everyone here at guitar tricks has been an awsome help. It's guys like you that keep beginers like me going. I get really frustrated from time to time trying to play chords smoothly and consistently sometimes, but you guys give me the motivation to keep trying.
That having been said. I have a bunch of different brands of strings to try out now. I have Fender tuner by the way. It cost me like 40 bucks or something. It gets the job done. I also was given a little suction cup thingy that i can put on my fender catilina and then into my tuner. I'm sure later on down the road, when i'm in my forties, playing with the boys out on the porch, that i won't be needing a tuner anymore and i'll be having arguments with these buddies all the time about how my ears are going and whatnot, but for now, the tuner does it's job.
I don't think i'll be doing any mod's to my guitar just yet. I think i'll learn some songs first, maybe play in a bar or 2 with some buddies and perhaps then i'll have a reason to upgrade, hehehe. Thanks again guys.
'Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday'