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Labella flats string dice things. Leave on?


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Hi,

Just got my first set of labella low tension flats and they have little numbered cubes on each string at the ball end.

A quick google brought up some suggestions from the talkbass forum that you take these off, however when I put them in the ferrule and apply tension the cubes allow the string to rotate freely. When I take them off they don’t rotate easily, so I’m thinking that actually leaving them on may help prevent the strings getting twisted when I wind them onto the tuning pegs.

Any thoughts on this?

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26 minutes ago, bassbiscuits said:

Daft question alert - but how do you wind the strings then? I've always wound them by hand. Am i doing it wrong?

The only way you should wind the string on is by turning the tuning key.  Don't loop the string manually around the peg a few times first.

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28 minutes ago, jrixn1 said:

The only way you should wind the string on is by turning the tuning key.  Don't loop the string manually around the peg a few times first.

Ahh - yes sorry I'm with you now. I understand.

If i'm re-using strings on that have already been on before, and therefore are already curled up at the headstock end, i try to keep the length of them slack so they can rotate freely in the bridge holes right up until they get tightened up, for that reason.

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