Foderas? Pressure wound?

[Dreamsinger]

I think not, at least not anymore. Their website and labeling are a bit ambiguous, saying that *all* their strings are pressure wound. That may have been true a few years ago but the last set I bought was as round wound as it could be. I expected more from Fodera.

 

[michael_t]

The term "pressurewound", or "compression wound", can mean different things depending on which manufacturer you're referring to. It's one of those ambiguous terms that are defined differently by different companies. It could simply mean the outer cover wire being wound extra tight, or it could mean "rollerwound" like the Pressurewound by GHS, which actually goes through a precision roller for the outer round wire to be flattened into an oval shape before it's wound.

 

[Dreamsinger]

FWIW, an old set of Foderas I found recently were were oval shaped. If you're right then Fodera changed.