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08-14-2011, 11:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Windsor, Ontario | | | Need some good nickels with silk ends...
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Thats basically it. I am a nickel string lover, but its getting hard to find nickels with silk ends still. IMO it just looks classier to have that nicely coloured silk on the headstock, and fender no longer makes em so i need to find another company.
Anyone have good suggestions for pure nickel strings, with silk end wraps?
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08-14-2011, 11:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado | | | You can't find good nickels with silk? I can't find good nickels without silk!
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Originally Posted by WilliamSandoval You can't find good nickels with silk? I can't find good nickels without silk!
Back on topic... | Hmmm. An answer without any actual information. Let's see . . . in your day job you are a government employee, right? 
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08-15-2011, 12:07 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Dayton, OH | | | I believe Fender 7150 are pure nickel and have silk.
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08-15-2011, 12:37 AM
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Originally Posted by boynamedsuse Hmmm. An answer without any actual information. Let's see . . . in your day job you are a government employee, right? | 
To be honest, I'm in the same boat as the OP, I just need them without silk. I've had the same flatwounds for years. 
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08-15-2011, 12:44 AM
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Ken Smith Burners - Red Silk on Tuners / Purple at Ball
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Rotosound Swing Bass 66 Nickels - Light Blue - I forgot about those thanks LowBrow
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08-15-2011, 01:13 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Oregon, USA | | Roto RS66LN Swing Bass Nickels. I swear by them - nice light blue silk. 
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08-15-2011, 01:36 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | I just got the rotos recently and I wouldn't call it light blue. Its way more bold than that. I'd call it like beer can blue or something. Maybe its just because of the contrast from the hot red Jaguar.
If you need them without silk, rotos' other nickel strings are the same exact strings, just without the silk. they usually run a little cheaper too.
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08-15-2011, 03:54 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Down in the middle somewhere. | | | Rotosound swing 66 nickel!
Great sound, long life (longer than the SS ones) and lovely blue silks! |
08-15-2011, 08:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Windsor, Ontario | | | Thanks guys!
Also the fender strings no longer have silk ends, which caused my problems when I bought a new set of pure nickels and it didn't have any silk! Lol
It's to know what to buy now without being able to see the string ends and play the strings.
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08-15-2011, 09:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Nashville | | | I vastly prefer strings without silk ends.
However, I tend to change strings frequently for different uses, and HATE fraying string ends that result from swapping silked strings through non-slotted bridges. |
08-15-2011, 04:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Windsor, Ontario | | | Well if you ever want to send me your silk end strings i'll take'm! Nickels and flats prefered :P
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08-16-2011, 12:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Saint Petersbourg, Russia | | | TI Superalloys probably aren't pure nickel, but do have silk ends and sound good.
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08-16-2011, 10:12 PM
| | | | Another vote for rotosound swing 66 nickel. I do agree silk gives a little richer, classier look to strings. Unless its dr neons. Wouldnt want silk on them cause theyre allready rich color. Lol.
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08-17-2011, 07:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Cape Cod, MA | | | Ken Smith Bass Burners. The silk up top is actually Orange, but they sure do sound good!
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08-18-2011, 03:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Ohio, USA | | | Ken Smith Compressors - Purple Silks
Sadowsky Blue Label NPS - Deep Blue Silks
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