Elixir Strings

Elixir Strings produces a wide range of premium guitar strings with a coated design to ensure your strings last longer and sound great.

Elixir Strings was kick-started in 1997, inspired by the development of push-pull cables that W.L. Gore & Associates created for Disney animatronics in the mid-nineties. The engineers needed strong, smooth cabling and were looking at guitar string design to make them thinner and lower friction. Once the cabling was developed, it became a natural step to evolve this process into creating guitar strings.

As is well known amongst electric guitar and acoustic guitar players, strings degrade over time as they react to sweat and dirt transferred over from your fingers, eventually turning them from bright and resonant to dull and muted sounding. Elixir decided this happened all too quickly, with some guitarists having to change strings as frequently as after every gig. They began to develop tubing made of thin polymer to cover the string that wouldn’t affect the resonance and tone.

Now Elixir makes strings for a massive range of string instruments including acoustic and electric guitar, bass, banjo and mandolin. These all fall into distinct categories dependent on the level of coating and the material used; the POLYWEB, the ultra-thin NANOWEB, and the nearly invisible OPTIWEB. Each produces a different tone and feel, allowing you to play for longer without compromising on performance and playability.

POLYWEB were the first of Elixirs coated strings and offer a slicker, faster feel.

NANOWEB are coated with a thinner coating and provide a smoother feel.

OPTIWEB is the thinnest coating, ensuring the strings feel the most natural with a playable grip to them.

It’s no wonder Elixir are the choice of many big artists including Miranda Lambert, Marcus King, Jade Bird and Chris Woods.