Poll - Do you use Roundwound or Flatwound Strings?

[Rolf Field]

.12 flats on the jp20 and ibanez 2616. .11 rounds on the ibanez as120

[Bob_Ross]

Not sure how to vote in this poll, as I use both flatwound and roundwound strings:

Flats on my archtop, rounds on my solidbodies.

I think if I owned more than one archtop I might eventually get around to trying roundwounds* on one of them...but to me, the entire point of playing an archtop f-hole hollowbody guitar is to achieve the archetypal tone that most of my heroes achieved with flatwound strings. So for now my archtop always gets flats.

fwiw, if I owned several more solidbody guitars I would definitely get around to stringing one of them up with flatwounds, because a while back I discovered the joy of playing rock music on my flatwound-strung archtop through a mint vintage Vox AC30, and the sound was to die for! Except, couldn't get too loud due to feedback. So I think it'd be cool to have a Telecaster or a 335 or even some wacky left field weirdo solidbody permanently strung with flats. But life's too short to mess with a good thing, so I am hesitant to change the few instruments I own from the strings I know work great on them to something else just on a whim.

*or, heaven forefend, halfrounds! [can-of-worms.jpg]

[gvurrdon]

Flats on everything always for me, guitar or bass. I prefer the flatwound tone and hate the squeaking string noise from rounds.

[Django Johnson]

I like the sound and feel of flat wound strings and had a set of D'Addario Chromes on an Epiphone ES-335 I owned briefly 20 years ago but switched back to round wounds and then sold the guitar. I recently purchased a large hollow body guitar with a rosewood bridge/saddle so a wound 3rd is necessary to dial in proper intonation on that string. It is currently strung up with round wound .011's or .012's (w/wound 3rd) which were on the guitar when I bought it. I don't mind them and they sound good. It feels like playing my acoustic guitar. As soon as these strings are dead I will replace them with flat wounds and keep them on. My Epiphone Les Paul Custom is strung with Ernie Ball Super Slinky's. I have used those strings on electric guitars for almost 50 years.

[jumpnblues]

Thomastik Infeld George Benson flat wounds on my Heritage Eagle Classic Standard dedicated jazz archtop. I use Thomastik Infeld Bebop round wounds on my Gibson ES 345 and Fender '64 CS Reliced Tele.