fishing line diameter?

[hove64]

what is the recommended fishing line (Seaguar Blue Label Fluorocarbon )
diameter, (or braking strength), for a high E string?
...and for a G string (replacing the wound)
for a GDAE mandolin and for GDAE uke

thanks

[kjbllc]

all that info is available on line

[Timbofood]

Once you start, you’ll be hooked!

[Willie Poole]

Appalachian Bluegrass in Catonsville Md. gives lessons on Uke playing and setting up so if you Google them and ask that question they most likely can answer it...

Willie

[Timbofood]

Get the wrong information and you’ll end up with a sinker!
I know, I’m going to my corner right now!

[hove64]

i searched for 2 hours.
i will appreciate a link.

[hove64]

all that info is available on line

i searched for 2 hours.
i will appreciate a link.

[JeffD]

I hope this helps.

[kjbllc]

first I would look up the diameter of the nylon string from a string manufacturer, then find the line manufacturer and cross reference

[mandroid]

Buy a digital caliper to measure things 1st hand yet?

I got one from stew Mac, costs a bit more than, like Harbor Freight,
but when the IC went goofy they shipped a new one, free And i sent the old one back....

[Jeff Mando]

I see what you're doing here...............buy a $10 spool of line and make 4000 sets of uke strings!!!! Well, it is certainly legal, but not sure what it is going to sound like......

[pops1]

I wouldn't care as much about the diameter as the # weight of the string so it could stand the tension. A little experimenting would be in order and you can fish with the line you don't use.

[hove64]

these are the specs i got regarding uke: (thanks JeffD)

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Diameters vary with manufacturers. For soprano and concert strings I have seen a ranges of:

A: 0.020-0.024";
E: 0.026-0.033";
C: 0.036-0.041";
high G: 0.020-0.028".

For tenors:

A: 0.028-0.029";
E: 0.033-0.036";
C: 0.035-0.041";
high G: 0.029-0.032".
Low G (wound) will be around 0.035".

and tension:

Nylon-string ukuleles put less pressure on the bridge and top than guitars, even nylon stringed guitars. Larger ukes have more tension. According to Kawika, Inc. these are the approximate tensions on the various sizes ukes:

Soprano: 21 lb.
Concert: 33 lb.
Tenor: 39 lb.
Baritone: 53 lb.
6-string tenor: 65 lb.
8-string tenor: 83 lb.

In comparison, a classical guitar has 75-90 lbs. of tension and a steel-string guitar has 150-200 lbs.
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but if i am correct -
Mandolin G3 \ D4 \ A4 \ E5
Uke(Low)G3 \ C4 \ A4 \ E4

so, regarding diameter, i can only borrow the A4 diameter from uke (since the G3 diameter is for wound- i need to find unwound low G diameter)
nor can i use the E which i am specifically looking for.

so regarding the low G, this is what i found:
Single packaged 4th unwound Soprano Low G tuning Code 70U (gauge: 1.02 mm); .40 inches

-Single packaged 4th unwound Concert Low G tuning Code 71U (gauge: 1.04 mm); .41 inches

-Single packaged 4th unwound Tenor Low G tuning Code 72U (gauge: 1.07 mm); .43 inchyes

-Single packaged 4th D unwound Baritone DGBE tuning Code 74U (gauge: 1.25 mm); .49 inches
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Do you guys buy a whole set, each time you break an E, or are you just not using nylon?
and what about wanting to use unwound (nylon)G for the mandolin?

[hove64]

BTW, i broke my E from the aquila 30U set, so , for the moment i replaced it with a uke A (or is it a high G?? not sure).
it works fine and sounds ok, but a bit stiff.
i wouldn't use it more than for emergency