fused
Improvisationalist
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Well I decided to check out some small ma/pa (so to speak) string manufacturers and ordered two custom sets of bronze for my Martin from these guys. They came last night and are already on the axe (of course).
First glance, nicely wound and quality sure seems to ooz from these metal strands of wire.
Put them on, did the manual string pull/stretch thing as I always do. Tuned them up twice....and beat the fk out of them.
Heavy handed rhythms and chord prog hell to some acoustic shred... Yes shred.....as much as could be done on this axe.
About an hour of sheer string hell for these things..and they stayed IN TUNE! BRAND NEW AND didn't need to retune, it stuck!
Now these aren't a very loud string but the tone and balance (some maybe due to my custom selection, some to string quality) and playability is extremely good.
They don't bend easily but enough to make them acceptable on the acoustic. Wouldn't cut it for my fusion lead axes...
So not sure about the extreme high tensil wire stuff that they talk about on thier factory tour...might not work for some applications. But for this acoustic, just seems to click nicely.
Of course, we're only an hour into them. About a week of beating (um testing) and I'll hit them with a little Dr. Ducks and see how they like that.