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cnotold

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string price
« on: June 22, 2009, 10:01:42 PM »
hi guys, i just can't beliebe how expensive strings are these days. I mean i used to get D'ADDARIO EXL110 10set for around 30GBP from local shop but since they've shut down, i couldn't source 'em at that price range anymore. Where do you get your strings from?
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Twinfan

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Re: string price
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2009, 10:05:30 PM »
www.stringsdirect.co.uk

Or I buy a bundle at guitar shows....
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Re: string price
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2009, 10:16:30 PM »
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ailean

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Re: string price
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2009, 10:37:44 PM »
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Re: string price
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2009, 10:43:41 PM »
i have a massive bunch of newtone strings now.

They take a while too come from newtone because they are made to order, worth the wait but i got impatient and got some standard newtone sets from strings direct while i was waiting.

so i guess thats another +1 for strings direct
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Re: string price
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2009, 10:56:51 PM »
stringbusters is often a little cheaper than stringsdirect, i've found.
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Re: string price
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2009, 11:41:42 PM »
I just restrung my LP with some fresh Newtones. I love these strings ^^
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Lew

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Re: string price
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2009, 03:33:41 AM »
I'm sucking it up to support my local shop in these hard times  8)
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Re: string price
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2009, 06:23:10 AM »
Quote from: Lew!! on June 23, 2009, 03:33:41 AM
I'm sucking it up to support my local shop in these hard times  8)

Me too. In fact he does a 3 for 2 deal on Roto reds which I think is pretty reasonable.
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Dmoney

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Re: string price
« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2009, 07:02:59 AM »
plectrum price is annoying too!

GONE are the days when a good pick was a few pence! now its a problem finding a shop that will lend you one you steal when you try a guitar out
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Pete24v

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Re: string price
« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2009, 07:27:27 AM »
www.hotroxuk.com

£3.05 for a set of Rotosound, compared to £3.95 at strings direct
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Re: string price
« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2009, 01:10:22 PM »
Quote from: Dmoney on June 23, 2009, 07:02:59 AM
plectrum price is annoying too!

Yeah, Rizla papers are outrageously priced these days as well.... :lol:

I've been using www.soundunlimited.co.uk, I just checked, they're prices have shot up too :(

Nearly 33% in less than 12 months!!!  :o

A set of ten EXL115 sets will still be a few quid cheaper than stringsdirect, though. The D'addario 10 set pack (which stringsdirect don't seem to do?) is £42.00 at the moment, and it fits through a letter box :D (so no post office redelivery @rsery!). A similar deal at stringsdirect is £44.90 for ten, and I'm guessing they'll be individual sets?

I'm also well taken by the soundunlimited service - their local post office messed up on one of my early orders, and we had to pay an excess £2 postage at our end. I dropped soundunlimited an email just to let them know they might have a problem. They refunded my card within minutes, no question asked or any evidence required, and offered me a free set of strings for my trouble... :D  I'm hooked, I buy all my strings from them, electric, accoustic, reso, bass... really fast turn round.

EDIT: Just had a look at hotroxuk - they're a few quid cheaper again... (they can't spell "gauge" though! :D)
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Re: string price
« Reply #12 on: June 23, 2009, 01:16:24 PM »
Soundunlimited have the rotosounds in at £5.01, FARK me that nearly £2 per set MORE expensive than HotRox!
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Re: string price
« Reply #13 on: June 23, 2009, 01:19:00 PM »
Quote from: Pete24v on June 23, 2009, 01:16:24 PM
Soundunlimited have the rotosounds in at £5.01, FARK me that nearly £2 per set MORE expensive than HotRox!

Yeah that scared me too!

Luckily I don't use rotosound :lol:
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Re: string price
« Reply #14 on: June 23, 2009, 06:44:49 PM »
I've stuck with Dr Ducks for the last few years.  I get 'em in boxes of 12 from the states off ebay:

http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/Ducks-Guitar-Supply-Bonanza__W0QQ_armrsZ1
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