Hello everyone, long time lurker here.
Wondering if anyone has any experience with the Thomastick-Infeld light mandolin strings. My favorite string vendor has them on sale so I'm tempted.
I currently have the “mittels” medium gauge strings on this mandolin and I love them. The low tension and smooth strings makes for almost effortless fretting. From what I have read they’re more equivalent to light gauge strings from other manufacturers and are safe for flat top mandos. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
So as I’m looking toward my next string change, I’m wondering if I’ll like the TI lights even more.
The G string nut slots were filed a little low when I first got the M-11 a few years ago so there was some barely noticeable buzzing on the open G strings with the GHS medium-lights it came with.
When I put the TI mittels on I had some severe string buzzing on the open G string. A small amount of super glue and baking soda to fill the slots and re-filing fixed that. I don’t want to have to do that again!
Any thoughts on TI lights? I might have to just try them on my old bowl back first.
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