{"id":739,"date":"2012-04-10T16:59:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T16:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=739"},"modified":"2012-04-10T17:29:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T17:29:12","slug":"gunk-free-strings-from-elixir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/gunk-free-strings-from-elixir.html","title":{"rendered":"Gunk-free strings from Elixir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/gunk-free-strings-from-elixir.html\/attachment\/elixir_nanoweb_light_bass_strings__63802_zoom\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-766\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-766\" title=\"Elixir_Nanoweb_Light_Bass_Strings__63802_zoom\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Elixir_Nanoweb_Light_Bass_Strings__63802_zoom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Elixir_Nanoweb_Light_Bass_Strings__63802_zoom.jpg 591w, https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Elixir_Nanoweb_Light_Bass_Strings__63802_zoom-459x300.jpg 459w, https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Elixir_Nanoweb_Light_Bass_Strings__63802_zoom-229x150.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>String gunk is bad news. Because it gets in your strings&#8217; winding,\u00a0stifles\u00a0the vibration, and wrecks your tone, but also because it&#8217;s just gross.<\/p>\n<p>After a good amount of time playing your strings the contact from your fingers leaves oils, dead skin, and other generally not good stuff building up in the nooks and crannies of your strings and creating the dreaded string gunk.<\/p>\n<p>With Elixir strings and their patented ultra-thin\u00a0NANOWEB\u00ae polymer coating, nasty tone-killing string gunk can become a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_741\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-741\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/gunk-free-strings-from-elixir.html\/attachment\/coated15hrsplay\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-741\"><img class=\" wp-image-741    \" title=\"coated15hrsplay\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coated15hrsplay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coated15hrsplay.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coated15hrsplay-236x150.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exilir strings after 15 hours of playing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_740\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-740\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/gunk-free-strings-from-elixir.html\/attachment\/uncoated15hrsplay\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-740\"><img class=\" wp-image-740    \" title=\"uncoated15hrsplay\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/uncoated15hrsplay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/uncoated15hrsplay.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/uncoated15hrsplay-236x150.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uncoated strings after 15 hours of playing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By keeping your strings gunk-free it you&#8217;ll save yourself the cost of more frequent replacements, as well as the hassle and stress on your bass of re-stringing.<\/p>\n<p>And since the coating is ultra-thin, you get the protection of a coated string while maintaining the great feel and tone of your strings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/elixir-strings.htm\">Exilir Nanoweb Bass Strings are available for order at Best Bass Gear today with 4-string packs starting at $35.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Elixir strings and their patented ultra-thin NANOWEB\u00ae polymer coating, nasty tone-killing string gunk can become a thing of the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,13,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}