Tell Flat brands by the silkcolour ??

[Hobby]

Hi

I found tree sets of Flats in my "old strings bag" but no set was in their package so..

I'm pretty sure one set is Daddario Cromes and another is LaBella (but I.m not sure about that) but I havent a clue about the third set

Can you help me to identify the sets, please?


-One set has green silk at the endball side and no silk at all at the tuner side.
(this is the stiffest/less flexible set)

-One set has no silk at the endball side and black silk at the tuner side

-One set has darkblue silk in both endball and tuner sides.

[giacomini]

Originally Posted by Hobby

-One set has darkblue silk in both endball and tuner sides.

Can help with this one, as those are on my bass right now! Darkblue silk on both ends are definitely the Chromes!

[braydensharrar]

Second set sounds like LaBella 760FS flats. I love them, they are my default strings.

I too am curious about the first set, I have encountered various basses that have had those same strings and I really liked them.

Good luck!

~B

[Jaco who?]

Originally Posted by Hobby

-One set has green silk at the endball side and no silk at all at the tuner side.
(this is the stiffest/less flexible set)

Fender 9050.

[bertbassplayer]

Originally Posted by giacomini

Can help with this one, as those are on my bass right now! Darkblue silk on both ends are definitely the Chromes!

Could be Ernie Ball Flats as well, they have blue silks. It's easy to tell the difference though because D'Addarios will have the multi colored balls.

Green is def Fenders.

Can't say about the black ones though.

[Hobby]

Thanks !

Found the (empty) package for the Cromes and it's a CB82 050-105 set from ca 1992 (so there's no coloured ballends.dont think Daddario had bugun that feature at that time)

so... I'm pretty sure (with YOUR help) its like this:


-One set has green silk at the endball side and no silk at all at the tuner side.
(this is the stiffest/less flexible set) FENDER

-One set has no silk at the endball side and black silk at the tuner side LaBella

-One set has darkblue silk in both endball and tuner sides. Cromes

[mongo2]

Originally Posted by Hobby

so... I'm pretty sure (with YOUR help) its like this:


-One set has green silk at the endball side and no silk at all at the tuner side.
(this is the stiffest/less flexible set) FENDER

-One set has no silk at the endball side and black silk at the tuner side LaBella

-One set has darkblue silk in both endball and tuner sides. Chromes

I concur.

My recent Chromes came with blue silk.

Older Hofner (made by Pyramid) and Pyramid strings had light green silk... Newer batch has dark green...

LaBella made strings for Carvin... The remaining set I have of Carvin/LaBella has violet/light purple, or whatever it's called...

Gibson and GHS had red silk last time I used them...

My new Fender has black silk...

I don't think you can dependably tell a brand by its silk color...

[One Drop]

If the black silk ones are a heavy guage then it is probably the Labella Jamerson set.

[barebones]

I could have sworn the Labellas I've used in the past had blue silk wraps... Am I mistaken?

[mongo2]

Originally Posted by stringbass69

I could have sworn the Labellas I've used in the past had blue silk wraps... Am I mistaken?

I currently have sets of Labella flats wrapped with Blue, Red or Orange silk (tuner side only) depending on the gauging of the set.

[GM60466]

My Fender flats have black silks bottom only.

[One Drop]

Sorry, temporary omission of intelligence. The Jamerson set is blue, I think the FS are black silk. I was thinking of a set I bought a few years ago that came with black silks, when I asked them about it they said they sometimes substitute one colour for another if they are out of stock.

[tom once dead]

D'addarios normally have coloured end balls. Thats an easy way to tell.

[gm2_in_co]

Just put on some TI Jazz Flats... red.