Greetings all!
Have been doing some poking around for information and have found it to be a little bit daunting finding string sets. I'm a jazz player and I am particularly interested in having all wound strings except for the E - like the way the thomastiks are available in this manner. However, the thomastiks don't have ball-ends (they've confirmed directly by email). I could try to gently guide the strings in with perhaps a little bit of silicon to hold the ball in while I draw tension on the strings (I bet it's kind of a pain). The reason I was thinking about using the thomastiks is that they have a nice thin ~14-16g flat-wound A.
My other option is to use a set of d'daddario chrome guitar strings or similar - perhaps the light set, (11-50 I believe) and just leave out the E string.
Has anyone had any experience with getting 4 wounds strings on a 5 string electric with ball-ends? Would a 14g E string be too much tension or would this be ok? I've used guitar strings this heavy in the past without issue - just not sure if they will work on the mandolin.
Thanks for your time!
-Jeannie
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