Stainless Steel Guitar Strings Vs Nickel

I ve been playing electric guitar since 1980.

Stainless steel guitar strings vs nickel. That is a lot of strings i have played on over the years and a lot of changing strings. When paired with nickel strings the stainless steel frets take very little damage and wear from the friction due to the alloy being much stronger than the string alloy. Enter my discovery of stainless steels and ta da. Frenchy sells some nice mellow semi flat wound nickle strings.

Incidently the plain strings are all stainless steel even in nickel sets. This is a quick test that i did to compare nickel plated steel strings and stainless steel strings. Guitar strings nickel vs stainless steel as far as material is concerned we can divide strings into two main categories. I have played for a few years now and i used to have no problems with nickel plated steel strings but over the past year i have really committed myself more and am now playing guitar for many hours a day.

Nickel vs chrome vs stainless steel electric guitar strings. Down 2 steps c f bb eb g c recorder. On the other hand when paired with stainless steel strings the frets will wear just as quickly as nickel frets paired with nickel strings. I use nickel i ve tried ss on my regular guitars and didn t like the way they felt they also left a black mark on my fingers and had a rattle i didn t care for so i just stuck to nickel i use john pierce when i can find them and they sound great and last a long time strings for a steel guitar seem to be harder to find even on the forum.

We had our buddy jay leonard j take a look at both our pure nickel broadways and our nickel wound nickel plated steel signatures to explore both the sonic and the tactile differences of each. No more overnight rustage. The question came up today of what is the difference between nickel or chrome or stainless steel electric guitar strings. Pure nickel vs nickel wound or nickel plated steel guitar strings.

Nickel strings and stainless steel strings. Resulting in massive amounts of rust. But the brighter stainless sound is good for most everything else and the stainless steel wound strings seem to keep their new sound a little longer.