Recent content by Blutack

Heretic! :-P

LOL, thank you both for a direct answer to a direct question! I'm now wondering what else I remember from my early years which is blatantly untrue! :-D

Thanks for the info, Michael. The strings I recall were not so much wound with an oval section wire, but more like what you'd get if you wound a flat ribbon around a core which is itself an oval, so if you cut the string in half with scissors and then looked down the length, you'd see an oval...

Hi folks, New member here, looking for advice. When I was a teenager, I owned a cheap fretless jazz-bass copy. It was pretty crap TBH, and in the end I lent it to a friend and never saw it again. There's something bugging me though. IIRC, it had smooth strings which were not only flat wound...