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I bought 2 sets of DR Black Beauties coated acoustic strings for an acoustic archtop. After just a few days the black coating started flaking off the plain high E & B, around the most used frets and the picking area. Interestingly, just the the plain strings. After a few more days it became horrible. Tiny black flakes coming off, leaving a noisy rough raspy feeling on my fingers, and a very harsh brittle tone with lots of buzzing. Unusable. So tried the second set. After a few days, same thing. So I swapped in two regular D'Addario plain strings, problem solved. No more harsh tone, buzzing, etc. I wrote to DR last week from their web site, no reply. See the upper left and bottome right below. You can even see some flakes that have fallen onto the paper.
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03-23-2024 02:16 PM
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Coated DR's have always done that. Black Beauties, Red Devils, Neons. They're sticky too.
I also stick with D'Addario.
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Originally Posted by child as audience
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Originally Posted by SoftwareGuy
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