What strings do you use? (metal, quote, hands, Hang)

Crawldaddy · 04-03-2006, 02:04 AM

Hmm.

What kind of strings would do you guys use? Just a checking of preferences, btw.

Cheers,

Crawldaddy

Spikey · 04-03-2006, 02:29 AM

Eddie ball, I use heavy a gauge but 9s are best

PerFeCTioNThrUSileNCe · 04-03-2006, 05:40 PM

^HAHAHAHAHAHA

thats ERNIE.

good to see you back spikey.

ernie balls just dont do it for me. i bent a string in half playing them. so...i stopped using those. i tried blue steel and GHS....but i find that elixirs are the best. they last forever. the only reason i would ever use blue steel again is the sound they give. i use 11's on my strat and 9's on my esp. theyre a little light for metal but the floyd makes 'em work.

littleknowitall · 04-03-2006, 05:46 PM

in not fussy, i've always just baught super slinkys, who the hell's gonna notice the difference anyway.

mosesandtherubberducky · 04-03-2006, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by moley

in not fussy, i've always just baught super slinkys, who the hell's gonna notice the difference anyway.

My thoughts exactly. You pay $4 at the most for a set that will last you around a month. The only difference is the guage size. I'm not spending $11 for a pack of strings that feel the same. Oh and I use Ernie Ball Regular Slinky (the green pack)

littleknowitall · 04-03-2006, 06:03 PM

and strings down here at their cheapest are £7 for me. i can't find them any cheaper and they're the same ones your using and with the exchange rate you can times that by a half if you want to convert into dollars, see, i have no choice, the cost of strings is putting me slowly under the poverty line.

PerFeCTioNThrUSileNCe · 04-03-2006, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by mosesandtherubberducky

My thoughts exactly. You pay $4 at the most for a set that will last you around a month. The only difference is the guage size. I'm not spending $11 for a pack of strings that feel the same. Oh and I use Ernie Ball Regular Slinky (the green pack)

the only reason i pay the extra money for the elixirs is because they dont get all crusty and gritty after a few weeks. just...personal preference i guess, but i hate when strings get like that.

mosesandtherubberducky · 04-03-2006, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by PerFeCTioNThrUSileNCe

the only reason i pay the extra money for the elixirs is because they dont get all crusty and gritty after a few weeks. just...personal preference i guess, but i hate when strings get like that.

Mine do it within 8 days of putting them on. Party because I have clamy handsxcore and partly because I don't have anything to clean them with.

PerFeCTioNThrUSileNCe · 04-03-2006, 06:15 PM

^exactly. i rarely clean my strings. ill wipe them down with my shirt when im done playing but other than that...i havent cleaned them for about a month.

if you dont want to spend the extra money, get "finger ease". its this spray on stuff (i forget exactly whats in it) but it cleans up the strings really well.

tdoc210 · 04-03-2006, 06:16 PM

i dunno i think silver bullets

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tdoc210 ashes against the grain Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: new hampsha Posts: 2,617	i dunno i think silver bullets __________________ We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that.

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littleknowitall Pow! Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,671	in not fussy, i've always just baught super slinkys, who the hell's gonna notice the difference anyway.

04-03-2006, 06:03 PM	#6 (permalink)
littleknowitall Pow! Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,671	and strings down here at their cheapest are £7 for me. i can't find them any cheaper and they're the same ones your using and with the exchange rate you can times that by a half if you want to convert into dollars, see, i have no choice, the cost of strings is putting me slowly under the poverty line.