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12-16-2010, 10:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Port Charlotte, FL | | | Flats for a String-Thru P?
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I have a string-through Sting Precision, and need some flats that are long enough not to have the nylon windings covering the nut. Any suggestions? I think any P-bass with flats would be similar.
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12-16-2010, 10:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lubbock, TX | | | I have a 51p resissue that strings through the bridge. I know DR flats are long enough because that what I have on there right now. I have tried GHS brite flats and D'Addario Chromes: one worked, the other was too short, but I can't remember which was which because it's been a couple years. I think the GHS were longer. I tried Fender flats once and they were too short. |
12-16-2010, 12:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Port Charlotte, FL | | | On your '51, did you string through the body and bridge? I go through the ferrules on my Sting P. I'll give the DRs a try.
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12-16-2010, 12:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Moncton, NB, Canada | | | I just took a set of D'Addario Chromes off my string through body P Bass. I had to trim the silks back a little on them to keep them out of the nut.
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12-16-2010, 01:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Lancaster, KY | | | get extra long chromes
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12-16-2010, 02:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Coeur d'Alene | | | It's a regular 34" scale P right? If that's the case, pretty much any flats should string through the body just fine. I have yet to encounter a brand that doesn't (with the exception of Chromes).
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12-16-2010, 02:33 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | The GHS Precision Flats (45-105) work on Sting, and sound great. I had a set of TI flats on it too- I had to shave a bit of the silk off one string, but it was no problem.
John
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12-16-2010, 02:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr. Love  I have a 51p resissue that strings through the bridge. I know DR flats are long enough because that what I have on there right now. I have tried GHS brite flats and D'Addario Chromes: one worked, the other was too short, but I can't remember which was which because it's been a couple years. I think the GHS were longer. I tried Fender flats once and they were too short. | How'd you like the GHS Brite-Flats? I haven't used those stings in about 22 years, but was wondering how they'd work on the Sting.
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John
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12-31-2010, 05:00 PM
| | | | They say the Fender flats are like the Chromes. But the Fender strings do not allow silk to get over the saddle/nut. |
01-02-2011, 11:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London, England | | | TI Flats should do the trick. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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