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03-30-2013, 09:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Caldwell, NJ, USA | | | Did i really just get two sets of fender flats with the same defect or are these ok?
So recently i ordered a set of fender flats for my 5 string and when they showed up the b string looked improperly wound so i told just strings the set was defective and they sent a new set. But today my new set arrived and it had the exact same problem. Below i will post a pick of both b strings the coiled one bein the new and the unwound the old. So does this look normal for a fender flatwound b string? None of the other strings were tapered or anything but im begining to wonder. |
03-30-2013, 09:39 PM
|  | Fretless Player | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Champaign, IL | | | Looks like a standard taper to me. Looking at the website, it even says ".125tw" for the b string, which means it is a tapered string.
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03-30-2013, 09:43 PM
| | Fretless Player | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Champaign, IL | | | Hopefully you pay JustStrings for the free set of strings they sent you too.
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03-30-2013, 09:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Caldwell, NJ, USA | | | I thought tapers were only supposed to be like and inch though? I just measured the length on it and it was 2.5 inches. |
03-30-2013, 09:46 PM
| | Fretless Player | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Champaign, IL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by danielfnj96  I thought tapers were only supposed to be like and inch though? I just measured the length on it and it was 2.5 inches. | Circle K uses "shorter" tapers than everyone else and theirs are 1.625"
Most others I've seen are around 2-2.25" and sometimes even 2.5" depending on the manufacturer.
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03-30-2013, 09:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Caldwell, NJ, USA | | | Ok well i guess that exsplains it then... |
03-30-2013, 10:31 PM
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Standard taper |
03-31-2013, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by tylerwylie Hopefully you pay JustStrings for the free set of strings they sent you too. | +1
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03-31-2013, 08:55 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Hudson Valley, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tylerwylie Hopefully you pay JustStrings for the free set of strings they sent you too. | Oh please. Why don't you let the OP have a chance at letting JustStrings know about it before you get all high and mighty. I'm a big supporter of honesty on both ends of the counter when it comes to retail but if JustStrings were that worried about it, they would have asked him to send the old ones back.
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03-31-2013, 09:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Mount Airy, North Carolina | | | Some strings have a longer taper to make it easier to make the sharp bends when using string through body bridge.
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