Krivo Django Bucker?

klaatu

Bones wrote:

Hmmm, I wounder how 'silk and steel' would work. What material do they make the windings out of the silk and steel?

D'Addario: "Silk & Steel strings couple silverplated copper wrap wire with silk for easy fingering and a mellow tone. "
GHS are the same.
John Pearse makes his with phosphor bronze wraps.
Martin site doesn't say.

rafapak

klaatu wrote:

constantine wrote:

good point klaatu, Also I bet there would be a sound difference with strings i.e., round wounds on a jazz box vs argies on a selmer.

Possibly, although the Benedetto sounds surprisingly good with bronze strings. As you probably know, pickups set up for nickel or steel wound strings usually sound terrible with bronze, because the bronze is nonmagnetic - the high E & B will jump out, way louder than the others. That's one reason for adjustable polepieces. The Benedetto is claimed to work for both, and it actually does. The bronze strings don't pick up quite as well as nickel, but the difference is small compared to most pickups. So maybe Argies would work. Unfortunately, I have no plans to put Argies on my archtop, so I can't help you there.

what are ' pole pieces'?

I also came across term' strings clearence' in the context of installing krivo pickup. What does ' string clearance mean in this context?