SS6100 Fretwire any good?

[Ace Flibble]

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All I know is I've got exactly ten guitars in this room right now, one of which has stainless frets and nine which don't. The nine which don't, I'm buggered if I can remember the last time any of them broke a string. Certainly never in the last year. The one that does, I think I've had breaks four or five times over the last six months, all of which have happened along the playing length of the string and not at the typical stress points of the nut, tuners or bridge. If any guitar was going to break strings, you'd think it'd be the knackered Kramer with the rusty Floyd Rose that isn't set up properly, not the pristine-looking, tune-o custom build. There's really only one explanation for the frequency and position of my breaks. When two metals meet with friction the softer one is going to take a battering.

As I've said, what, three times now, I can see and feel a lot of benefits to stainless frets. But nothing - nothing - is perfect for every person in every situation at every time. It's simply silly and ridiculous to imply, as you're doing, that any given material, feature or other specification is objectively and factually superior than all alternatives.

Also, it's 'propter', and 'therefore', 'consequently' or even 'following' would be a more appropriate translation than 'then'. If you insist on being condescending then try Spanish, or German, or Dutch; I don't know any of those.

 

[Strat Avenger]

'No way in Hell do SS frets cause premature string breakage.

 

[Jumble Jumble]

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All I know is I've got exactly ten guitars in this room right now, one of which has stainless frets and nine which don't. The nine which don't, I'm buggered if I can remember the last time any of them broke a string. Certainly never in the last year. The one that does, I think I've had breaks four or five times over the last six months, all of which have happened along the playing length of the string and not at the typical stress points of the nut, tuners or bridge. If any guitar was going to break strings, you'd think it'd be the knackered Kramer with the rusty Floyd Rose that isn't set up properly, not the pristine-looking, tune-o custom build. There's really only one explanation for the frequency and position of my breaks. When two metals meet with friction the softer one is going to take a battering.

As I've said, what, three times now, I can see and feel a lot of benefits to stainless frets. But nothing - nothing - is perfect for every person in every situation at every time. It's simply silly and ridiculous to imply, as you're doing, that any given material, feature or other specification is objectively and factually superior than all alternatives.

Also, it's 'propter', and 'therefore', 'consequently' or even 'following' would be a more appropriate translation than 'then'. If you insist on being condescending then try Spanish, or German, or Dutch; I don't know any of those.

The "then" was a translation of "ergo", not "propter". He translated that to "because of" which I would consider just as good as "consequently".

 

[slowhandy]

To all thanks for the advice!  I've definitely decided to go with the stainless but have broadened my range of choices to include the 6115s as well as the 6100s. Decisions...Decisions...

 

[Patrick from Davis]

Ace, where do the strings break?  I tend to let strings stay on my guitars forever as well.  I have a set of strings on my old Fender Bass that are probably getting old enough to legally drink.  Not because I like the sound, I am just lazy, or more to the point, I really don't like the string changing process.  I don't seem to break any more or less strings due to the fret material.  More often than not they break at the saddle of the bridge.  I am curious more than anything, cause it hasn't happened to me.  I hate to recommend the wrong thing to anyone, and am curious why yours seems to be the outlier in the group.  I don't know what steel or stainless that they use for the strings or the frets, but the hardness of steel can be quite a bit harder than stainless.  That being said, the difference between the two is not nearly as great as between nickle brass and steel.
Patrick