been 'stable' for a few years thank goodness.

Neill

IMHO the greatest guitarist who ever picked up a Telecaster was Mick Green and he used monster strings, most believe the top E was 16 guage.  

I don't know these days but certainly back in the 70's there was a fashion for replacing the wound third on a heavy set of strings with a second B string.  Pete Townshend among others did this.  Not Mick Green.  He could do all that string bending with the standard set.  He didn't detune either  eg like Stevie Ray Vaughn  grrrrr....  

The only other guitarist I've heard of using strings this heavy is Mike Henderson and he has a super distinctive sound too, albeit in open tuning.  

Joey2014

11's on an Esquire user here. The resonant qualities associated with heavier strings are even more apparent when combined with the pre-existing twang.