Anyone tried Fazley Strings From Bax Music?

jaymenon

I'm just filling up my shopping cart at Bax Music to avail of free shipping - and I came across these strings (10-46 and other gauges) at £1.49 a set.

Anyone here had any personal experience with these? Apparently (like vacuum tubes) there are very few string manufacturers in the world - but I don't know if I believe that entirely...

skunkwerx

Cant say I’ve heard of them. 

Though I have heard about there being not many manufacturers. 

Possibly those that do manufacture make various brands with different quality materials/specs etc. 

I guess for £1.50 they’re worth a punt though!

jaymenon

£1.32 if you buy 4 sets :-))

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Fazley is a trade name used by Bax . Thay have sold guitars with the same name . I don't know anything about the strings , but the guitars were  not very good . 

kentuckyklira

jaymenon said:

I'm just filling up my shopping cart at Bax Music to avail of free shipping - and I came across these strings (10-46 and other gauges) at £1.49 a set.

Anyone here had any personal experience with these? Apparently (like vacuum tubes) there are very few string manufacturers in the world - but I don't know if I believe that entirely...

I always buy the cheapest strings from Thomann. They´re perfectly OK for 1,50 € a set.

jaymenon

I suppose round core strings might feel different from hexagonal core strings.  But that applies only to the wound strings - and I suspect most of us play solos (or at least execute string bends) largely on the plain strings...

I feel (IMHO) that I can detect some difference between different brands of acoustic guitar strings, but then we’re talking a much wider frequency spectrum (and I might well be deluded about my own auditory sensory ability).

Guitar speakers don’t output very much above 5KHz - is that why we tend not to feel the need to change electric strings that often (unless you’re an acidic sweater)?

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  String brands  don't make  their own wire and some don't make their wound strings . Most of the mysteries of sting manufacture, the  relationship of the core and windings  . The best gauges of different tunings, and stuff like that ,was worked out years ago. Until recently most strings were packed by hand , into paper envelops.  Martin  shipped strings to  Mexico  to be packed .  The Chines have a different economic set up ,focus on making things as cheep  as possible and taking  the   biggest  chunk   of the global market as possible. The quality  can be good and very cheep . But , only for the mass market . The  strings I sell might not be much better   than  cheep strings, but  my  market is small and specialised.