Cheap flatwound fail

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I had a 20 year old set of Thomastik-Infeld JF344s on my fretless ABG, but removing the strings for maintenance, one finally broke at the tuning peg. No matter, I thought, I'll try that cheap set of random brand I got to see if they are any good. Price was about £12. Well, they are the least flat flats I've had, with lumpy and inconsistent windings, although they sound terrible. However, winding them on, the main body of the string needes to go onto the tuning post, much as with the TIs. However, in this case, the string snapped! Poor quality. There was just enough length left to bring the string up to tension.

 

[HaphAsSard]

Olympia?

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Olympia?

There isn't a prize, but yes.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

I had a 20 year old set of Thomastik-Infeld JF344s on my fretless ABG, but removing the strings for maintenance, one finally broke at the tuning peg. No matter, I thought, I'll try that cheap set of random brand I got to see if they are any good. Price was about £12. Well, they are the least flat flats I've had, with lumpy and inconsistent windings, although they sound terrible. However, winding them on, the main body of the string needes to go onto the tuning post, much as with the TIs. However, in this case, the string snapped! Poor quality. There was just enough length left to bring the string up to tension.

I should have said they DON'T sound terrible. Freudian slip.

 

[HaphAsSard]

There isn't a prize, but yes.

Wot no laurel? no Yanni?

 

[Mechayoshi]

Where to find?

 

[HaphAsSard]

Where to find?

Not in North America, from what I could engine-search:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005CD2F62

 

[Yahboy]

Try Alice Flat from Aliexpress.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/328...!sea!MY!1801748259&curPageLogUid=ZgeQGZAHzlrW

Been try once on my previous CIC Squier CV60P, sound like flatwound but a bit dry. String to string tonal balance are fine , just they make your finger get dark on first few week after install.