Pink strings..

skunkwerx

Thought I'd mix it up a bit...

mankytom

Love it.. how do they play? 

skullfunkerry

Nice! I used to have black strings on my guitars when I was gigging. Where did you get them from? Last time I looked I couldn’t find any coloured coatings.

Kittyfrisk

Looking great   Are they DR Neon's?

guitars4you

Any one remember Nashville Straight’s - sold in a long straight package (so as the strings stayed straight and not coiled)

Funkfingers

guitars4you said:

Any one remember Nashville Straights - sold in a long straight package (so as the strings stayed straight and not coiled)?

Yes. I am that old.

I only recall them being Phosphor Bronze for acoustic guitars.

skunkwerx

mankytom said:

Love it.. how do they play? 

To be honest I like the sound and feel of them, I had a few packs of the DR black beauties and used those up, gave these a go, and whilst they sound the same the plain string coating literally disintegrated within the hour, to the point the high e was like a sitar haha. 

Its a common complaint. I wish they'd make the coating stick. 

skullfunkerry said:

Nice! I used to have black strings on my guitars when I was gigging. Where did you get them from? Last time I looked I couldn’t find any coloured coatings.

Yeah DR Neon's these were, Thomann stock the Black Beauties and sometimes Andertons, if not the rest are on Amazon, sold and fulfilled by Amazon so should be legit. 

Kittyfrisk said:

Looking great   Are they DR Neon's?

They are indeed!

OilCityPickups

I tried a Black Beauty black 7 string set .... awful sound and the coating came off on five minutes. They seemed to have really low tension to the point they buggered my Ibanez's action up ... and strangely for coated strings, WAY too much scratchy treble. Of course this may have been just the black ones ... but it really put me off DRs  

TheMarlin

OilCityPickups said:

I tried a Black Beauty black 7 string set .... awful sound and the coating came off on five minutes. They seemed to have really low tension to the point they buggered my Ibanez's action up ... and strangely for coated strings, WAY too much scratchy treble. Of course this may have been just the black ones ... but it really put me off DRs  

Try the DR Pure Blues.  Great (uncoated) strings 

OilCityPickups

TheMarlin said:

OilCityPickups said:

I tried a Black Beauty black 7 string set .... awful sound and the coating came off on five minutes. They seemed to have really low tension to the point they buggered my Ibanez's action up ... and strangely for coated strings, WAY too much scratchy treble. Of course this may have been just the black ones ... but it really put me off DRs  

Try the DR Pure Blues.  Great (uncoated) strings 

Will give em a whirl ... 

Musicwolf

guitars4you said:

Any one remember Nashville Straight’s - sold in a long straight package (so as the strings stayed straight and not coiled)

I never tried a set, but I do recall them being advertised in whichever music related publication I was reading at that time (International Musician and Recording World?).

SteveRobinson

skullfunkerry said:

Nice! I used to have black strings on my guitars when I was gigging.

You should have changed them more often

Alterlifeson

SteveRobinson said:

skullfunkerry said:

Nice! I used to have black strings on my guitars when I was gigging.

You should have changed them more often

I too have some rust coloured stings on an acoustic. Really pleased with how they are finally starting to naturally relic.