I just purchased an SX sjb 62 5 string fretless bass, and I also purchases with it a set of d'addario xl chromes flat wound strings (ecb81-5, .045-.132").
When i got the bass, I was pleasently suprised to see flat wound strings already on it, and was gonna keep them if one of my d'addario strings broke, but I ran into a bit of a problem when I tried to restring the bass.
The strings that are on it are very noticably thinner then the d'addario. I mean really noticable. to the point that I will have to modify the bridge's B string hole in order to make the d'addario .132's cloth bound area's fit throught it. Heres the difference, with the d'addario .132 on the far end with the SX's B string to the right of it, and next to those are he G strings with the d'addario's on the left again... The difference between the B strings is immediately noticable, where as the G strings are less so, but the d'addario's are definitely thicker. The SX's strings also appear to have been sanded on the string with a thinner winding strip, wich is apperent by the almost invisible winding spiral, where as the d'addario's are obviously flat wound by the noticable spirals.
unfortunately I don't have a micrometer to tell the actual thickness of the sx's
I'd guess it's around .105-.110 becuase it's almost the same thickness as the E sting from d'addario wich is .100"
Heres an image showing how the cloth binding at the ends is to thick, this is where it sticks on the bridge. i've desaturated the body reflection to help accentuate the actual string.
To get back on track and away from this being a Strings forum post, Has anyone else Put something similar to .045-.132 thickness strings on their sx sjb 62 4+1?
It's got a 43" vibrating string length, so I'd assume that it would be built to handle the normal gauge bass strings. But I want to make sure that putting such noticably thicker strings on it won't break the neck with tension.
At first I was worried that it was an extended treble scale set up, with a string above G, rather then an extended bass scale with the aditiona low B string. But that wouldn't make sense cause I couldn't find a single set of strings that would match that set up.
For that matter, I couldn't find anything that would seem to match the thickness of what came with this bass....
sorry for the long winded first post... this is my second bass (had to sell the first because I was moving) and I'm fairly excited.
When i got the bass, I was pleasently suprised to see flat wound strings already on it, and was gonna keep them if one of my d'addario strings broke, but I ran into a bit of a problem when I tried to restring the bass.
The strings that are on it are very noticably thinner then the d'addario. I mean really noticable. to the point that I will have to modify the bridge's B string hole in order to make the d'addario .132's cloth bound area's fit throught it. Heres the difference, with the d'addario .132 on the far end with the SX's B string to the right of it, and next to those are he G strings with the d'addario's on the left again... The difference between the B strings is immediately noticable, where as the G strings are less so, but the d'addario's are definitely thicker. The SX's strings also appear to have been sanded on the string with a thinner winding strip, wich is apperent by the almost invisible winding spiral, where as the d'addario's are obviously flat wound by the noticable spirals.
unfortunately I don't have a micrometer to tell the actual thickness of the sx's
I'd guess it's around .105-.110 becuase it's almost the same thickness as the E sting from d'addario wich is .100"Heres an image showing how the cloth binding at the ends is to thick, this is where it sticks on the bridge. i've desaturated the body reflection to help accentuate the actual string.
To get back on track and away from this being a Strings forum post, Has anyone else Put something similar to .045-.132 thickness strings on their sx sjb 62 4+1?
It's got a 43" vibrating string length, so I'd assume that it would be built to handle the normal gauge bass strings. But I want to make sure that putting such noticably thicker strings on it won't break the neck with tension.
At first I was worried that it was an extended treble scale set up, with a string above G, rather then an extended bass scale with the aditiona low B string. But that wouldn't make sense cause I couldn't find a single set of strings that would match that set up.
For that matter, I couldn't find anything that would seem to match the thickness of what came with this bass....
sorry for the long winded first post... this is my second bass (had to sell the first because I was moving) and I'm fairly excited.
