Recent content by n00bass

You know what is unfortunate, that I for some reason, that I cannot understand, I am unable to find the winding lengths of strings unless I track them down and measure them. You're telling me it's plenty of information to get the length of one string. Well then please explain this, this is how...

Yes it's not perfect, and if it's not perfect then it's perfectly useless to me because if I make an error it's too expensive to then pay return postage from Australia. Jason was very helpful and told me the medium GHS flats are 35.5" which is what I want so I purchased a couple of set. But I...

@Jaco who? @JKos I have already bought strings from Fretnation, thanks to earlier advice and yes I have already determined that whenever I need new strings I will not be purchasing from anyone else other than fret nation in future. So perhaps instead of a sticky that has string winding length...

Exactly. I currently have nearly $300 dollars worth of Strings I have to send back. And it's why we need a sticky thread where we post the exact length of the strings from ball to silk, as measured when the new packet arrives. Then it's up to the mods of Talkbass to organise this data. I do not...

I wrote to Fender.com last week to ask them the winding length of the 9050L. Fender, the same Fender who write 'Fender' on their Fender strings. This is what I just received back... Hi Andrew, Thanks for your e-mail. I don’t have the exact length of the Fender® USA 9050L Stainless Steel...

OK thanks all, it's looking good now I polished it up did some tweaking, and intonation around the fretboard is nice, heaps better than it's been for quite a few years. Not perfect but within acceptable tolerances for me, plus I feel like when I put some new strings on it that are on their way...

Look I don't care whether it matters or not, I just want to know the winding length of the strings I'm buying. Is that unreasonable?

Well my recent decent into the madness that is string winding lengths began when I ordered some new 760FGS gold flats for my Cort A4, which was bequeathed to me by the gf after she got a Fender, I'd only ever put daddario on it and I just buy the strings and string it up, I never even thought...

I'm just a beginner bass player and I'm new to the forum too, but that doesn't stop me from seeing what is now plainly obvious to me no where in the world is there a resource with accurate unequivocal information on the string winding lengths. But wait you say there are two stickies in this very...

@S.F.Sorrow I think I'll pull the trigger, on the Thoms, it's going to take a few weeks with Easter and Covid-19 for the GHS's to arrive, and I'm only going to get a maybe half a turn of wrap on the E, the G will be all wrapped on the peg, but I guess it's not so big a deal on the G, the other...

FFS get this, I write to a seller about the Thomastiks before buying and I get this back... I have checked with a tape measure and the LONG scale are 35.5" from ball end to silk wrap. The short scale you are looking at are 31.5" Then I ask them to check all the strings and I get this...

You know that click you hear when you turn them on (vxt6), it also sounds when the auto shut off mechanism kicks in. Well I don't use that feature because it doesn't work very well for soft sounds so it's always off. Nevertheless a few days ago I could hear some intermittent clicking...

OK done. I used the witnesses helped in locating the saddles and the G and D are still good. The E is looking better but there was some creaking so I'll let it all settle over night and get back to it in the morning. It feels good to have done this.

Well if I want that saddle to go more than half way up it's allowed travel, I'm just going to have to do it. I'm going to do it right now and get this over with...

@S.F.Sorrow I really do not like round wounds remember I'm just learning, so playability it more important for me, I have tried half rounds once and preferred that but I am set on flats for the time being if anything I'd try nylon wrapped, but I'm just not a round wound type of guy. You've...