Martin SP treble strings: are they available singly?

[Crazyquilt]

For many years I was a dyed-in-the-wool Pearse 80/20 fan, but about six months ago, I switched over to Martin SP phosphor bronze. Unfortunately, I have experienced fairly consistent breakage of the high E, .012" string: four times in the last three months, on two different guitars. Because I'm particular, I like to replace the string with an exact duplicate, so that I won't have one bronze and one steel treble string. I've hunted all over for a source of Martin SP singles, but can only find the wrapped strings. Is anyone aware of a source for the bronzed trebles?

[stephenT]

Martin won't sell individual strings. I've called Martin customer service and they've replaced the whole pack for a single string,.. really not ideal but that's what they'll do.

[Oldguy64]

I realize that Martin makes very economical strings, but imho if you've broken four E-strings...sounds like a good reason to go back to John Pearse.

If that isn't an option, Strings and Beyond sells singles.
I went over and looked before posting.
For the gauges you want, it seems your choice is Elixir and Elixir.
And they are $1.50 a string.

Another random thought just hit me.
You might have a problem at the nut or the string post if you are consistently snapping The same string. Particularly if it's snapping at the same place.

[tomiv9]

I think juststrings sells single martin strings

[MikeL]

In the UK strings direct.com also sell individual SP strings.

But I use 80/20 SP and I am surprised you can break them - they are supposed to be stronger and I've never broken any brand of string in at least 20 years. I think maybe you have an issue at the nut?

[Crazyquilt]

I never break strings. And these have consistently been at the ball end. The most recent was this morning the first time I tried to bring the string up to pitch. That's just not normal, and I've never had a brand of strings with this consistency of trouble. I like trying different strings, so I've used many varieties in 30 years. Juststrings seems to only carry the wrapped strings, not the trebles.

[Crazyquilt]

Well, I just got a reply from Jim Clark at JustStrings:

I’m afraid the CF Martin no longer offers single strings. You can get the same type of bronze plated steel strings with the GHS Laurence Juber bronze plated steel strings. http://www.juststrings.com/laurencej...lestrings.html

Any of the Thomastik Infeld plain steel strings are bronze plated: http://www.juststrings.com/plainstee...lestrings.html

I just ordered a half dozen .012" and (just in case) .016" GHS strings.

Case closed!