FenderOriginal 150 Guitar Strings, Pure Nickel Wound, Ball End, 150R .010-.046 Gauges, 3-Pack

I bought my first Fender Strat (Player series) after over 20 yers of playing Gibson- and medium-scale guitars. My first strat impression was that this guitar was so hard to play. It was very stiff no matter what gauge or brand of strings I bought. Then I bought these strings and finally my strat became a real joy to play. They literally transformed it into a fantastic guitar! The strings are nice and slinky, they have just the right amount of tension for me, they sound very organic and natural, and they feel really smooth and just... perfect! For this guitar this is the type of strings I've been looking for. I'm sticking to these.

Good quality and price

Product arrived on time, cheap, and in good condition.When fitted to my dead sounding Chinese no-name plank of a Strat copy, the resulting sound was amazingly like that of the real one I used to gig with back in the 60s even unplugged, with a mellow but full ranged tone and natural sustain.Through Guitar Rig, it's crummy ceramic pups managed to produce a reasonable copy of the traditional Fender twang, quack, and clank, although a bit biased towards Telecaster style treble.This was the best fivers worth I've spent in a long time, a total transformation but...... I don't do the everything turned up to eleven bit much, I'd sooner hear the guitar than white noise, so don't ask me if they do Sir Terry Pratchett's "cat going to the toilet through a sewed up bum" sound though I'd love to be able to do an "EVH",The brightness is starting to wear off a bit after a week of daily practice but for home use , I should get a month or so out of them. Of course for stage use, if you're not being paid enough to change them every gig, you should get a job on the whelk stall outside instead!

These strings are quite bright compared with the super bullets I have had previously

great strings

I started playing in the early '70s since I had a Fender it follows to use Fender strings. Brilliant strings then and still the same quality now. It keeps us rocking.

These are my favourite strings I have discovered so far. Having pure nickel strings as oppose to nickel plated or nickel coated strings, really brings a sense of life to the music you play. These became my favourite strings about two years ago. Before I used these I was like everybody else, I just used Ernie Ball or Di'Addario, maybe switched up the gauges from time to time. You may be very sceptical about all of this. But since I changed to these strings, my friends said my tone got great as if out from nowhere. I like to think it's because I'm growing as a guitar player. But there's no denying these strings sound amazing. But I'm always up to try out something new. What are your favourite strings? Do you think I'm wrong? Do you think there's better strings out there? Please feel free to comment, I would love to hear suggestions from other players.

these are a great sounding string - more mellow than e-balls. seem to stay in tune well once stretched and I haven't broke any as yet. I've put the 11-49 on my telecaster (would normally use e-ball power slinky 11-48) this goes into a fender twin so quite a trad sound. Give these a try if you fancy a change - the tonal range isn't as consistent as the e-balls so you may need to adjust your EQ a little bit, however these are a retro string, very usable with a warm tone and friendly feel. Don't know what the lighter gauges are like? still got 10-46 e-ball on my Gibson 335; will repost when I restring as I think I'll give the 10's a go on the Gibson. Not an expensive experiment really, these were £4.30 inc post.