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Yo Bill,
When I spoke of longevity, I wasn't implying that Ernie Ball made flat wounds. I
was saying that I haven't had longevity problems with most guitar strings and I
suspect that part of that is due to the use of Finger-ease and clean hands.
I like both flat-wound and round wound strings. On a Tele I like light-gaged
round wounds. I have Strats strung with 13 - 56, one with flats and one with
roundwounds. For Jazzmasters, I like 11 flats.
-Marty
----- Original Message -----
From: supertwangreverb
To:
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 9:29 AM
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: In the bowels of the ($399) beast(STRINGS)
Marty,
I got my information finger-ease from a respected Rickenbacker
luthier on the voxtalks.com a few years back. There is another
product called fastfret as well which I've heard is not good for the
frets. What it does if over sprayed on the fretboard it saturates
and gets under the frets making it harder to pull them off.
As for the "tall tales" on the Pyramids it's your loss until you try
them. As I stated in the tone thread I like to try things out with
my rig, instead of writting them off as "bull." Do you use
roundwound or flatwound strings? You said you had no trouble with
the longevity of Ernie Balls, I thought I had tried every flatwound
brand out there. If you don't like flatwound strings then I take
back my Pyramid recommendation.
Regards,
Bill
--- In , "Marty Tippens"
<mctippens@e...> wrote:
> Respectfully , Bill,
>
> That's a load-a-bull! I've been using Finger-ease since the early
70's and I've never heard a guitar tech complain about gunk building
up under frets making them hard to remove. If you have a tech telling
you that, get a new tech.
>
> Tall tales like this make me believe that your glowing praise of
Pyramid strings is a bit overstated. Never-the-less, if I find a set
at a resonable price, I will try them and give my honest review.
>
> I have had no problem with the longevity of D'Addarios, or even
Ernie Balls or Fender strings for that matter.
>
> -Marty
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: supertwangreverb
> To:
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 8:30 AM
> Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: In the bowels of the ($399) beast
(STRINGS)
>
>
>
> <<$23.50 for a set of guitar strings?!! Yes, I know they are pure
> nickel. Yes I
> know you say they last longer. But I get very good life out of my
> D'Addario's.
> I use clean hands and Finger-ease regularly which reduces
friction
> thus keeping
> the strings purdy clean.>>
>
> The Pyramids should last 2-3 times longer than the D'addarios.
This
> will make up the price difference! Plus your guitar is going to
> sound better! I used to use D'addarios, I'll admit my spare set
is
> D'addarios, but those strings BLOW! They are too thick and they
have
> too much tension, and again they will wear down your frets faster.
>
> Finger-ease is something you do not want to use, I have been told
by
> many techs that they HATE doing fret work on guitars that have
been
> sprayed with that stuff. It gunks up under frets and makes it
tough
> to pull them off...I used it all the time on my Rickenbacker and
I
> had a tech tell me he would not touch that guitar.
>
> If you get Pyramids wipe them down when you finish playing and
rub
> lighter fluid onto them once a week.
>
> Bill
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