GHS Strings

[TommyJ]

I was in wal-mart today and as I was walking past the
guitar display I saw guitar strings and got to looking and they had ghs jammers,I didnt know they had a new line of strings..
anyone else know of it?

[Kap'n]

I was in wal-mart today and as I was walking past the
guitar display I saw guitar strings and got to looking and they had ghs jammers,I didnt know they had a new line of strings..
anyone else know of it?

Funny, they're not on the GHS website.

I'm betting they're the bottom of the barrel, shittiest strings possible, as cheap as possible to make.

It fits in with the Wal-Mart way of thinking.

[TommyJ]

Even shitier than the first act strings?
They had 2 types of them 1 in a plastic package 3.47 a pack
and then one in a tin called crunches,they're sealed like d'addario's.
5.84 for them..
The GHS Jammers are 3.84 a pack it say's in the sleave they are
made from imported sweadish steel and nickle plated.

[Plugger]

What country does the nickel come from?

-Mark

[TommyJ]

URANUSS!!! LOL!!
Hey man!! I was just curious,I think I'll stick to my D'addario's..
After I'm done with these cheap shittie jammers..

[Joobsauce]

GHS strings are JUNK, I was using tem and snapping them like twigs. D'addarios for the win!

[Kap'n]

I've never liked GHS strings either, but that's a personal tonal choice. I've never had an issue with them breaking.

[JAM]

Years ago I used GHS too and never had a breakage problem.

[NeoFauve]

If they're in WalMart, either GHS is making them in China, or they're imported and "branded" as GHS or some such shenannigans.

How much cheaper that a 3-pack of D'Addarios do strings "need" to be?
(see tagline)

[TommyJ]

It's not really so much as the price of them,it was the name that caught my eye,Jammers by GHS,the packaging is aimed at kids.
Reminds me of the cheap hammer guitars,The slammer.LOL!!!
But the leaflet says:
Ghs Electric guitar strings utilize a nickle plated steel wrap.
Manufactured using multiple wraps around a strong,Sweadish steal core wire.
It say's they're manufactured in Battle Creek Mich..With domestic and imported materials..I think they're just boomers with a diffent name slapped on them..LOL!!!
The only reason I bought them was because I just happen to need
some strings at the time,and wanted to try them..So I put them on my
Les Paul so far so good,they sound good and are staying in tune..

[Plugger]

I normally use D'Addarios, but I've tried webstrings.com, and I may like them even more than the D'Addarios. Not sure yet. They're pretty good for the price at any rate.

-Mark

[LoveBandit]

I like D'Addarios or Ernie Ball Classic regular slinkys in 10 gauge. GHS's sound dead right out of the packet to me. LB.

[photoweborama]

I use GHS... that's pretty much all I use... I used to used the Fatties line, but that got discontinued, now I get the GHS Rockers...

I've bought strings at Wal*Mart before. They aren't cheap there. I can get them cheaper at Guitar Center than at Walmart. They were selling Gibson Brite Wires at our Walmart until the stock ran out.

I have not checked what they have in stock for a long time..

We all have different experiences with strings.. Now with me, I was breaking Ernie Ball's like crazy, so I stopped using them, and D'Addario's were great until a few years ago and I could never intonate my guitars with them on. Went through several sets and they just would not intonate. Thats when I switched to the GHS strings.

But that's just me... YMMV

[Gravity Jim]

I guess I'm really out of it, but I swear this is the first time I've ever heard "Swedish" used as a description of top-quality steel.

[TommyJ]

I agree with ya GJ,It would have been better if they said they
were made out of Medieval steel..LOL!!!

[stratcat55]

If Walmart's selling them they probably got lead in em.

[trevorus]

I'm another one that has had less than satisfactory tone results with GHS. Our guitarist at church uses them all the time, and he sounds fine, but they just never worked for me. I get D'Addario's really cheap around here, so i use those on my guitars and basses.

[Kap'n]

If Walmart's selling them they probably got lead in em.

Perfect for lead guitar then.

[Kap'n]

I guess I'm really out of it, but I swear this is the first time I've ever heard "Swedish" used as a description of top-quality steel.

I've seen it before in guitar string ads, but in general Swedish Metal doesn't do anything for me.

[TommyJ]

I do like sweadish meatballs..
My favorite strings are ernie ball,D'addario and GHS Boomers.
D'addario's on my 60 anni mim strat,ernie balls on my Les Paul
and GHS Boomers on my 335 copy..
I think the slammers are boomer's,I would'nt be surprised if GHS
changes the name to slammers and does away with the boomer name,just to try and increase sell's,IMO that would be a big mistake...

[stratcat55]

D'Addario's for me too. I get 3 sets for ten bucks at my local music store. That's cheaper then I was paying for strings years ago.

[elicross]

I've seen it before in guitar string ads, but in general Swedish Metal doesn't do anything for me.

Vy do you hate us, Kapn?!

[TommyJ]

OOOOHHHHH SSSSHIIIT Kapt'n...
I hope they dont have your ISP.....
If so abandon your amp and run like hell........
Make sure all your credit cards are chopped up first!!!!!

[elicross]

I think they just want some candy. Their mommies always make 'em go trick or treating on the Saturday before Halloween, if it's on a school night.

[Joobsauce]

Sorry guys, I just don't like GHS. Not much snap out of the package (dead) and they break easy for me. Then again I cant find them in a gauge over 9 so eh.

I've found that D'addario strings work great for blues and clean where you need the low end bite, Fender strings work good in a nice clean sound where you don't want the extra string girth, and Ernie Balls sound great on humbucker equipped guitars, sound very smooth like. :)

Maybe it's just me.

[elicross]

I used to swear by GHS Boomers, but one day when I couldn't get 'em, I tried some D'Addario XLs, and I really do think they're better. The next time I was at the local shop, I bought a three-pack.

[rockntommy]

Perfect for lead guitar then.

Too funny!

I use the GHS Boomers with Zero issues.
They tune right up and they are not too pricey.

[Notyethendrix]

Seems no one use Fender bullets?

[Kap'n]

Seems no one use Fender bullets?

Fender strings, for me at least, have lifetimes measured in minutes.

[photoweborama]

Seems no one use Fender bullets?

Those bullet ends can be a pain to get out if they break...

Fender strings have a smooth wrap on them.

[Plugger]

Fender strings, for me at least, have lifetimes measured in minutes.

Well, just to be picky you can measure _any_ time interval in minutes.

The Big Bang was approximately

13.7 x 10^9 x 365.25 x 24 x 60 = ~7.2 x 10^15 minutes ago

Just sayin'...

-Mark

[elicross]

Those bullet ends can be a pain to get out if they break...

Hell, they can be a pain to get out even if they DON'T break. The Stratocaster Handbook recommends keeping a cake tester -- just a long, thin steel skewer -- handy to poke through the bridge and dislodge those pesky strings. I sometimes cut a segment of the low E string I'm removing and use it the same way.

I've used Fender Bullets exactly twice: Once on my Squier Strat, until the factory strings wore out; and once on my Fender Strat, until the factory strings wore out.

Come to think of it, I've used Gibson strings exactly once: On my LP Custom until the factory strings wore out. Which didn't take long, because the high E broke within an hour of my taking the guitar home.

I have a low opinion of strings made by guitar manufacturers, based on the strings that came stock on my Fenders and Gibson. I don't hate them enough to immediately replace them when I get a new guitar, but I'd never buy Fender or Gibson strings to replace them.

[Kap'n]

Well, just to be picky you can measure _any_ time interval in minutes.

The Big Bang was approximately

13.7 x 10^9 x 365.25 x 24 x 60 = ~7.2 x 10^15 minutes ago

Just sayin'...

-Mark

Would you settle for <60?

[bluesaholic]

Seems no one use Fender bullets?

I've never seen them too much at GC where I live,,although I've got a set on my american deluxe strat right now that I bought when I was in corona at the fender guitar museum..

[TommyJ]

I've used fender bullet's on my strat,if you have a zinc block they tend to burrow into it,if you put a little 3 in 1 oil on the bullet ends
and polish it off it helps alot..If you have the steel block like I have on
my strat now not much of a prob..But I prefer the D'addario's on my strat..

[Kap'n]

I've used fender bullet's on my strat,if you have a zinc block they tend to burrow into it,if you put a little 3 in 1 oil on the bullet ends
and polish it off it helps alot..

That's a lot of work to change a set of strings.

[TommyJ]

I know, That is why I dont use them anymore...

[CzarSketch]

i swear by GHS boomers on my les paul. much better than the ernie balls i was trying. haven't used d'adarrios since I bought the guitar though, guess they're worth trying again.

[toobalicious]

Fender strings, for me at least, have lifetimes measured in minutes.

cant speak for anyone else, but i used to really *like* the fender 150's (non-bullet and allegedly "pure" nickel wrap). somehow, pure nickel wraps always sounded better to me with s/c pickups than did nickel-plated ones. i liked the DR "pure blues" too, but they got a little pricey and harder to get locally (for me at least). in true blasphemous manner, i have been nearly exclusively using plated webstrings for awhile, if only because i bought a crapload of them, and they seem to last pretty well, even with my string-killing body chemistry.
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[toobalicious]

oh, and that same body chemistry absolutely KILLS boomers, dynamite or not.
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