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10-14-2007, 09:34 AM
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Maybe this has been covered before, if so I'm sorry, but I couldn't find it by searching.
It seems like there aren't that many string brands today that has their own string manufacturing facility, and make their own strings. It might be similar to drum making, where many so called custom drum makers get shells from Keller, and slap their name on them.
I want to get an overview in this thread, on every string maker out there, who makes their own strings, and who slaps their name on strings that other companies have manufactured. I hope there are many of you who can contribute. |
10-14-2007, 09:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Los Angeles | | DR has their own factory in New Jersey, not sure which exit. 
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10-14-2007, 12:33 PM
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10-14-2007, 12:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: new yawk | | | d'addario and d'aquisto both produce *their own* on Lawn Guyland (long island, new york, that is)
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10-14-2007, 05:11 PM
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10-14-2007, 06:52 PM
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10-15-2007, 08:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Otta, Norway | | | Is it Everly that make Cleartone strings? Lakland strings are made by GHS I think. Dunlop have their own string facility.
What about SIT, Martin, Black Diamond, John Pearse, Ernie Ball, Rotosound, Sadowsky? |
10-15-2007, 10:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: UK, Essex | | | Add Warwick to that list please. I love the black label strings, but I wonder if I can ge exactly the same product elsewhere for less, if indeed they don't make them themselves.
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10-15-2007, 10:59 AM
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Originally Posted by ga_edwards Add Warwick to that list please. I love the black label strings, but I wonder if I can ge exactly the same product elsewhere for less, if indeed they don't make them themselves. | I believe someone else winds Warwick's strings
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10-15-2007, 12:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Blimp City | | | SITs have a factory in Akron Ohio and make strings for other companys as well. |
10-16-2007, 01:16 AM
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Originally Posted by ga_edwards Add Warwick to that list please. I love the black label strings, but I wonder if I can ge exactly the same product elsewhere for less, if indeed they don't make them themselves. | Probably not exactly. Even if a company contracts their strings out to another manufacturer, they use the alloys specified by the customer, which of course changes the strings. However, I do think certain types of strings are identical. Like I can't find any appreciable differences in Fender and LaBella strings. |
10-16-2007, 04:27 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Durham NC | | | Fender and La Bella make their own strings. |
10-16-2007, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by JimmyM Probably not exactly. Even if a company contracts their strings out to another manufacturer, they use the alloys specified by the customer, which of course changes the strings. However, I do think certain types of strings are identical. Like I can't find any appreciable differences in Fender and LaBella strings. | Besides the tone, finish, tension, and in many case gauges they are identical...  |
10-16-2007, 11:11 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | I just changed from LaBella to Fender flats, and other than the gauges, they felt the same to me. Those are the only LaBellas and Fenders I've played, though, so I can't talk about the rounds. |
10-17-2007, 03:31 AM
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Originally Posted by One Drop Besides the tone, finish, tension, and in many case gauges they are identical... | but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us? 
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