Question for Big Poppa: How are strings made?

[greenwizard]

Question for Big Poppa: How are strings made?

Well whitestrat my boy,
You see sometimes a string-man and a string-woman meet each other, and they start feeling a certain feeling for one another and...

[Jodizzle]

^ Holy nickel plated steel Poppa, we're swimming in string-babies!!!

[Warg Master]

Well whitestrat my boy,
You see sometimes a string-man and a string-woman meet each other, and they start feeling a certain feeling for one another and...

I like this explanation better... it's got more of a....hmmm. what's the word...... uh............. pokey?

[cjoz]

Midopa ....

http://www.ernieball.com/products/st...ickel-strings/




Some dealers aren't aware that we still make these babies. Request em!! Every dealer that stocks EB has the ability to get em.

Hey Aussies
We've got them - contact CMC Music or your local EB dealer.

[Spudmurphy]

I've been playing the Stainless Steel strings on my AL for a while now and enjoyed them.

I've just gone back to RPS and will have to try out those classics to remind me of when I played "in anger" !

[robobass13]

When my dad first started the wound strings were a round core and a pure nickel wrap.
As wire drawing (the process where the steel rods are drawn down to the correct size ) got more sophisticated they became hex core...then the trend went to a nickel plated steel (slinkys) on the hex wire. The plain strings are virtually the same

the original wound strings were made by hand and now the wound strings are made utilising servo motors and computer controls for both wire tension and wrap consistancy

sorry BP if this has been answered but, is this true for the regular bass slinkys as well?

[Big Poppa]

yes