Thomastik Strings for Electric Guitar Jazz Swing Series Nickel Flat Wound Set JS112 Medium Light .012-.050w

Just about everyone I know, non-guitarists included, think I have a brand new guitar! The sound is far superior, which adds to my own confidence in ability to play well. Love these strings! Makes me want to play even more! ;)

These strings are for the archtop jazz guitar, and used as such, they have no equal. From the plated plain steel to the pure nickel windings on a round core, the quality of manufacture, quality control, precision of intonation, and of course, the rich full sound, both acoustic and amplified, is second to none. Expensive, well, yes, although the Amazon price is pretty good, but you really do get what you pay for. Real quality always costs that bit more.

Glad I listened

Great jazz tone on my Ibanez AS73

The best

These strings sound great and feel nice to play. I bought these for my cheap Jazz hollow body, I normally use 9's in my electrics and 10's in my acoustics so I was worried that using 12's would be too much of a jump in gauge, but they're not, they feel nice and slinky to the touch and sound and feel so much nicer and warmer than the roundwounds that were on it. It's a joy to play acoustically/unplugged, inspiring even, I want to play it finger style all the time which I don't even do on my acoustics.The only issues I have (apart from cost - but then you get what you pay for) is the red thread wound around the ends. It looks cool but is only on the wound strings so at the same time looks odd (purely aesthetic) the wound strings are silver and the unwound are gold which also looks a bit odd, but the biggest problem is that because of the red thread the 2 thickest strings will not fit into the holes of my machine heads (Wilkinson EZ-Lock) so I had to enlarge the holes. Had I gone for a heavier gauge I would have had to enlarge 3 pairs of tuning peg holes and by quite a lot for the thickest string which would leave me worrying about the strength of the post. This may not be an issue with other machine heads but for my newly fitted Wilkinson EZ-Locks it most definitely was. Is that an issue with the strings being too thick or the holes being too small? Without that problem they are worthy of more than the 4 out of 5 stars given, in fact they'd be an 11 out of 10!

Nicest guitar strings to actually play that I have used.Maybe not quite as resonant as a round-wound set of the same size, but a decent acoustic tone and volume nonetheless (they are on an Eastman AR 403CE). Amped, they sound great.As far as longevity goes, ask me in a year's time...Update (rather later) - still going strong, no real deterioration in sound, and as nice to play as ever.Definitely worth the price of entry.

For stability and intonation these strings are simply the best for Jazz.