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Post subject: La Bella original '54 flatwounds safe for my PBasses?
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 11:00 pm
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I have an American Vintage '62 reissue and a blue flower bass japanese.

At such a hi gauge (110) are these safe for them?
I have been hearing some hoopla about this around here but can't seem to find the skinny among all the topics. Something about wrecked necks.

I am looking to try a heavier set than my typical 50-105 sets and was wondering how the original '54 or Deep Talkin La Bellas are in the 110 sets. Thanks.


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Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 3:38 am
I would think they would be ok. I've used 110 in the Fender 110TW, just not in a flat.


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Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:00 am
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This sounds like a question for Brotherdave.........


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Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:45 am
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If you have Fender with the graphite rod-reinforced necks (like an American Standard), it should be no problem. I would be careful of putting .110s on a MIM P-bass.

Also, you may have to widen the nut slots, and re-intonate. If you're not comfortable with working on the nut and truss rod, take it to a tech the first time.

I put a set of the LaBellas on my bass, they definitely thump, but the thicker strings started to crowd up the string spacing, and the tension was just a little too high for me. Not that it was hard to play, but the overall feel and resonance changes under such high tension. Personal preference, I guess. I went back to .105s.


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Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:19 pm
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Post subject: Great Strings
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 10:33 pm
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Hello. If the original package for these strings came in a red envelope that measures about 12" by 12", made by Labella, those are the same strings I, Jamerson, Joe Osborne and others used on most recording work. I used them on a 59 and 62 precision bass with no problem. If they don't work with the bass you have, find an old original P bass. That string with an older bass is the key to a great sound. You won't be doing a lot of todays' popping, but you will have a very unique sound compared to most of todays thin sounds. Later
Scott Edwards/LA bass player


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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 4:30 am
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We are talking about the highest tension bass strings around. My 71 Jazz neck TWISTED under the strain. Today's graphite reinforced necks are probably better prepared for it. I sold it for junk.

I love the way they sound though. Some players (Duck Dunn, James Jamerson) would not use anything else. I used them for about 3 years.

Legend ("Standing In The Shadows Of Motown" book and movie) says the neck on James Jamerson's REAL 62 P-Bass was so bowed that only he could play it because he had very powerful hands. Take a clue there.

The Labella 760M's do NOT do body through stringing well AT ALL (I swear that is true from my experience trying to use them for two years on my 68 Telecaster Bass which is the grandpappy of the Japanese Blue Flower, prior to the sticker being applied saying NOT to do to that.) Do NOT use the Labella 760M strings on body through basses. I kept breaking strings and was going broke using them on the body through set up.

The alternative I found that sounds very similar is the GHS PRECISION FLATWOUND 3050 regular set. They cost about half as much. Very similar sound and slightly lower tension. Yet they are not FLOPPY like the Thomastik-Infeld Jazz Flat JF344 set so many people rave about. The GHS Precision 3050 Regulars also work for body through stringing. Honest.

Also when switching to the larger gauge strings you need to either have a set of nut files, or have a tech or luthier who does do it for you. Else you will wind up with a piece of your nut broken off. Again, I say that from painful personal experience.


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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 12:41 am
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+1 on the GHS Precision Flats... i didn't use em before brotherdave introduced me to them... and they're on my main Jazz bass...

and for the TI Flats they go with my P bass..

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