9s or 10s on your Les Paul?

[Steven K]

Great post gitmo Gibson's generally are shorter scale necks than Fender. Easier to play "slightly" heavier gauged strings.

 

[Hiwatts-n-Gibsons]

It's an interesting list, but doesn't unfortunately (as noted above) take account of things like scale length, tuning or simply what were available "packaged sets" at the time (the Hendrix 10-38, for example, was the then common Fender F150 set) - at the end of the day a lot of these (variables allowed for) are going to come out at the sort of tension you'd get with 10/11 high E sets on a standard Gibson scale I suspect.

I have went as high as 11's on my Strat before, but settled on 10's for both Gibson and Fender scale instruments set up in E std. The slight increase in tension is more than made up for in both the ease of digging in on a Fender neck and in the case of Strats the give of the traditional spring tensioned vibrato.

 

[Hiwatts-n-Gibsons]

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[Wilko]

It's an interesting list, but doesn't unfortunately (as noted above) take account of things like scale length, tuning or simply what were available "packaged sets" at the time (the Hendrix 10-38, for example, was the then common Fender F150 set) - at the end of the day a lot of these (variables allowed for) are going to come out at the sort of tension you'd get with 10/11 high E sets on a standard Gibson scale I suspect.

We know what instruments most on the list are using. I editied out a lot of specific info as it's mostly superfluous.

 

[Chronomariner]

Guitars like an LP with the same scale length and bridge, I always use 10s.
Anything else with a tremolo I use 9s.
I tried 8s for a while but it just felt like slapping wet noodles. Well maybe not that bad but I didn’t like it

 

[Tsongas]

Got my first Les Paul recently and it came with .010-.046. This is the gauge I use on my Telecaster, which is what I have always played, and so far it is working well on the Les Paul. I'm tuned down 1/2 step because that is what works best for the vocalists I perform with. I used the same gauge on my Telecaster in the past when in standard tuning.