Nickel Strings

[HHP]

Anybody ever seen how pure nickel strings compare to bronze in terms of tension? I've seen charts for Monel tension, but never any for true nickel strings. I assume they are a little less tension due to lower mass for the same gauges.

[TBman]

Let's make a list of pure nickels and then research. I know of John Pearse nickels, 960L lights.

[Archsas]

Everything I've seen indicates they should be lower tension that the bronze (or even Monel) alloys. Pure nickel strings are also considered to be lower tension than nickel alloy electric strings, as well.

[zombywoof]

Nickel strings are lighter than bronze so yes they exert less tension. You also, however, have to look at the core. Strings wound on a round core exert less tension than those wound on a hex core.

I use Newtone Masterclass Nickel strings.

[vindibona1]

There are pure nickels strings for acoustics?

I use pure nickel strings almost exclusively on my electrics now. The best ones I've found are the Gibson Vintage Reissue Pure nickel. GVRPN 10's feel at least 1/2 gauge lighter, sound incredible and last a very long time.

[Pitar]

http://daddario.com/DADProductDetail...6-83b73879c703

D'Addario's chart has total tension under the right column for their nickel sets. I never knew the advertised nickel sets were solid nickel. I thought they were simply plated wound strings to reduce the effects of corrosion.

[Archsas]

Originally Posted by vindibona1

There are pure nickels strings for acoustics?
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John Pearse and Newtone make sets they market for acoustic, I'm not sure if anyone else does. But I doubt that there's anything acoustic-specific about them; as long as a string is wrapped in something that entourages the right kind of resonance (pure nickel or Monel), it should work on an acoustic guitar. I've heard reports of people using "electric" pure nickel sets without issue on acoustic guitars, and I recently bought a set of DR Pure Blues to experiment with.

Originally Posted by Pitar

http://daddario.com/DADProductDetail...6-83b73879c703

D'Addario's chart has total tension under the right column for their nickel sets. I never knew the advertised nickel sets were solid nickel. I thought they were simply plated wound strings to reduce the effects of corrosion.

The strings in your link are nickel plated. D'Addario does make pure nickel strings, as can be seen here:

http://daddario.com/DADProductFamily...768&familyid=4

Interesting enough, their charts seem to indicate that the pure nickel sets have slightly more tension than the plated sets, which I wasn't expecting. I'd always heard pure nickel has less tension, but maybe that's because many pure nickel strings use round cores, which do lead to lower tension.