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Anonymous
2025-09-04 18:14:52
These strings are similar to the monel strings Toney Rice used. Nickel strings. They are just sulked. Really are warm! No bright overtones. You can hear the actual voice of the guitar. The 11.5 - 47 tension, are so easy to play. Far more easy on left hand. Especially with a low action. Try them out! You won’t be sorry. Try them with a Dawg style pick. Phenomenal tone!
Robert L. Kluttz Jr.
2025-08-21 13:42:08
My Martin guitar, which I recently purchased, came with 54/12 gauge strings! I knew I would remove them, so I ordered Martin 47/11.5 strings! That solved my playability problem! The strings sound beautiful, bright and articulate!! And I can now play for hours without finger pain!! Very good strings!!!
Harold
2025-08-07 19:09:25
The 10% in sheer volume you will loose by installing these (or any lighter strings) is more than overcome by ease of playing you’ve never experienced until you put silk and steels on your acoustic. And I like the tone better also. Unless you just have to play every weekend outside in a large band and cannot be heard, dump your steel strings and try these once. Your left hand will reward you with more hours of playing without sore fingertips steel strings will leave. You do have more stretch in time when they are new, so more tuning is required until they stretch in good. They will last longer than steel strings also. I do not observe any more or less string breakage either way, steel or silk and steel, but I rarely break one.
JT123
2025-08-04 17:03:49
I've had these on my Breedlove Stage Concert acoustic for several days now. I have used Elixir and D'Addarrio mostly, but those were 13's and 12's and just tough to play on. I use 9.5's on my electrics, so I thought hey I wonder if there's an 11.5 gauge for acoustic... These were the only ones I've found so far.I couldn't find an answer before they arrived but wanted to share they are indeed steel strings (I mostly had concerns about the makeup of the B and high E), so the silk part is either at the ball end and/or part of an inner wrap on the wound strings. Also, I believe the gentleman that posted a video here saying these are horrible don't buy them possibly had his high E and G tuned an octave too low or something - it didn't sound quite right in the clip nor anything like mine did when I got it tuned up proper.Nice warm tone in my opinion. Quite a looser feel compared to the other brands/gauges I've tried so far. I can definitely do a full step bend on acoustic now when tuned to standard pitch. But I also sanded about 1/16th of an inch off my saddle when I changed to these so I'm not entirely sure how much of the change was doing that versus the strings themselves. 1/16th is not that much though.First impression, these strings may be my new personal choice for my acoustic. I'll update the review if something goes haywire later.
William L.
2025-08-03 17:40:44
Ordered 2 packs of Silk & Steel, and got only one pack. The second set turned out to be 12 gauge 80/20. Love the Silk & Steel for a nice warm, mellow balance. Don’t let that one video fool you though, the guy just doesn’t know how to properly set up his guitar.
PiperFlyer
2025-06-23 16:45:21
For Dreadnoughts and other large body guitars, I agree with other reviewers, these strings are easy on the fingers but overly bright and lack body and volume of heavier strings. Now, put them on a small body guitar and it's completely different kettle of fish, as they say. I have a couple of small body guitars and I've always been frustrated with the boominess of the low E, A and D strings. As you know, if you have one, the short scale means you need thicker strings to maintain tension. The problem with this is that the lower wound strings can sound boomy as they overdrive the small spruce or mahogany top. To solve this, I went to StingJoy and bought a $20 set of custom 12-47s. It worked! To my ears, my Dreadnaught Junior and McPherson Touring guitars sounded so much more balanced while maintaining tension top to bottom. Now, to save money, I have turned to Martin MA130 Silk and Steel strings. I am willing to give up a bit of tone to save $13 per set. If you have a small body guitar, you should test these affordable strings and see if you agree with me.
BillArch2
2025-06-09 15:16:23
Much easier on my arthritic fingers, esp on days I don't think my fingers really want to play, but I want to anyway. Have gotten back to playing almost daily, after having thought I was finished. The strings don't feel like they require nearly the force to fret as phosphor bronze which are what I previously played nearly exclusively. As a finger picker, I should have tried these years ago, but was happy with the sound I knew. To compare, I think these sound slightly warmer, but not even half way to sounding like nylon on the warmth vs bright scale. The top two strings, B and e, are identical to phosphor bronze but the wraps in silk begin on the G string and feel less hard under my finger tips, which is I'm sure a big part of why they feel easier to fret. Whatever the real reason for the feel, I'm sold, and highly recommend trying a set even if you use a flat pick or finger picks, esp if you're old and arthritic, or a regular finger picker.
CMcG
2025-05-30 21:25:26
I typically run 80/20 bronze 12s on my Martin 00 14 fret. They're my go to. To switch it up, I tried these Martin MA130 Silk and Steel. I had to slacken the truss rod about 1/4 turn to maintain the action where I like it. They aren't as loud as the 80/20 lights, but they still sound quite robust and well balanced, while being easier to play.Tone: They push the guitar toward the classical end of the spectrum in sound and feel-especially the wound strings. They also manage good resonance and decent sustain while cutting back the sympathetic harmonics between strings.Feel: Responsive and easier to play, of course, with over 40#s less tension than I'm use to with the 80/20 lights.
AbyJohn
2025-05-14 14:51:20
Not as good as elixr, but does the job well. ðŸ‘ðŸ»
アマゾン
2025-04-16 16:50:23
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Zak
2025-03-18 15:55:33
Very nice and easy to play
Marcus Bastos de Oliveira.
2025-03-05 10:36:50
Ainda não instalei o encordoamento que chegou hoje (13-11-2023). Um pouco caro e por isso estou dando 4 estrelas. O preço caiu 10 Reais depois que comprei. Enfim… Meu jogo de cordas atual (D'addario bronze 0.010 - 0.047) ainda deve durar uns dois meses… E antes de trocar pelo encordoamento Martin, preciso realizar pequenos ajustes onde os pinos são fixados no cavalete (aguardando as ferramentas de luthieria e os pinos novos) e levÃssimo ajuste no rastilho. Meu violão é novo, um Giannini Performance GTG-36S baby. Estou bem satisfeito com o violãozinho, que "fala" como gente grande. Mas não dá pra usar as cordas da Giannini. Já experimentei alguns modelos da Giannini em outro violão e elas não são boas. Devo fazer todos os ajustes ainda com o encordoamento atual, depois instalarei as Martins. Não é fácil segurar a ansiedade pra trocar. Assim que eu realizar a troca, eu atualizarei esta avaliação. Depois ainda vou testar um encordoamento Rotosound super bronze (que é phosphor bronze) que também tem uma tensão semelhante à do Martin. As Rotosound devem ser testadas daqui uns 6 meses… Violão novo precisa ser testado até encontrar o encordoamento que case melhor com ele.
Debbie-Lyn
2025-02-09 13:33:00
I bought these in march (it's now late October and the high e has just broke) and they've been great. They have a beautiful, clear, warm sound. They're very durable, I play a mix of fingerstyle and regular, and a lot of the songs I play are very rough on strings, but they survived through everything until now! They're really great on my fingertips too, a lot less painful after playing for hours straight. They hold their tuning really well too and have been fine being tuned up and down too! I'm really impressed and will definitely be getting again :)
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