Electric Guitar Single Strings

Singles exist for three reasons: you broke one string and don't want to spend a full set, you are building a custom gauge combination no manufacturer makes, or you are chasing a tuning that needs one string heavier than any standard set provides. We stock all three cases.

Plain or wound

Plain steel singles run .008 to .026 and cover every unwound string on an electric guitar. Wound singles start at .018 and go up. Between .018 and .026 you can buy either, and that overlap is deliberate — it is where the wound-versus-plain third string argument lives. A plain .018 G bends easily and sounds brighter; a wound .018 or .020 G is warmer, rounder and the vintage choice.

Half gauges

Our plain steel singles include .0095, .0105 and .0115. If a .009 set feels slack and a .010 set feels stiff, a half gauge on the top two or three strings is the fix, and it is the reason a lot of players buy singles in the first place.

What we stock

Nickel-plated steel is the warmer, more familiar wrap. Stainless is brighter and harder-hitting. Plain steel singles are the same string whichever line you play, so there is only one plain steel product.

Going heavy

The nickel wound singles run to .080 and the stainless to .074, which is well past anything in our standard six-string sets. Those are for baritones, for seven and eight-string guitars, and for drop tunings where a set's lowest string is still too loose. If you are building a set for a scale length longer than 25.5", singles are usually the only way to get it right.

Made in the USA.