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12-10-2012, 08:12 AM
|  | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | |  Fender flats with green silk
Top of the Morning TBers,
Does anyone recall around which years Fender was using green silks on their flat wound strings? I recall the strings had a packaging with a rainbow like color scheme. Many thanks 
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12-10-2012, 08:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Grand Rapids MI | | | I just put a new set on a month ago. Have green silks. |
12-10-2012, 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Morning Beer  I just put a new set on a month ago. Have green silks. | yes i put on new fender flats yesterday they have green silk
green packaging as welll |
12-10-2012, 11:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: E.Sussex UK | | | Still got some fender flats on from about a year ago, still green silks now as well.
Great strings btw |
12-10-2012, 07:41 PM
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12-10-2012, 07:57 PM
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12-10-2012, 10:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Minnesota | | ... kind of hard to tell in the pic, but these seem the color that I remember from the late 60's, and what Jason is referring to ... http://www.bass-guitar-museum.com/up...44763930-2.jpg
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12-11-2012, 02:04 PM
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I have a set of them, yes green silks, and yes to the rainbow colored ball-ends along with the color coding on the package. |
12-15-2012, 11:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: South Calif. | | | The old Fender flats were more of a teal green....the new ones are a bright green....I like the new ones but I think I like the old ones better. |
12-15-2012, 12:56 PM
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Originally Posted by shrimpflea The old Fender flats were more of a teal green....the new ones are a bright green....I like the new ones but I think I like the old ones better. | The switch to the bright green and the colored ball ends happened when Fender started having their strings made by D'Addario. |
12-15-2012, 12:59 PM
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See profile for affiliations | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: California Coast | | | I have a couple sets of old Fender 9050SLs and they have green silk on the ball end, and no silk on the tuner end.
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12-15-2012, 01:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Germany | | Just put a set on my American deluxe Jazz. 1st time i've used Fender flats, and so far I like 'em  Oh, and they do have the green silk.
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12-17-2012, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by MarkusBass I have a couple sets of old Fender 9050SLs and they have green silk on the ball end, and no silk on the tuner end. | You are correct the older ones had no silk on the tuner end....however the really old Fender flats (950's) had them on both ends and had teal colored silk....I've played those and really like their tone....hard to find now....I think they stopped making them in the 1980's. |
12-17-2012, 02:58 PM
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See profile for affiliations | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: California Coast | | | Ah...gotcha! Yeah...like the newer old ones too! |
12-17-2012, 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by bertbassplayer The switch to the bright green and the colored ball ends happened when Fender started having their strings made by D'Addario. | Both Fender and D'addario deny that D'addario makes Fender strings. Of course, that means they do 
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12-18-2012, 07:35 AM
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12-18-2012, 07:40 AM
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