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Originally Posted by hotroad
Right now I have D'Addario Pure Steel strings on it, 13-52 and like it a lot. The tone is very acoustic as well as the more typical archtop jazz tone if I want it with different eq. The neck on this Peerless is set up by a very high end luthier who handles some famous jazz players guitars. Wow, is it easy to play and sounds awesome. So I will try Monels though and use only electric strings to make use of the floating humbucker. the Pure Steels react really well to this pickup.
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The Monels are ferromagnetic as well. Pure nickel is another nice choice for an archtop. The John Pearse ones are really good, and cheap. GHS also makes a set called "White Bronze," which again is ferromagnetic, but I haven't tried them.
Congrats on a cool guitar. The Peerless stuff in general is very high quality and represents a LOT of bang for the buck.