Hey

So I finally got my new strings on to my stratocaster.. anyway, I read on this site somewhere that one of the instructors uses a .20 unwound string for the D (3rd) string, so I tried it.. only problem is, the string is taking AAAGGGESS to settle down.. every time I tune it, it's out of tune less than a minute later. I've tried stretching the strings, like I always do with new strings and it works for the other strings but not this one.

Is there something extra I need to do with this string, since it's unwound etc?

What about intonation? how important is that? I noticed a few of the strings now are a little sharp on the 12th fret but not by much... is it worth fiddling around with the intonation, with the potential of messing it up, to get it close-to perfect? The intonation tutorial looks easy enough.. but yeh..