String choice is partly a matter of how often one plays. I like a medium gauge set that's on the heavy side to extract as much sound as possible from the instrument. When I'm not playing much—like now—I also like to have them last a little while. Right now, I'm playing SIT Royal Bronze medium (RL-1356) on my Dreadnought but when I was playing all the time and changing strings at least once a week I bought all my strings from Massachusetts guitar maker James Boyce. He claimed to have designed the strings and they really sounded great. They were also cheap enough that I didn't have to agonize over the cost of replacing them.

I'm using Thomastik flat-wound jazz strings on my tele. It has a humbucker at the fingerboard position and like the clean fat sound and fast feel.

I don't pick up my banjo very often any more but I still keep Vega Light Gauge V700's on it. Obvously, I don't play much clawhammer style.

      - Mark