Strings - what a difference

[TOSHI]

I have an all hog D25 and use SIT STRINGS/GB1048 GOLDEN BRONZE 80/20. It's not as famous as D'Addario or DR, but its gorgeous high notes make both chords and arpeggios feel good. The stability of tuning is also something to complain about. I really like this string because it doesn't change much over time. I felt it was a great match for an all-mahogany guitar.

 

[chazmo]

I have an all hog D25 and use SIT STRINGS/GB1048 GOLDEN BRONZE 80/20. It's not as famous as D'Addario or DR, but its gorgeous high notes make both chords and arpeggios feel good. The stability of tuning is also something to complain about. I really like this string because it doesn't change much over time. I felt it was a great match for an all-mahogany guitar.

I've never even heard of these, Toshi. And it looks like they manufacture in the US (unless they're buying from someone else). I can't believe I'm learning about a new string company today!

 

[Westerly Wood]

Worked on me. My wounds're fraying like split ends at all my favorite frets and the unwounds look like tinsel. They transmit the state of my health exceedingly well.

Think the F65ce's due to replace those silk'n'steels I put on her back in 2016. Think they're up to a couple hundred hours now. Bass players ask me how to get better string life.

Speaking of which.... it's that bass playing thing that finally gotcha unhooked, isn't it?

I too have gone down the silk and steel path my friend, and always turn back. Maybe they are too thin or weak, hard to say.
I am struggling however with light gauge now. Not too bad, but I think I need to walk back over to Jeff's house and the .11-.52s
I am just getting old...

 

[Westerly Wood]

I have an all hog D25 and use SIT STRINGS/GB1048 GOLDEN BRONZE 80/20. It's not as famous as D'Addario or DR, but its gorgeous high notes make both chords and arpeggios feel good. The stability of tuning is also something to complain about. I really like this string because it doesn't change much over time. I felt it was a great match for an all-mahogany guitar.

I too like the SITs and often, they are super affordable on Amazon Prime. I have tried the .11-.50s on my D25 flat. I disagree that they stay in tune however. lol. I have debunked that theory.

 

[dwasifar]

I've used SIT in the past. Usetabe they were the factory strings on G&L guitars.

They're okay, IMO. Nothing special.

 

[dwasifar]

I am struggling however with light gauge now. Not too bad, but I think I need to walk back over to Jeff's house and the .11-.52s
I am just getting old...

At 62 I am still playing 13s. Waiting for my luck to run out.

This brings up a question, though. I'm going to start another thread, on the topic: is guitar an old man's instrument now?

 

[Westerly Wood]

At 62 I am still playing 13s. Waiting for my luck to run out.

This brings up a question, though. I'm going to start another thread, on the topic: is guitar an old man's instrument now?

Nah, it's for everybody.
I do miss EJ 17s

 

[Wilmywood]

I currently use EJ24s, or what D'Addario calls a 'true' medium. The A,D and G strings are all a few thousandths lighter than the EJ17s. High and low E and B are the same.

I also, due to my rheumatoid arthritis and the headstock fracture repair on my G37, I tune them down 2 steps to a C to C. It takes the neck tension from 117 lbs with extra light 10s down to 110 lbs, and also allows me to play my cowboy chords to sing my favorite Eagles tunes.

 

[Westerly Wood]

I currently use EJ24s, or what D'Addario calls a 'true' medium. The A,D and G strings are all a few thousandths lighter than the EJ17s. High and low E and B are the same.

I also, due to my rheumatoid arthritis and the headstock fracture repair on my G37, I tune them down 2 steps to a C to C. It takes the neck tension from 117 lbs with extra light 10s down to 110 lobs, and also allows me to play my cowboy chords to sing my favorite Eagles tunes.

It's like a Laurence Juber set.

 

[schoolie]

I use a set of D'Addario EJ24 string gauges, but 80/20 rather than PB. I haven't found anything that I like better, although the John Pearse 310NM strings sounds pretty good to me, and are a bit more economical than a custom set. I wish D'Addario would make the EJ24 set with 80/20.

 

[Wilmywood]

I use a set of D'Addario EJ24 string gauges, but 80/20 rather than PB. I haven't found anything that I like better, although the John Pearse 310NM strings sounds pretty good to me, and are a bit more economical than a custom set. I wish D'Addario would make the EJ24 set with 80/20.

D'Addario has the 80/20 EJ12 mediums 13-56 in single packs for $5.39 and 3 packs for $16.17 on Amazon

Amazon.com

They have slightly different D,A and G strings than the EJ24 I think

 

[Boomstick]

Now the real question is whatever happened to Guild branded guitar strings? I think they died when they closed the Westerly plant.

 

[Wilmywood]

Now the real question is whatever happened to Guild branded guitar strings? I think they died when they closed the Westerly plant.

They may well have been rebranded D'Addarios although in the Fender years they may have come from Fender's Mexico strings factory

 

[Boomstick]

They may well have been rebranded D'Addarios although in the Fender years they may have come from Fender's Mexico strings factory

I honestly can't recall specifically what they sounded like it's been so long since I used them.

 

[adorshki]

Now the real question is whatever happened to Guild branded guitar strings? I think they died when they closed the Westerly plant.

No, they were carried over into Corona but Fender switched from D'Addario to their own Squier in-house Mexican factory and changed the "G" to an .024, and then dropped Guild-branded strings in Tacoma.
Tacoma spec sheets showed the .025 (D'A) G in the Guild L350 string set for a couple of years after the switch, while packaging reflected the .024's.

In fact it was that change to the .024 that led me to look for a single PB .025, and discover that D'A EJ-16's were the same as the original L350's except for that .025G had to buy a single. But alloy color matched an old set of L350 I'd stashed, and was "redder" than the Squier sets. Been buyin' 'em that way ever since, except for experiments with S&S and Silk & Bronze.

They brought back D'Addario in New Hartford, going to coated medium PB as the factory spec gauge, and even introducing a "balanced tension set". Dropped when NH closed. Doubt D'A'll talk to 'em about any more private branding, what's the point?

 

[adorshki]

They may well have been rebranded D'Addarios although in the Fender years they may have come from Fender's Mexico strings factory

See my post 95

 

[adorshki]

I honestly can't recall specifically what they sounded like it's been so long since I used them.

The Squiers were duller than the D'A's, it was what made me look at a new set I'd just installed to see if something had changed and I noticed the gauge switch, but no other packaging change . Effin' Fender.

 

[adorshki]

I too like the SITs and often, they are super affordable on Amazon Prime. I have tried the .11-.50s on my D25 flat. I disagree that they stay in tune however. lol. I have debunked that theory.

It's not the strings it's the nut slots. You just need plenty of nut slot lube.

 

[Boomstick]

No, they were carried over into Corona but Fender switched from D'Addario to their own Squier in-house Mexican factory and changed the "G" to an .024, and then dropped Guild-branded strings in Tacoma.

Interesting. The stores in the area that carried them dropped them right around the time the Westerly plant closed, so I had always thought they went out together.

 

[TOSHI]

I too have gone down the silk and steel path my friend, and always turn back. Maybe they are too thin or weak, hard to say.
I am struggling however with light gauge now. Not too bad, but I think I need to walk back over to Jeff's house and the .11-.52s
I am just getting old...

It has good silk & steel strings.
Silk and steel strings were developed by Yamaha.
Yamaha calls them compound strings.MIJ.
Yamaha's compound strings are softer than Martin's silk light strings, and are much easier to play over long periods of time.
Please try once.