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Thank to every one about the advice.  I just wish I knew better back then.  The guitar store I was talking about said all I needed was a fret job.  And boy did they ever do one, hardly any metal left.  Talk about a buzzing guitar.  I stopped going there after that but it sure did cost me the loss of a guitar that I loved.

Thanks again to everyone. 

On 2/16/2018 at 10:51 PM, Six String said:

Agree with most of the advice and definitely the comment that store ruined a perfectly good guitar for you.   If there was nothing wrong with the frets before the string change, there was nothing wrong with them after the change.  The guitar likely needed the bridge raised a hair or maybe a touch more tension on the truss rod.

As Ice9 said, going from .09's to .10's should not require much tweaking of the guitar. Going more that one size up or down, the nut slots may need work for the thicker strings. If going to much thinner strings you might have to have a new nut cut for the thinner strings.  

 

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16 minutes ago, Eracer_Team-DougH said:

Les Paul ruined by string change???

Yes it was.  The guitar store just cut off the old strings and put on the heaver ones.  It buzzed after that.  Then he told me it had to have a fret job.  So I said ok.  When I got it back it buzzed even worse and there were hardly any metal frets left, the were down to the wood.  So I sold the guitar, it was a Black Beauty, that I loved.

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Thank you for responding ice9.  My smallest string is 0.009 on my PRS custom 24.  I am more use to heaver gauge strings, but I dont want my guitar ruined like my Les Paul was. 

Thanks

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When one changes the thickness of the strings on a guitar does the guitar have to  re-set up just for them?