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I use Ernie Ball Super Slinky's (9's), always have and love 'em, but that's beside the point.
How much do Ernie Ball Super Slinky's cost for you in the States?
Over here they are around £4.50 per set which translates to around $7.50 per set.
Just interested as we seem to get screwed on price for everything over here.
$3.99 at musician's friend - but that doesn't include shipping.
Damn that is cheap. We are paying about twice as much as you for the same thing. Of course 20% of that goes to our government straight away in VAT (value added tax..... I see no value in it :-) )
you'd have to buy $100 worth of them to get that price (free shipping).
on a more likely sale (pack of ten), it probably works out to around $4.25-$5.00 each.
Those are the exact strings I've always used, love em and they have great staying power.
Anyway, I used to buy them up at local music stores for $4.99 a set - but just recently I started picking them up at Best Buy of all places ...$3.99 per set!
I've always been a D'Addario guy. Ernie and I never really got along.
since I have a preference, it will probably turn out that both brands use the same strings from some chinese factory... heh.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/daddario-exl110-nickel-light-electric-guitar-strings-10-pack/h71081000000000
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/daddario-exl115-nickel-blues-jazz-electric-guitar-strings-10-pack/h71080000000000
$36.99 for ten
Jon — Sep 02, 2011I use Ernie Ball Super Slinky's (9's), always have and love 'em, but that's beside the point.
How much do Ernie Ball Super Slinky's cost for you in the States?
Over here they are around £4.50 per set which translates to around $7.50 per set.
Just interested as we seem to get screwed on price for everything over here.
Well I feel gangraped! I pay nearly $A20 for Fender strings here in Oz.
Max — Sep 02, 2011[quote author=Jon G link=1314959355/0#0 date=1314959355]I use Ernie Ball Super Slinky's (9's), always have and love 'em, but that's beside the point.
How much do Ernie Ball Super Slinky's cost for you in the States?
Over here they are around £4.50 per set which translates to around $7.50 per set.
Just interested as we seem to get screwed on price for everything over here.
Well I feel gangraped! I pay nearly $A20 for Fender strings here in Oz.
Jesus, that approx £13 GBP and $21 US dollars. Fuck !
My guy at GC throws in a free pack every time I buy something. When I do buy them he'll always say "you want 3 packs don't you?" And then he'll do 3 for $10. I use Ernie Ball 9's, 9 light top heavy bottom, 10's, and I've got a set of 10 light top heavy bottoms that I'm going to use soon for drop tunings. Plus I use D'Ads on several guitars as well.
I used Ernie Ball Super Slinky's for decades (there was actually a custom version called "Doc T's" that I used since I knew Doc T at the time). I never had any problems with them.
Now I try lots of different brands trying to see which I prefer after moving up to 10's...
While at GC yesterday I took a look at their price for the EB SS's...$5.49 per pack. I'll stick to my Best Buy find of $3.99, just have to wonder how short lived their crazy idea of carrying music gear is gonna last. :-?
I know that for a long time Ernie Balls were made in Santa Barbara, California. I bought a 10-pack of D'Addario 10's for $30 at Guitar Center a month or two ago. Every once in a while they run the same deal on the Musician's Friend site.
charger — Sep 03, 2011I know that for a long time Ernie Balls were made in Santa Barbara, California. I bought a 10-pack of D'Addario 10's for $30 at Guitar Center a month or two ago. Every once in a while they run the same deal on the Musician's Friend site.
I use those D'Addarios XL110's meeself. I have about 20 sets sitting around the house. Since there is no humidity in the desert here they last forever. I usually pay around three bucks when I buy 10 sets at a time.
I pay nothing for strings. At Christmas time the kids at school start asking what I want. I tell them "Ernie Ball Bitches". The get the right gauge and eveything. I always have an abundance of strings. I'm too lazy to chang ethem out until they get rusty as hell.
^^ I've been the same way my entire guitar playing life, super lazy with changing strings, especially considering 99% of my guitars have always had Floyds....but just in the last couple of years I've discovered what most have always known, wiping them down sure adds a sick amount of time to their life!! Now I ALWAYS hit 'em with a rag before the guitar goes back to the stand, always. Now that's cheap!
yeah, here's the key to that. This stuff makes my strings last basically until one breaks! Saves ole acid fingers Adamson even more than it saves me! :D
My solution is just to have a crapload of guitars... really saves time between string changes.
charger — Sep 08, 2011My solution is just to have a crapload of guitars... really saves time between string changes.
I nominate this approach as the best. ;)
I'm fond of this as well. But even sitting with dirty strings makes them deteriorate, so the Dunlop stuff is still the ticket. Along with lots of guitars. :) (I'm up to 10 now).
I got up to 14 (not counting basses), but am now down to my two customs (with a third in long-term suspension until I can afford to get it finished!).
Of course, my customs do EVERYTHING and more than my others did combined.
My dream naturally is to get more customs made eventually since they're all taylored around the same body style, neck profile, scale & radius, etc. I'd like to get a 12-string, a baritone, a 5-string bass and one of those almost-basses (like a Fender Bass VI). Sure, those will have longer scales, but will look like the rest. Oh yeah, and one with Variax acoustic guts in it! All in different colors including "natural" of course. ;)
Damn all you double digit guitar owners! I'm down to 4 (not counting acoustics or bass).
I've been reducing my guitar collection the last couple of years, guitars were the only thing I simply didn't need so many of. Keeping a minimalist approach these days (a couple amps, couple cabs, couple good mics, small collection of speakers, pedals, etc). Pretty happy with my gear right now...small but efficient stash of toys.
I was counting my acoustics (3) in that number. Keeping in mind, one of them is a Baby Taylor and one is my dads old Gibson.
Kabala — Sep 09, 2011
Damn all you double digit guitar owners! I'm down to 4 (not counting acoustics or bass).
I've been reducing my guitar collection the last couple of years, guitars were the only thing I simply didn't need so many of. Keeping a minimalist approach these days (a couple amps, couple cabs, couple good mics, small collection of speakers, pedals, etc). Pretty happy with my gear right now...small but efficient stash of toys.
Bwah! I'm with you dude. Strat, Nez, Washburn Acoustic/Electric, And a first act acoustic for the kids. I've thinned the herd.
Used to have a room you couldn't walk through because of all the guitars. But now it's just the 3 work horses and the kids guitar. Though I do want about 2 more strats for different things and a big hollow body of some sorts for other things. My next purchase will either be one of the Strats or an amp. Gonna sell the C50 at some point.
Fenderbender — Sep 09, 2011But now it's just the 3 work horses
Good way to put it. I caught myself acting like a guitar collector rather than a weekend warrior hobbyist/musician, put a stop to it and now the focus (for me) is back where I like it...playing and making more mileage outta what I have, not "wan't."
I switched from DR to Dunlop nickel strings on my electrics. Good life, feel and tone and about $4.00 vs. $7.50. For me the slightly lower tension is a plus. If I wipe them down every time I play (I use jewelry cleaning wipes) I can wear them out instead of rotting them out in a week. I have caustic sweat I guess.
Once the elasticity is gone in one string in a set they are trash, so hours played combined with bending abuse usually kills them for me before the corrosion.
I tend to rotate between the Strat and Les Paul - changing strings on the next when one goes bad. Two work horses and one acoustic I play almost daily. Two electrics I bring out rarely.
I haven't actually bought a "guitar" in many years... I just build them...