Silk colors

Great idea for a thread. I've got a bunch of strings at home I can photo and add when I have more time. I suspect some strings do have different colors for different gauges or perhaps scale lengths. You describe your D'A Chromes as having light blue silks; mine (the ECB81 set) have royal blue silks (sort of the color of the Indianapolis Colts).

 

i wish all my strings had dark purple silks. i've only ever had two sets of strings with silk, the strings that came on my cort p bass ten years ago had red silk, and my blue steels for my five string 9 years ago had white silk

 

i support this idea!

dean markley sr2000 have gold silk.
blue steels have gray silk.

 

TI Jazz strings (rounds and flats) have red silk.

Sadowsky strings have grey silk (at least the flats do)

La Bella Tape flats have purple silk

 

there have been several threads like this over the years...i just did a search and came up with a pretty good bit of information...there were maybe two or three in the past that had a LOT of string types and the associated silk colors...my faves were slowounds for a long time, and i really liked how all of the silks were all different colors

 

Ken Smith (Tapercores, at least) use Purple silk, at the balls and the tuners.

GHS Chromes are Blue silk.

 

here's one:

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f16/string-silk-colors-116149/

 

I just picked up several sets of Rotosound Swing Bass nickel roundwounds. The silk color is powder blue.

MM

 

LaBella Flats have different color silks...

760FX (Extra Light .039 .056 .077 .096) = Almost Red Orange Silk
760FL (Light .043 .060 .082 .104) = Red Silk
760FS (Standard .045 .065 .085 .105) = Black Silk
760FM (Medium .049 .069 .089 .109) = Blue Silk

0760M (Jamersons) = Blue Silk


All Ken Smith Stainless Steel strings - Purple Silk at Tuners & Ball End
All Ken Smith Compressors - Purple Silk at Tuners & Ball End
Ken Smith Burners (NPS) - Red silk at Tuners, Purple at Ball End

 

The real question is what silk color is best for metal?

 

BLACK!

or all black strings

 

ah, cool. i believe the current "search" algorithm lists most recent threads first.

 

The Steve Harris Signature Rotosound Flats have light blue silk at the headstock end and red silk at the ball end. Or maybe it's the other way around...

And who is it that does the four different ball end metal colors? Is it D'Addario?

 

it is...they used to have strings called slowounds that had a black ball end and blue silks at the ball end with different color silks on the peg end for different guages...they pulled the slowound strings when they started using the same winding process for all of their strings and shifted to multi-color ball ends

 

I'd love to see a comprehensive list, with pictures! Just a listing is not that useful since there are, for example, many shades of purple.

 

Might be worth noting in a database like this what the ball ends look like (Brass, silver, cyliders, rounded edges, colors, etc...)

-JV

 

This thread will be useful as long as we get actual photos and not descriptions. The pictures will make this thread a huge asset.

 

(coming soon to a certain website I know )

Been in the works...

 

cool stuff.