Custom flats?

[Frumius]

Anyone has ordered custom flats?
I found this company:

Sub Contra Flatwounds

I would appreciate any info about them or some other manufacturers.

What I'm looking for is a short scale custom gauge (.142) B string.

 

[pingvuiini]

Max at Pyramid Strings made me custom 23” scale tapes and round wounds for my uke basses back when nobody else would or could.

 

[thedovewarlord]

I mainly play the 34" scale precision but those basses of yours look amazing, I have no idea what its like to play uke but I hear what I see somehow.

As far as custom flats, I have no experience with this vendor, but I often gas for an 8 string bass (octaves of standard E.. ie E1 E2 A1 A2 D1 D2 G1 G2) and I think these guys might be able to get a complete set.

 

[HaphAsSard]

Anyone has ordered custom flats?
I found this company:

Sub Contra Flatwounds

I would appreciate any info about them or some other manufacturers.

What I'm looking for is a short scale custom gauge (.142) B string.

Garry Goodman's Octave4Plus is indeed your best bet.

On a couple occasions I directed a TBer in search of a custom flatwound to Pyramid, only for the company to politely decline. (One such occasion was precisely about a short-scale large-gauge flat:
https://www.talkbass.com/posts/19422828/ &ff.)
My impression is that, at least regarding flatwounds, they prefer to limit themselves to offering custom-length versions of gauges they already make (their largest being a 126):

https://pyramid-saiten.de/_assets/_pdf/de/bass-guitar.pdf

PYRAMID maximum performance strings - Sonderanfertigungen, Custom Shop, Custom Strings, Instrumentensaiten Bestellservice

pyramid-saiten.de

[email protected]

Finally, I'm aware of an Argentine manufacturer, Lemma Sound,

LemmaSound strings

Cuerdas strings flatwound, planas, roundwound, blacknylon o doble bola para bajo eléctrico, acústico, multiescala, fretless, headless. Calibres y escalas custom

www.lemmasound.com.ar

being available for flatwound custom orders. To what extent, and for what catchment area, I know not.

 

[KohanMike]

Max at Pyramid Strings made me custom 23” scale tapes and round wounds for my uke basses back when nobody else would or could.

I also ordered custom 23" flats from Max.