GHS pressurewound blue silk wrap? (not black)

[michael_t]

Oh dear...read again please...


I could give a **** about websites. Still do not see the silk wrap LENGTH....

I did read your post. You talked about wanting to have all the info on the package. Good luck with that. I was just pointing out you can obtain the info simply by taking the time to check online.

By the way, why would you need to know the "silk wrap length"? The important thing to know is the actual winding length of the strings so you can make sure they're the right length to fit the bass properly.

 

[iiipopes]

Hmmm. Look closely at the picture showing the silks. Only the two strings on the far right look like Pressurewounds. The other strings look like flat wound strings. Something was switched somewhere along the line. Pressurewounds have always had black silk. Never blue.

 

[Deleted member 368008]

I did read your post. You talked about wanting to have all the info on the package. Good luck with that. I was just pointing out you can obtain the info simply by taking the time to check online.

By the way, why would you need to know the "silk wrap length"? The important thing to know is the actual winding length of the strings so you can make sure they're the right length to fit the bass properly.

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Removing silk at ball end

Winding length includes the one that is covered in silk. Speaking length is another thing though.
Body through, top loading bridges. If it disappears further down on body through stringing it will show up at the top, at the headstock going out on over the first fret, way over the nut into the speaking length of the string. The manufacturers don't know and couldn't care less of how you bass and bridge is made, seemingly. I know only that strings without silk fits more basses than strings with. And we should not go into headless, which I've wasted enough money on strings that won't fit. It's like putting short scale strings on a long scale bass. And they don't even list specs on websites, if they have any length specs at all for double bass end strings.

You can not move the silk end back, say with washers at the bridge, or say, if you got really cunning about it , and put on headless tuners at a headstocked bass, so you could use the headless gear to retract the silk far back, then keep the headstock tuners for tuning purposes. Then that end of string silk - at the top - will be too short and protrude out on the strings, especially low e-string.

The incentive from manufacturers that it looks nice and tidy, and doesn't cause marks in the tuner posts is one of the most utter b*ll*cks I've ever heard. No silk will keep marks from any string as the force is too great and it will cut through anyway. Maybe it was of some slight use, back in the day when ROUND CORES was used, to keep the core in line, and not unwrap. But as you bend around the post that silk will still not help for any of that. And if your tuner makes marks (I've yet to see any string "chews" into tuner posts no matter how old the bass) it is of very low quality pot metal that isn't good for anything, it will dent from silk too...

What on earth have they been smoking?

 

[michael_t]

Winding length includes the one that is covered in silk. Speaking length is another thing though.

Winding length = the length of the full winding from ball end to the first taper, where the full winding ends and the string gets thinner.

When the string is silked, the start of the silk at the tuner end typically covers the last 0.25" or so of the full winding, so that's something that needs to be taken into consideration. It's possible the winding length is long enough to go past the nut but some of the silk can still ride in the nut slot.

 

[Deleted member 368008]

I did read your post. You talked about wanting to have all the info on the package. Good luck with that

Well, the the OP wouldn't have the problem of something fishy going on, would he? Then they could have the strings visible in see-through clear plastic so one could at least SEE what they look like and even measure them without having to break the seal of the package.

 

[Deleted member 368008]

The silk on most strings are not beyond the 34" scale.