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12-16-2008, 09:24 AM
| | Notes we play > Gear we play them on | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wisconsin | | | How long have you had your flats on?
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My TI's have been on for two years now.  Still doing exactly what I want them to! |
12-16-2008, 09:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia | | | Only a few months, but I expect them to stay there for a long time, or until I get bored of them. |
12-16-2008, 09:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Wilmington, NC | | | Since the summer but they are kinda like marriage. Till death do us part.
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12-16-2008, 09:31 AM
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Originally Posted by SuperDuck My TI's have been on for two years now. Still doing exactly what I want them to! | Ah cool, I was actually about to post a thread asking whether TI's age as well as other flats. |
12-16-2008, 09:32 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Studio City, CA | | | Coming up on six months. Have lost all of the 'new string' twang, but remain solid thud'ers.
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Clubs: Fretless #219, Atheist #55
Basses: MM Sterling 4, 87 Fender Jazz Special Fretless, Dean Pace EUB, Kay DB
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12-16-2008, 09:32 AM
| | | | 12 years on one bass, 4 on another. Still sounding fantastic.
(The 12-year-old ones are GHS Precision Flats, the 4-year-old ones are D'Addario Chromes.) |
12-16-2008, 09:34 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | I don't know. Years. So many I don't recall when I put them on the last time (I went back and forth between one set of GHS Joe Osborns and some DR Hi-Beams on the P bass before I settled on the flats for that bass). But it's been at least 4 years. The Sting's had a set of GHS Precision Flats (totally indistinquishable from the Laklands BTW) for about two years.
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12-16-2008, 09:57 AM
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Brownchicken Browncow | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Phoenix, AZ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperDuck My TI's have been on for two years now. Still doing exactly what I want them to! |
about the same here.
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12-16-2008, 10:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Pacific Northwet, USA | | | TI's going about 5 years now
still sound great and they still stay in tune |
12-16-2008, 10:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N / East Texas | | | Fender 9050's, about a year now. |
12-16-2008, 10:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Boston | | | LaBellas for 9 |
12-16-2008, 10:59 AM
| | ------- | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Swiss Alps | | | My oldest are a set of LaBellas going on 5 years, and Sadowskys about 3. Both sound like the voice of God, just a little angrier when speaking through the Sads. |
12-16-2008, 11:55 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | Hmmmm...
I have some Rotos and GHS strings on a couple of basses that are probably 4 years old.
My 2000 MIM Jazz has the original rounds on it....so 8 years in that case.
And my '63 P has flats that were installed no later than 1972...could be older. But they're at least 36 years old. They don't have much high end, but I don't want them to.
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12-17-2008, 04:35 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Northeastern PA | | | Well this is embarassing, but the Fender flats on my current '74 P have been on it for 3 years, but they came off the '75 I had previous, and were the original factory issued ones. So, they've been in constant service for 33 years. Yikes...... |
12-17-2008, 05:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | Quote:
Originally Posted by FranF Well this is embarassing, but the Fender flats on my current '74 P have been on it for 3 years, but they came off the '75 I had previous, and were the original factory issued ones. So, they've been in constant service for 33 years. Yikes...... | YOU have found wisdom! 33 years is a good start - keep up the good work. 
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12-17-2008, 08:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Northeastern PA | | Yep, I'm beginning to think I like these flatwounds....  |
12-18-2008, 08:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Boise, ID USA | | | 2 years on Fender 9050s now. They sound great.
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12-18-2008, 10:22 PM
|  | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | | Just over four years.
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12-18-2008, 11:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Olney, Maryland | | | GHS precision Flats on my '51 reissue 3 or 4 years at least.
Just put TI flats on my J last May I think.
MM |
12-19-2008, 05:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Berkshire, UK | | | Coming up to 6 months with the roto flat's on my P-J, still not hearing the greatness I always hear about!
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