Flawed “A” in Fender 4 string sets.

[Matty j]

Hello,
Curious if I’m missing some new technology on the recent Fender 7250s I just got after there being shortage.

There is a 1/4 inch bound winding right at the pick up area? As if the E winding was added?
I opened the other set and I’m 2 for 2. Only on the A.?

Thank you going forward!

 

[mmbongo]

Wow that is crazy. Have to wonder how those got past D'Addario QC before going out to Fender!

 

[TomB]

Been doing this for 55 years and never saw anything like that before!

 

[Yahboy]

Email FMIC.

 

[Matty j]

Thank you guys , and yes I will follow up with them as marking the defect and the easy return may go un noticed.
Time for a change so I put a SIT set on that I’ll try at practice today.

 

[iiipopes]

(Sorry, I can't resist) I thought extra windings were discontinued when Leo finally got a steel string set instead of using modified gut double bass strings?

 

[Bushmaster]

(Sorry, I can't resist) I thought extra windings were discontinued when Leo finally got a steel string set instead of using modified gut double bass strings?

Maybe it's a prototype of a 70th anniversary set then. Of course, these days all those vegan bassists wouldn't only consider buying a gut set. But D'Addario could use their Zyex cores

It's strange given the fact that in a strings special of Bass Player 25 years ago, Jim D'Addario was very adamant about about a string having to be equal in diameter and mass-per-unit-length from one end to the other, in order to divide itself adequately into equal vibrating parts in the overtone series. But then, only a few years late they did optionally offer taperwound strings

 

[iiipopes]

Maybe it's a prototype of a 70th anniversary set then. Of course, these days all those vegan bassists wouldn't only consider buying a gut set. But D'Addario could use their Zyex cores

It's strange given the fact that in a strings special of Bass Player 25 years ago, Jim D'Addario was very adamant about about a string having to be equal in diameter and mass-per-unit-length from one end to the other, in order to divide itself adequately into equal vibrating parts in the overtone series. But then, only a few years late they did optionally offer taperwound strings

And researchers like Dr. Kemp show that inharmonicity is decreased with a little bit more mass is added on the string right at the bridge:
New revolutionary strings?