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Your favorite Nickel Tapered 5 string set?

I use SIT Power wounds on one bass, but custom gauges - 40-55-70-95-130. The challenge with buying full sets is that there are literally none on the market that hit my preferred tension (35 pounds per string) for all the strings - if you like even tension on all strings, the correct B string to match a 95 E (which is light tension wise) is a 130 - nobody offers that in a stock set.

If you go online and order the gauges you want directly from SIT (Curt Mangan will also do this, and they put your name on the package), you get....

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Is the b tapered/exposed core?