Flatwound strings for 22” scale octave mandolin

[fox]

Does anyone have any experience useing flatwounds (GDAE) on a ocatave ?
If so what were the gauges and what did they perform like?
Thanks Fox.

[mandroid]

No Experience , but you can break out the brass balls on Guitar string
to make up a non existent loop end set that wont exist otherwise..

you already use round wound strings,? using those gages is a starting point..

[colorado_al]

Emando recommends
.045 .035 .024 .013
for that length in flatwound
http://emando.com/shop/strings8va.htm

[fox]

[QUOTE=mandroid;1701673]No Experience , but you can break out the brass balls on Guitar string
to make up a non existent loop end set that wont exist otherwise..

you already use round wound strings,? using those gages is a starting point..

[QUOTE=mandroid;1701673]No Experience , but you can break out the brass balls on Guitar string
to make up a non existent loop end set that wont exist otherwise..

you already use round wound strings,? using those gages is a starting point..


Yeah well, maybe but I have become a little confused about if flatwounds are the same tension per diameter as rounds?
Then we have the issue with availability and cost, that is really why I ask if anyone has experience because it would seem experimenting with flatwound could be pretty expensive?

[colorado_al]

Flatwound are not the same tension per diameter as roundwound.
You can use the string tension pro to see what changes in string type will do to tension
http://stringtensionpro.com/