12 gauge flatwounds! Make them stronger than D’Addarios and I would make the change immediately. My Jazzmaster breaks the ball end off of those things like nobody’s business as soon as I start using the tremolo (actually vibrato) bar, which is irritating because it’s like $10+ per pack (close to $12 right now but that’s because prices always spike a bit between New Years and summer, plus the economy situation isn’t helping anything) and the strings SOUND good forever, assuming the colored ball doesn’t break out.
The $5 Slinkys on my Strat will never ever break no matter what but they start sounding super lousy inside of a couple of weeks. Boo Ernie Ball. I may pick up a pack of EHX 10’s and see how they fare this week, actually – it would be a welcome change for my poor, neglected Stratocaster.
