Recent content by Gnoom

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    Gold Tone MicroBass Talk

    Follow up to my original post: To be fair, I thought I should give the flatwounds a more extensive tryout so I salvaged the E string and strung up the remaining 3* as well (*no problems with those unraveling like the E string). IMO, while they look and feel great, unfortunately they still...
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    Gold Tone MicroBass Talk

    Re: I had to wear rubber gloves to keep the strings from slipping thru my fingers -- worked like a charm though, made it much easier to maintain a grip on them while stretching and getting that initial wrap around the tuning peg. I just wish there was a way to keep all of the strings from...
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    Gold Tone MicroBass Talk

    I did, on my 23". Worst strings ever...or, I should use the non-plural "string" because I didn't get past the E string. It had a very dull flat sound and would never tune up to the actual note, then eventually started unraveling. Maybe I got a bad set, I dunno. While the GT site indicated...