Stainless Steel Guitar Strings Review

Made from stainless steel wire wrapped around tin plated hex shaped steel core wire.

Stainless steel guitar strings review. If you are using stainless steel strings you are wearing those two critical guitar components down and they will eventually have to be replaced. They are commonly referred to as a hybrid between traditional metal strings and the nylon strings of a classical guitar. These strings provide brighter tone and longer string life. Plain strings are tin plated high carbon steel.

The sound that stainless steel guitar strings produce is bright and crisp. These strings are nickel which greatly reduces fret and saddle wear and they sound good. With classical strings the most common materials used are. Stainless is much more resistant to the sweat but will still tarnish.

Silk and steel aka compound strings which have greater flexibility and lower string tension resulting in gentler mellower sound. Stainless steel tonally speaking the opposite of nickel strings stainless steel is clear and bright with clarity throughout the frequency range great for modern sounds. Nickel plated steel no surprises nickel plated steel offers a compromise between pure nickel or stainless steel. My hands ooze salty corrosive sweat.

Ernie ball slinky stainless steel wound electric guitar strings are made from stainless steel wire wrapped around tin plated hex shaped steel core wire. Pure nickel the solid nickel core that these strings have is wrapped with solid nickel windings. These strings provide brighter tone and longer string life due to stainless steels inherent anti corrosive properties gauges 010 013 017 026 036 046. All have their uses and there s no reason to feel you must play pure nickel just because that s the way they did it in the good old days unless that s exactly the tone you seek.

I always wipe the strings down after playing either with a clean cloth or preferably a blitz cloth. If i do a stainless set can last a month of 2 3 gigs wk. Then i installed the stainless steel strings adjusted the tremolo springs stainless has a little less tension even when using the exact same gauge stretched and tuned to pitch. They will have to be replaced more often due to the fact that they lose their brightness much faster than nickel plated strings do.