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Originally Posted by MattM
I use John Pearse 80/20s on my rosewood J-45. To me the improvement over lights on this guitar is night and day. Ren Furguson once told me he thinks the .13s sound especially good on the 45Rs due to the darker sounding rosewood (said it makes them "less introverted" or something like that).
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I use medium gauge John Pearse phosphor bronze on my Gibson Advanced Jumbo, and so far that's what my new AJ-inspired Howard Klepper "KJ" has had on it, too (though it's been in California so far, and not up here where I can experiment with gauges and alloys.)
Rosewood guitars often sound best to my ear with 80/20 alloy strings on them, but I always try both alloys on any new guitar, just to check. I get surprised often enough by which alloy turns out to sound best on any given guitar that I never just assume one or the other will be best, I always try both.
whm