Mustang RI Bass strings

[Ruiner]

I recently bought one of the string through body Japanese RI Mustangs and I'm having a nightmare trying to find strings that both fit and intonate correctly (short scale strings too short, regular scale don't seem to intonate properly)

After following the advice in this thread,

[url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f16/share-what-strings-do-do-not-fit-**-intonate-fender-mustang-reissue-758438/"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f16/share-what-strings-do-do-not-fit-**-intonate-fender-mustang-reissue-758438/[/url]

I bought a set of medium scale D'Addario's (EXL160M) but the E string tapers in front of the nut

Does the E string taper look a bit on the short side to anyone else (compared to the A and D strings) making this a one off dodgy set or am I back to square one with my search?

Any advice greatly appreciated.

[bigsmokebass]

I don't know a lot about short scales but this looks tedious :-/

All the best with it

BSB

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='Ruiner' timestamp='1347121191' post='1797198']
I recently bought one of the string through body Japanese RI Mustangs and I'm having a nightmare trying to find strings that both fit and intonate correctly (short scale strings too short, regular scale don't seem to intonate properly)

After following the advice in this thread,

[url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f16/share-what-strings-do-do-not-fit-**-intonate-fender-mustang-reissue-758438/"]http://www.talkbass....reissue-758438/[/url]

I bought a set of medium scale D'Addario's (EXL160M) but the E string tapers in front of the nut

Does the E string taper look a bit on the short side to anyone else (compared to the A and D strings) making this a one off dodgy set or am I back to square one with my search?

Any advice greatly appreciated.
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I've never used a Mustang but I believe the Thomastik Jazz Flat 324 set fit, so you're probably right to be looking at medium scale.