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05-28-2006, 09:51 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Seattle, Washington | | | Why aren't there any other Nylon core strings???
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Does anyone know why there aren't any nylon core flatwound, or tapewound strings? It seems to me that if nylon core strings are for helping to get that double bass tone, then making a tapewound or flatwound nylon core would be best, rather than the roundwounds that TI and anyone else makes (which are great themselves).
Is there some kind of reason that there aren't any? Is it structurally impossible to make or something? Or is there just not enough demand for them maybe? 
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05-28-2006, 09:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Urbana, IL | | | Nylon core wouldn't work very well with magnetic pickups. If you mean nylon wound flats, RotoSound makes them. Nice strings, but not my cup of tea. I like the growl of nickel rounds.
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05-28-2006, 10:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Seattle, Washington | | No, I mean nylon core strings. For acoustic and piezo equipped basses. Like TI's Acousticore strings.
I know all about nylon wrapped strings, I've got a set of Status-Graphite tapewound strings on my Ken Lawrence 
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12-10-2006, 02:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Bay Area | | | Fender Nylon Filament Tapewound.Thought I would respond to this even though it is old. |
12-10-2006, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by SUNNyday r.  Fender Nylon Filament Tapewound.Thought I would respond to this even though it is old. | Those do not have a nylon core, last time I checked 
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12-10-2006, 07:52 PM
|  | Sam was a basket case!!!! | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Corrupticut | | | You might want to ask about this on the URB forum, and look around for classical guitar/guitarron sets that you might be able to adapt for bass.
The TI AB34x sets were designed in cooperation with Rick Turner for his Renaissance piezo-only basses. IMO, It is pretty amazing that they make them at all, being that the demand is fairly miniscule. Fantastic strings though.
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12-11-2006, 02:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Bay Area | | I thought the nylon filament referred to the core. Sorry 'bout that. Whatever is in the core of those strings it makes them feel like rubber bands.  |
12-11-2006, 06:19 PM
| | Sam was a basket case!!!! | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Corrupticut | | Along the original intent of this thread, I have a serious jones for a 34"/35" scale, ball end version of the Eurosonic URB strings. They have a filament core, and a polymide wrap, and feel fantastic. They are the closest thing to a flatwound non-metallic string I have ever played.
They would be amazing on a ABG or a piezo thinline. 
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12-11-2006, 06:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Seattle, Washington | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fretlessrock Along the original intent of this thread, I have a serious jones for a 34"/35" scale, ball end version of the Eurosonic URB strings. They have a filament core, and a polymide wrap, and feel fantastic. They are the closest thing to a flatwound non-metallic string I have ever played.
They would be amazing on a ABG or a piezo thinline. | I had another thread around here somewhere about using URB strings on an acoustic (or electric w/piezos) bass. With nylon/gut strings, it might be possible to just tie a big knot in one end so it would stay in the bridge. Haven't tried it yet though. URB strings = $
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12-12-2006, 04:46 AM
| | Sam was a basket case!!!! | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Corrupticut | | WEED WACKER here we come. That has been the low budget choice for URB players looking for something different. Swage/superglue your own ball end on there and have at it. 
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01-28-2007, 11:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: schenectady, ny | | La Bella makes a set, nylon core with brass winding, much less $$$ than TI's. I haven't tried them. http://store.juststrings.net/lab-abn30.html |
01-28-2007, 12:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Seattle, Washington | | | Yeah, I know. LaBella makes a standard set (only 4-strings) and a piccolo set (which I have) of brass wound nylon cores. And TI makes 4, 5, and 6-string sets (which I also have).
But I want nylon core strings that have other windings...
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01-29-2007, 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Lokire But I want nylon core strings that have other windings... | The only reasonable answer is to start your own string manufacturing company.
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01-29-2007, 07:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Seattle, Washington | | Yeah....I'll get right on that...
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01-29-2007, 09:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: SoCo Rhode Island USA | | | Years ago I used "Cat Gut - catgut" LaBellas. Thought they were the cat's meow at the time (pun intended).
Don't know if they're still made though.
Maybe Google "Catgut guitar strings?"
No balls on the ends, had to knot them.
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01-29-2007, 09:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Seattle, Washington | | | Hmm. Were they made for bass guitar specifically though?
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01-29-2007, 09:43 PM
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02-15-2007, 12:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Bellingham Wa | | | My 2 Cents
I have for the first time in 30 years of playing Used the Acouticore Thomastik-Infeld Nylon Core Strings on my 5 string ABG with Piezo PU and I have never ever played or heard a better set of strings. I highly recomend these strings. |
02-15-2007, 12:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Donald I have for the first time in 30 years of playing Used the Acouticore Thomastik-Infeld Nylon Core Strings on my 5 string ABG with Piezo PU and I have never ever played or heard a better set of strings. I highly recomend these strings. | Already have two sets
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