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Dave Cochran
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Can anyone give me an idea about the Live Strings? Been buying from Bobbe, really like them, and locals don't carry them.
Any good/bad reviews?
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Post by Rick Barnhart »

You really ought to post in the correct category. With recent revelations, a post ilike this in the Gone Home section is likely to upset a lot of folks unnecessarily.
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Post by Dave Grothusen »

Surely the moderator will get this moved. Live strings has a web site. livesteelstrings
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Erv Niehaus
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Post by Erv Niehaus »

I am having very good results with Live Steel Strings.
I'm getting the best tone out of the high 3rd than I've ever gotten.
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Post by Steve Lipsey »

do a search - there are some very long threads on these strings - all positive...
www.facebook.com/swingaliband & a few more....
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Kevin Raymer
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Post by Kevin Raymer »

Check the web site.

Livesteelstrings.com

I ordered on tues, had them by Friday, and I ordered custom guages.

Good strings, Great people.

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Foplks, my humble apologies. Was not aware I was still on the SAD topic and would not deliberatly do so. Again I do apologize.
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Post by Richard Sinkler »

No need to apologize. Many threads posted on here are on subjects already discussed. Searching for old topics is a real pain in the butt and often yields so many results that are unrelated to your search. Go ahead and post your question. Different people will chime in on your thread that didn't post on a previous one, and some even change their minds on a subject. If there are previous posts, someone will bring it up and ask you to do a search. Some even go so far as to post links to them.
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Jason Lynch
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Post by Jason Lynch »

Up to recently I used SIT's. tried Jagwires and wasn't overly impressed so tried Live Steels.
Wow. Easiest to put on, tuned up th pitch easiest, stayed in easiest.. I've another set in reserve and will be buying more. I love them.
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Post by Richard Sinkler »

I really loved Jagwires, but when I couldn't get them, I switched to Live Steel Strings,and have never looked back. Great strings.
Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, NV400, NV112 . Playing for 53 years and still counting.
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Steve Lipsey
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and think about trying their Cryogenic strings....they seem to last forever....
www.facebook.com/swingaliband & a few more....
Williams S10s, Milkman Pedal Steel Mini & "The Amp"
Ben Bonham "CooderNator" archtop parlor electric reso w/Fishman & Lollar string-through
Ben Bonham "ResoBorn" deep parlor acoustic reso with Weissenborn neck and Fishman
Ben Bonham Style 3 Tricone., 1954 Oahu Diana, 1936 Oahu Parlor Squareneck
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Don Griffiths
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Post by Don Griffiths »

I just put my first set on a few weeks ago and just loving them. No breakage, but mostly they just have that new string ((((ring)))) to them. Best I've tried.
And a plug for bOb and the USPS, and buying them through the forum. I ordered them in the early afternoon on a Thursday from the forum website,hoping to optimistically get them Monday. They were delivered in the mail the next day ,early Friday afternoon! How does he do it? ;-)
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Post by Tommy Boswell »

Steve Lipsey wrote:and think about trying their Cryogenic strings....they seem to last forever....
The web site seems to be a little short on information, or maybe I just don't know where to look. How do you decide between "Cyrogenic E9 Nashville Nickel" and "Cyrogenic E9 Standard Nickel". What's the difference?

I can't find any detailed product descriptions.
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Post by Lane Gray »

I find their website dreadful (characterized by lots of flash stuff that doesn't really do anything more than look flashy, and all instances of the phone number are in graphics, not a single place to copy and paste, but there's more), but their phone service wonderful.
I'll bet that the difference lies in a different gauge string or two.
Give them a call, they're really good on the phone. And I like their strings.
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High 3rd string

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Woa I am using Live Steel strings and my high third string sounds almost dead. I have changed it but still sounds almost dead. What could cause that? Is it the guitar (Zum) or the strings?
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Post by Lane Gray »

I'd look for a little bit of schmutz on the arc of the finger. 90% of the time a string thunks when the rest sing, I find there's something under the string. Once, a small piece of lint did it.
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Post by Joachim Kettner »

Lane Gray wrote:I'd look for a little bit of schmutz
:whoa:
I wonder where you did get that word, Lane?
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Post by Lane Gray »

In the suburbs of DC where I grew up, Yiddish was as common as spaghetti: I think there were 6 Jewish families on my block alone (including my next door neighbors)
English is GREATLY enhanced by yiddishims. Of course, the Marxes and Youngmans didn't hurt either.
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Post by Joachim Kettner »

Interesting. Back in the sixties I used to buy my jeans fom a jewish man, he had all sorts of colors. The store had a special vibe. Sorry for the topic drift.
Fender Kingman, Sierra Crown D-10, Evans Amplifier, Soup Cube.
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