Fender Classic Core Nickel-Plated Steel Bullet End Electric Guitar Strings
Fender Classic Core electric strings go straight to the heart of classic tone for modern guitar. Designed with "vintage-spec" round core wire rather than the modern hexagonal type, Classic Core strings sound and feel perfectly seasoned as soon as you put them on your guitar. They deliver more expansive lows, softer highs and extra flexibility for expressive bends.Nickel-plated steel has the dynamic sound of steel and the smooth feel of nickel
Deliver more expansive lows, softer highs and extra flexibility for expressive bends
Designed with "vintage-spec" round core wire
Patented Bullet-end for rock solid tuning stability and increased sustain
With a choice of the following Gauges:
Light: .009, .011, .016, .024, .032, .042
Regular: .010, .013, .017, .026, .036, .046
Designed with “vintage-spec” round core wire rather than the modern hexagonal type, Classic Core strings sound and feel perfectly seasoned as soon as you put them on your guitar. They deliver more expansive lows, softer highs and extra flexibility for expressive bends.
Made in the U.S.A.
Fender strings have been around for a very, very long time, even preceding the birth of Strings Direct over 25 years ago. A staple of their string lineup’s lifetime has been the Original 150’s Pure Nickel range.
THE HISTORY OF ‘VINTAGE’ NICKEL
Most electric guitar sets are nickel, right? Well, yes… and no! You’ll see many electric string sets labeled as ‘Nickel Wound’ nowadays. However, today’s string sets are wound with a very different type of nickel wrap wire compared to those of yesteryear.
Back in the mid-’50s to late ’60s electric guitar string sets were almost exclusively wound using a pure nickel wrap wire and in some places you may have seen this referred to as ‘vintage nickel’.
Around the late ’60s, the cost of nickel shot up resulting in many string manufacturers making a concerted move towards using a nickel-plated steel wrap wire instead which is still commonly used in many of today’s most popular sets, including: D’Addario EXL, Rotosound, Ernie Ball Slinkys and many more. The decision to move to nickel-plated steel was not just driven by cost… the characteristics of the new nickel-plated steel wrap also lent itself to the tonal demands of the more modern player: a brighter, punchier sounding set of string.
That being said, many manufacturers still produce pure nickel strings in their string range, Fender being one of them. In fact, the pure nickel sets have been a consistent staple of Fender’s range.
THE SOUND OF FENDER
Pure nickel strings (to clarify, we’re talking about just the wound strings here) are known to sound smoother in comparison to today’s nickel-plated strings but these Fender 150’s are certainly not dull and there’s good projection from the plain strings too. They are warm yet provide just enough brightness without being harsh and we’d go as far to say that these Fender pure nickels are just a tad more sparkly-sounding when compared to some other brands’ pure nickel offerings… after all, Fender traditionally offers “sparkle”.
Even chicken picking or “popping” on a T-style guitar sounds cool so they’re definitely not lacking in the twang department. In fact, they’d comfortably suit a whole manner of playing styles, but I think they’re especially great for rock, blues, country and rockabilly.
Pure nickel strings are also renowned for a consistent tone throughout their lifespan.
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