Stringjoy Broadways Heavy Bottom Light 10-52 Pure Nickel Electric Guitar Strings
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SKU: SJ-BR1052
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Product Description
Here's what Stringjoy say about the Broadways Heavy Bottom Light 10-52 Gauge Strings:
Some folks call this gauge “Skinny Top”, some call ’em “Light Top, others call ’em “Thin Top”. But everyone agrees, they’ve got one heck of a heavy bottom. Our Heavy Bottom Light Broadways are a particularly fun set because the added flexibility of the wound strings offsets the extra tension nicely, giving you a set that’s plenty powerful, but also plenty playable.
If you’ve ever played Pure Nickel strings before, these strings have even more nickel in them than the strings you’ve played in the past. That means more of that rich, full tonal character. It also means more flexibility, since the round core is thinner than it is in other sets. But these don’t sacrifice when it comes to strength or durability either, and they hold tune with the best of ’em.
Vintage Style strings
Much like the famed Nashville street from which these get their name, our Broadways are steeped in tradition, but have undergone a major facelift.
So, I purchased dozens of sets of strings from the 1950s and 1960s and took them apart to study the ratios and winding techniques used to make them. After researching as many strings as I could get my hands on, I went about carefully reproducing them in every way on our equipment, and finally strung up the first set on a guitar.
And guess what? They sounded terrible. None of that vintage warmth was present, they were super tinny—and stiff as all get out.
Turns out, there was no golden age of strings. Manufacturers back then used as thick of core wire as possible, and as thin of wrap wire as possible, in order to keep costs low (steel core is relatively cheap, but pure nickel wrap wire is super expensive). This lead to a stiff, thin sounding string.
So I went back to the drawing board and set out to make a set of strings that sounded and played the way I had expected from the vintage strings. This meant going the opposite direction—using a strong but thin steel core a ton of pure nickel wrap wire, and compressing the wrap wire with twice as much force as normal in order to get as much nickel as possible on each gauge.
And after another several months of testing, I landed on the perfect recipe and our Broadways were born. They have tons of warmth, but don’t sacrifice high-end presence. They’re super flexible, but hold tune like nobody’s business. Without a doubt, these are my favorite strings I have created thus far.
-Scott Marquart
President
Stringjoy, LLC