Strings Direct Blog

There’s little doubt that our planet is facing a climate crisis and nowadays there’s no shying away from doing your bit to help. This is especially true for businesses, with every industry having a key role to play in helping to become more eco-friendly and save our planet for generations to come. So where do our guitar strings fall into all of this? What can the brands do to help and what areas can they... read more.

Guitars equipped with tremolo systems can offer so many creative and tonal opportunities, however, they can often suffer from issues such as tuning instability and string breakage. A Bigsby style bridge is one particular vibrato system that poses numerous problems for many players. Unlike other tremolos/vibratos, Bigsbys aren’t designed for severe ‘dive-bomb’ style tremolo use instead they’re revered by many tone hounds for their subtle shimmering vibrato. Having a Bigsby installed on your guitar can... read more.

When you’ve just started playing the electric guitar the time will inevitably come when you need to change your strings. We’re well aware that if you’ve never bought a set of electric guitar strings before, the guitar string landscape can be very confusing. So many numbers, so many brands, information overload! It can have you running for the hills! But fear not, we’ve created this guide on which electric guitar strings are best for beginners... read more.

After months of beavering away, we recently announced the launch of our brand new ‘Custom Gauge Set Builder.' This brand new feature has been designed to allow our customer's the opportunity to create their very own set of strings where they can choose each individual gauge within their set. For many years, we’ve proudly stocked a large number of single strings from some of the worlds’ biggest string brands including D’Addario, Ernie Ball, Rotosound, Elixir... read more.