fryovanni Posted October 6, 2006 Report Share Posted October 6, 2006 I sure hope this page is new to some of you. I don't surf much so it may be a page many of you already have seen. Lots of eclectic instruments.-Click I actually ran across it through this page-Acoustic Bass. Peace,Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spazzyone Posted October 6, 2006 Report Share Posted October 6, 2006 i looked at two pages before i seen this laughed and closed the window K-Mart/Wal-Mart sells 400' of e-string for $2.99. K-Mart and Wal-Mart both sell 5/32 inch vinyl coated clothesline which has eight .012" very hard steel wires running through a sheath of smooth green, see-through vinyl. This stuff is made by the "Lehigh Group" (http://www.lehighgroup.com). The individual strands of this clothesline makes excellent music wire. 90% of the strings I break are the thinnest one & this wire works wonderfully on guitars, banjos, octave mandolin etc etc. It's sound and playability is not a bit different from that of commercially made strings of the same gauge. It's slightly inconvenient to have to peel off the vinyl coating and extract the wire, but well worth the effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fryovanni Posted October 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2006 (edited) i looked at two pages before i seen this laughed and closed the window K-Mart/Wal-Mart sells 400' of e-string for $2.99. K-Mart and Wal-Mart both sell 5/32 inch vinyl coated clothesline which has eight .012" very hard steel wires running through a sheath of smooth green, see-through vinyl. This stuff is made by the "Lehigh Group" (http://www.lehighgroup.com). The individual strands of this clothesline makes excellent music wire. 90% of the strings I break are the thinnest one & this wire works wonderfully on guitars, banjos, octave mandolin etc etc. It's sound and playability is not a bit different from that of commercially made strings of the same gauge. It's slightly inconvenient to have to peel off the vinyl coating and extract the wire, but well worth the effort. Actually the use of Rocks on the acoustic bass project grabbed my attension Isure wouldn't want one of those to drop on my big toe. Edited October 6, 2006 by fryovanni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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