Stainless Steel Strings
I'm trying something new. We don't have any gigs for a couple of weeks so I put on a set of Mapes stainless steel strings last night just to try them out, At first glance, they seem to sound pretty good. I'll reserve final judgement 'til I've played them a while. (I put them on the Breedlove Legacy FF.)
I wanted to try the stainless because I'm tough on strings. Something in my system starts to corrode most strings within the first 3 or 4 weeks and I end up changing them every month-and-a-half or so. I'm hoping the stainless will be a little more resistant to the corrosion. I know there are varying qualities of stainless steel so I'll see what happens.
David Hopkins
2001 Gibson F-5L mandolin
Breedlove Legacy FF mandolin; Breedlove Quartz FF mandolin
Gibson F-4 mandolin (1916); Blevins f-style Octave mandolin, 2018
McCormick Oval Sound Hole "Reinhardt" Mandolin
McCormick Solid Body F-Style Electric Mandolin; Slingerland Songster Guitar (c. 1939)
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