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05-11-2022 03:22 AM
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Originally Posted by jjang1993
However, on the subject of life expectancy, I am hooked on Elixir Nanowebs. They are roundwounds. Not only do they last three times as long, they feel smoother and make less fingernoise, due to the coating.
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Originally Posted by j4zz
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Originally Posted by nevershouldhavesoldit
I think they are pretty much as advertised. Not quite as bright as uncoated, but not too dull either. Compared to some Thomastik flats I tried a while back, I like them much better. The Thomastiks were too "thuddy". This was on my J&D Luthiers archtop
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Originally Posted by nevershouldhavesoldit
Of course I always also get that feeling one might hardly hear him without amplification...
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Originally Posted by jjang1993
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Originally Posted by docsteve
How much do you play yours to go a year without needing a change?
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On average I play for about ten hours a week but I don’t play on stage much, and band rehearsals are only every other week. So no hard playing, I‘m afraid. After a year, there are markings on the strings, that’s true. That’s why I change them eventually.
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Elixir Nanowebs, as they've been mentioned here, are great. The coating does, however, seem to deteriorate whether you play them or not, starting maybe after 3-4 months. Not going to last a year like people say the TIs do.
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Originally Posted by Peter C
It may be heresy, but I think the reason that people think the TIs last so long, is because they start out sounding like a well used set of strings. If you like that sound, then yep, they'll stay consistantly that way for a long time. I admit this is coming from someone who has only tried them once
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I prefer the feel and sound of TI's to all of the other flatwound strings I have tried. And I would bet that they are a bit easier on the frets than any roundwound strings and probably the SS wound flats as well.
I do find that where I live (close to the ocean) that the strings do oxidize after a few months and I can only get about 4 or 5 months out of a set. They are expensive but worth it.
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Originally Posted by Stringswinger
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FWIW, Pyramid offered to polish the Monel silk-and-steels they made for me, presumably because I mentioned playing an archtop and I also ordered tape-wounds. I understand monel alloys are used in marine applications because of their resistance to corrosion.
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Monel is nickel copper alloy, just like pure nickel and stainless steel it is corrosion resistant because the oxidation process forms a coating which prevents further oxidation.
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Aluminium (oxyde) does the same thing, so EB's AlBr strings are probably corrosion-resistant too.
But IIRC stainless steel "works" in a slightly different fashion; if memory serves me well it's the chrome in the alloy that shields the Fe atoms from oxygen. If I'm not mistaken it's a property that gets lost if you overheat it, which is also why you can't make cast stainless steel. I don't think that would be the case if the protection came from a layer of some other metal oxyde. Besides, stainless steel doesn't go dull like aluminium because that protective layer comes back after you've polished it off.
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Originally Posted by RJVB
However, at high temperatures chromium looses it protective ability so stainless steel corrodes then temporarily
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