Hi Alkay, looks like some of the other guys helped you out with great advice and tips today.

Curious about your comments that it takes a decent amount of pressure to do an open chord? That sounds like ultra heavy gauge strings or possibly over tightened and therefore tuned past 440hz pitch?

I have 9-42 on the EX-1 and 10-46 on the Slash epi LP where the lighter ones I am more used to and feel more comfortable with and the 10's do take just a little bit more effort but the trade off is a much more mellow tone. Seems to reason that 10's on 24.75' scaled Gibbos is the go whilst you can get away with 9's on 25.5' scaled Fenders as they require just a bit more tension to tune up.