Question about silk wrappings

[odie]

I was wondering what the purpose of the silk wrappings are on strings.

Any pros or cons??

[ONYX]

They help prevent scraching of the tuner posts. Plus they look real purty......

[Neil Ash]

Good question! I was wondering myself. I recently bought a Warwick Streamer 5 string, which was strung with Warwicks own strings, which are (in my opinion) uneven, coarse, rough and spongey, so I bought a set of my usual elites (40-100s) plus a 125 for bottom B. First thing I had to to was cut off the bindings at the bridge end as the B & E wouldn't fit through the holes.

Is this a conspiracy by Warwick, to make us use their nasty strings?

[Muttluk]

how come all guitar stings dont have silk things, and ernieball strings dont have them eather.

[membranophone]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Muttluk:
how come all guitar stings dont have silk things, and ernieball strings dont have them eather. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

They probably don't put silk on to save money.

[bertbassplayer]

I agree with membranophone, the cheapest strings in the world (Rouge Strings which are made by Gibson... they are like $5 for a set of 4) don't have the silk wrappings either. :O

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[KB]

DR strings (at least the sunbeams) don't have silks, and they are very nice (and expensive) strings. I Do think the silks are mainly for looks with a very small minor side benefit of maybe protecting the posts, but so far I have not seem any post damage on my bass and I have been using DR's for over 6 months.

-KB

[bassdork]

I always thought they were to protect the strings from rough edges on the tuners.


Lord help me I'm just not that bright