String gauges are usually referred to by the gauge of their lightest string.
Electric guitar string gauges.
Electric guitar strings are manufactured in a range of thicknesses or gauges.
String gauges string gauge refers to the size of the string as in how thick measured in thousandths of an inch.
The most popular string gauge set for 6 string electric guitar is 010 046.
These gauges are designated in thousandths of an inch.
The following is a list of the standard string gauges included with each set of electric guitar strings.
Typical set of extra super light electric strings 008 010 015 021 030 038 eight to thirty eights.
The 010 gauge string is the smallest referring to the first string and the 046 is the largest or sixth string.
When comparing string gauges you often hear labels such as.
And light strings for either can vary greatly between one manufacturer and another.
Note though that different manufacturers include slightly different string gauges in their sets of strings.
Extra light light medium however there are no set in stone definitions for any of these terms light strings on an electric guitar will have smaller gauges than light strings on an acoustic guitar.
The lightest strings are typically an 008 often referred to by guitarists as eights and the heaviest a 56 or fifty six.
A guitar string s gauge refers to the string s physical size given in inches.