Sloppy
workmanship, poor tooling, and cheap materials are apparent
in this unrefined ball-end. Made overseas, this is how the ball-end
looked, brand new, out of the package. This was part
of a free set of strings a major guitar retailer was
giving away.
This
string is brand new, and demonstrates another ball-end
loop with poor workmanship. This
is a string that was made in the USA. Notice the excess string winding
resting against the ball-end. This is perhaps one of
the worst types of errors in terminating
the outer winding.
This
ball-end is from a string set made in China. It is a
low grade brass that allows for ultra low cost strings.
Although this particular string had other
issues, the twist in the loop is fairly tight and well
done. This makes it friendly to bridges with narrow
string channels.
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String Frequency
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Sloppy
workmanship, poor tooling, and cheap materials are apparent
in this unrefined ball-end. Made overseas, this is how the ball-end
looked, brand new, out of the package. This was part
of a free set of strings a major guitar retailer was
giving away. 
This
string is brand new, and demonstrates another ball-end
loop with poor workmanship. This
is a string that was made in the USA. Notice the excess string winding
resting against the ball-end. This is perhaps one of
the worst types of errors in terminating
the outer winding. 
This
ball-end is from a string set made in China. It is a
low grade brass that allows for ultra low cost strings.
Although this particular string had other
issues, the twist in the loop is fairly tight and well
done. This makes it friendly to bridges with narrow
string channels.
