GHS Boomers GB LXL 10-38

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String Set for Electric Guitar

String gauges: .010, .013, .015, .026, .032, .038
Nickel-plated
Roundwound
Round core
Made in the USA

Available since June 2015
Item number 365843
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
String gauge 010 - 038
Strength of the strings 0,010" – 0,038"
Material Nickel Plated Steel
G-String Wound No

6,90 €

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The best performance/price ratio for 10-38 strings.

fommof 11.12.2019

I've been using 10-38 strings on all my electric guitars the last 15 years and I use these for standard D tunning (one tone lower).

Over all these years I've try and been using also Fenders (both bullets and ball ended) and Dean Markleys (when they were available) and as far as the sound, longevity and price is concerned, the GHS are my strings to go.

The sound is balanced (not super bright or muffled) and while they will not last forever (no string will anyway) they will last for a long time before they get extremely tarnished and dull.

One star off because over these years and after more than 50 sets used, there have been quite a few sets that came kinda tarnished out of the box (especially the G string). Not a real problem in real life (you can remove some of the "rust" with #0000 steel wool) but provided that the strings are packed in an -in theory- air sealed package, is a little strange.

One thing to keep in mind: the GHS 10-38 Boomers come (or used to come at some point) in three different flavors in terms of packaging: 1) Orange unsealed package with individual strings unsealed, 2) Black sealed package with individual strings unsealed and 3) the so called Nitro package (per GHS themselved) which is black sealed package with the individual strings sealed. I had all these different versions and the "rust" issue was only with the first two "flavors". After contacting the GHS company they replaced all the problematic sets and let me know about the Nitro package so make sure you buy those (black sealed package, and every string inside the package is sealed as well).

Still, for the sound/performance/price these are hard to beat.

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Fabulous!

Mountainhop 12.02.2022

I used to be a die-hard buyer of Fender and D’Addario strings.

Untiil I found these here LXL Jimi Wise strings and put them on almost all my guitars, and I can assure you that you need a lot of sets, considerimg my giant collection tele’s, strats, juniors, doublecuts, hollowbodies and jazzy style guitars.

Every time, so without any exceptiom, the guitar seems to become more alive after putting on these beautiful clear and resonant strings.

As Amanda Lear once said: ‘ Follow me”.
You will not be disappointed.

Have a good one, and Thomann thanx agaim for keeping up your deliveries throughout the COVID pandemic. My compliments!

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You don't know what you're missing!

s9v9f 14.10.2017

Even if you're not a fan of light gauge strings, you should try them at least once. I bought a set to try it out in one of my Strats and I was amazed by how well balanced the sound was. They also last very long at least from experience. Most guitar string sets are "G heavy" but here you have a very well balanced sound. Oh and by the way for those of you who do not know it, Jimi Hendrix's preferred set was a "10-38" the so-called "Rock N' Roll" set back in the day... 'Nuff said...

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my strat came alive with these strings

ftruyts 27.08.2019

I can't recommend this string set enough. I will never put anything else on my strat. I recommend it for anyone who like me bends a lot. It really opens up a new universe of bending on the wound strings, you can effortlessly bend up 3 steps on any of those. It also sounds incredibly balanced, I mean there IS a reason why hendrix' sound engineer came up with this string set.

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