Do Animas eat your fingerboard?

At first glance, I thought this was asking about whether ANIMALS ate your fingerboard. But that's a very different, much creepier problem.

 

"the monster just ate japan"
(Frank Zappa, Cheepnis, from Roxy & Elswhere)

 

I had animas on my bass and they definitely DID mark up my fingerboard. Don't know what to make of it though.

 

Do you still have tha package of the strings with the serial number on? It would be very interesting to see when they were made, Animas and Garbos used to be way more rougher,lately the windings are much smoother even if not completely flat wound, but i consider them smooth, on the basses that we have here at Velvet that have Animas , theres no marks on the fingerboard, and when im testing the strings, i even slap them very hard.... if you find the serial number, please tell me, thanks in advance.

Nuno

 

I had 'em on my bass for a coupla years; no marks in my case.

 

Had mine on 6 months or so. Marked up the board quite a bit.

 

No marks here as I just cleaned my FB last night (I'm bad at cleaning my strings) and didn't notice anything at all. I had Animas on for about 6 months too. Maybe all the scratches are filled with grime?


Naaaaah.

 

That's kinda weird, eh Phil? Since we both play New Standards... yeah, I know that no two pieces of ebony are the same.
Anyway, I'm really digging being back to Spiros at the moment.

 

Prolly not a wood thing. It's a brutality thing. I killed those wires in 6 months. They were on somebody elses bass for a bit but most of those miles are mine. I'm hard on stuff. No surprise to me that I'm tearing up the board. The Animals were just helping it along.

 

Marcus and Phil - Are you a "put the string through the fingerboard" or a "push it down until it makes contact" kind of player?

 

I'm pretty heavy handed. I try to be light and efficient. Sometimes I start out that way but usually I end up pushing down to China by the time the gigs up.

Most of my gigs find me living in the Money zone too so the wear is concentrated there.

 

Probably the latter. I reserve most of the violence for my right hand.

 

There are marks on my fingerboard from about 9 months of animas, but no apparent wear

I like the animas a lot--currently back to spiros, but thinking about switching back