In the case of ernie ball slinky a popular string brand the unwound strings are made from a steel allow plated with a tin allow.
Ernie ball m steel fret wear.
Ernie ball m steel electric guitar strings are made of a patented super cobalt alloy wrapped around a maraging steel hex core wire producing a richer and fuller tone with a powerful low end response.
Our strings have been played on many of the best selling albums of all time and are used by some of history s greatest musicians including paul mccartney eric clapton jimmy page slash the rolling stones.
They re nickel plated steel over mandolin wire whatever that is so i don t know if the nickel plating wears down to the steel quickly or if the steel wrap is enough to make a different on ss frets.
No disrespect folks but is that down to technique i mean some people have a different touch etc when playing.
However i was reading that the ss frets will still wear fast if you re using steel strings.
And i realized i m using blue steel strings.
I know that the m steel are supposed to be the better quality string since it uses a military grade maraging steel hex core wire a higher quality co.
Good ones and bad ones.
M steel plain electric guitar strings are comprised of a specially tempered steel for maximum fatigue resistance.
I m using nyxl s at the moment with emg s and like them alot have a set of ernie ball cobalt strings but not tried them.
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