Silk and Bronze .13s?

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.12-.53 is their heaviest. they call it light/medium for the silks but we know they are really lights.
very nice strings by the way, by far best silks out there IMHO.
 
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Just for the sake of my limited experience with them, what guitar(s) are you guys using the silks on?
 
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I've used the light and medium-light S&Bs from GHS, Pearse, Martin, and Thomastik on all of my flat-tops--Guilds, Martins, ancient Washburns, Goodall, Cloutier. I like the sound just fine, and they wear reasonably well.

There is one "heavy" S&B set, the Tomastik Plectrum series 013-061 set (AC113T), which also mixes flatwound ADG with a roundwound low E. Thomastiks are famously pricey but very nice. Despite the name, they're not really for archtop guitars--though apparently some players have used them so.
 
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Russell Letson said:
I've used the light and medium-light S&Bs from GHS, Pearse, Martin, and Thomastik on all of my flat-tops--Guilds, Martins, ancient Washburns, Goodal, Cloutierl. I like the sound just fine, and they wear reasonably well.
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Which martin did you use the Flex core or Marquis, how do you think they compared to the GHS?
 
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Though I've been generally indifferent to Martin strings, the Flexible Core Silk & Phosphor seem to be quite close to the GHS 11-49 set, which have been my go-to S&Bs for years. Partly, to be sure, because of local availability, but they're also reliable.
 
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Russell Letson said:
Though I've been generally indifferent to Martin strings, the Flexible Core Silk & Phosphor seem to be quite close to the GHS 11-49 set, which have been my go-to S&Bs for years. Partly, to be sure, because of local availability, but they're also reliable.
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Thanks, I like the GHS, so I will give those a try.
 
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