Anyone have an idea about a round wound with teal silks on both ends, brass ball ends? These are incredibly smooth feeling and low tension, although a lot of that might be that I suspect it’s a regular scale string string strung this short scale Aria EB-0 copy. 36” to silk on all strings. The one string I was able to string to another 34” bass maintained both the relatively low tension and and smooth feel. (And absolutely smoked the remaining pure blues on there in terms of output, tone, feel, and punch which is why I’m hoping to figure what these things are!)
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Teal silks string ID help?
- Thread starter Medman
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None of the rounds by Fender come with silk. Besides, Fender-branded strings come with color-coded ball ends.
Gotcha...thanks. I think I was thinking of my Fender flats. Sorry, and they are more light green.
I have Dogal Jaco Flats on my P-bass which have the same color. Could it be one of their round wound offerings?
Would you be able to do something for me? Measure the length on those flats you have from the ball end to the silk to see if it's close to 36", which is shorter than the "long scale" by most manufacturers. According to the OP, that's the winding length on the strings in question.
Thanks for your quick response. I haven't been able to help the OP because I'm stumped about the 36" winding length, which is not very common.
What I find interesting is that the silks are so inconsistent string to string. Maybe the OP just got a unique set. The Dogal CarbonSteel Round Wound are round core, which would account for the low tension. They are also described as soft feeling on Stringsbymail's website. Just speculating.
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Used to run Rotosound Funkmaster gauge strings on my Ric 4001. I believe they had those light blue silks, but can't remember if they were on the ball end. Low tension? You could bend them across the fretboard.
I found a few old pictures of the bass. the silks look to be the same color but I can't tell if they are on the ball end, because of the bridge. Anyways that's what the package looks like today.
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Idk if its the lighting, but zooming on the rick bridge, I think I can spot the teal silk on the G string
If he's measuring 36" with the strings on the bass, at pitch, then they're shorter than that out of the package. Could be a number of ~34" medium scale strings.
Hehehe, those aren't saddleS, that's -A- saddle. Can't intonate that any more without breaking it apart (as you can see happened on the G). This "saddle" functions more like a nut tbh. 60s/70's basses really were the best, eh?
Looking closely at the strings on that Ric, they look like flatwounds. No way they're Funkmasters.
I'm going to guess the strings in the OP are Thomastik Jazz Rounds, medium scale. I know the long scale set has green silks but I don't know if the medium scale has the same color. Funkmasters wouldn't feel smooth at all, as the OP describes.
Hehehe, those aren't saddleS, that's -A- saddle. Can't intonate that any more without breaking it apart (as you can see happened on the G). This "saddle" functions more like a nut tbh. 60s/70's basses really were the best, eh?
Thank you for the clarification, was completely unaware of this and actually makes Leo's brigde an awesome combination of simplicity and function. Note: I have never been too excited about those '51 Precisions bridges because of the lack of individual intonation.
You're not wrong, the intonation is garbage, at the 12th fret it's ALMOST a half step sharp. Hipshot supertone incoming on this ole girl!
