2mm or 3mm? Help!

[Turtle01]

Hi guys. I'm not an expert in guitars or basses. So basically I ordered some new strings for my bass. And I was asked if I want 2mm or 3mm strings. What does it mean? I will leave my bass specs down below. I chose 3mm. Is it good?
Fender Squier Affinity PJ series
Body: Alder
Neck: Maple
Neck profile: "C" profile
Scale: Long Scale
Fretboard: Rosewood
20 Medium jumbo frets
Synthetic bone saddle
Nut width: 41.3 mm
1 Jazz pickup and 1 standard split precision pickup
2 Volume controls
1 Tone control
Standard 4-saddle bridge
Standard open-gear machine heads
Hardware: Chrome
3-Ply black pickguard
Colour: Black

 

[mmbongo]

Never heard of such a thing, but that doesn't mean anything! Is someone installing the strings for you?

 

[lz4005]

Hi guys. I'm not an expert in guitars or basses. So basically I ordered some new strings for my bass. And I was asked if I want 2mm or 3mm strings. What does it mean?

In the US string gauge is measured in 1000ths of an inch. If it was in metric it would be in a smaller unit than whole mm.

Why didn't you ask for more information when they asked you that question?

 

[ZenG]

Hi guys. I'm not an expert in guitars or basses. So basically I ordered some new strings for my bass. And I was asked if I want 2mm or 3mm strings. What does it mean? I will leave my bass specs down below. I chose 3mm. Is it good?
Fender Squier Affinity PJ series
Body: Alder
Neck: Maple
Neck profile: "C" profile
Scale: Long Scale
Fretboard: Rosewood
20 Medium jumbo frets
Synthetic bone saddle
Nut width: 41.3 mm
1 Jazz pickup and 1 standard split precision pickup
2 Volume controls
1 Tone control
Standard 4-saddle bridge
Standard open-gear machine heads
Hardware: Chrome
3-Ply black pickguard
Colour: Black

I'm curious as to where you ordered those from that they would ask that question..

Personally I never heard of this being a factor when buying strings ever..

String gauges are usually in thousandths of an inch (In North America) and each string in a set is different anyway..

 

[shoulderpet]

Hi guys. I'm not an expert in guitars or basses. So basically I ordered some new strings for my bass. And I was asked if I want 2mm or 3mm strings. What does it mean? I will leave my bass specs down below. I chose 3mm. Is it good?
Fender Squier Affinity PJ series
Body: Alder
Neck: Maple
Neck profile: "C" profile
Scale: Long Scale
Fretboard: Rosewood
20 Medium jumbo frets
Synthetic bone saddle
Nut width: 41.3 mm
1 Jazz pickup and 1 standard split precision pickup
2 Volume controls
1 Tone control
Standard 4-saddle bridge
Standard open-gear machine heads
Hardware: Chrome
3-Ply black pickguard
Colour: Black

Not sure what they were asking but you only need to know 3 things
Scale length (longscale in your case)
Gauge (100-40,105-45 etc,the higher the numbers the thicker the strings)
Flatwound or Roundwound (Roundwound is modern trebly, flatwound is old school bassy and thumpy not much treble)

 

[FunkHead]

Maybe they mean the Ball end size??

 

[micguy]

A G string is about 1 mm in diameter. An A string, about 2 mm. A low B, about 3 mm.

You don't want all the strings to be the same size! OK, this is probably not what was going on.....

 

[Jim C]

Was it the guy who sold you the strings or the guy that is setting up your bass who asked the question?

 

[ixlramp]

I hope this doesn't become one of those times a mysterious question is asked and then the asker, who has only 1 post in the forum, disappears and doesn't respond to requests for clarification, that's so annoying.
But yes '2mm or 3mm strings' is meaningless, either they're talking nonsense or you misremember, maybe someone was setting up a bass for you and was asking about 'string height above the fretboard at the 24th fret'?

 

[Skybone]

The space between the strings & the fretboard?