Friday, December 26, 2008

DR: Extra Stringlife


DR's Extra Stringlife is a fluid-based polymer coating which acts as a blanket for your strings, acting against the elements, to promote your string's 'life' so to speak.

It's not cheap, $16 per bottle (the size of an average string cleaning fluid) but it lasted me more than half a year.

Does it work? Yes, it helps prolong that fresh, out-of-the-pack feel provided you wipe your strings down after each play.

Do strings rust? The coating itself has its useful life, once it wears out, strings deteriorate like they always do.

So why buy it? If you wish for your strings to last a little longer, more importantly, if you want that freshness to last a little longer, it's quite worth the asking price. Which would you endure:
  • $16 for a bottle of string protection fluid (which you can re-use),
  • or $18 for a fresh set of coated strings each time?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

where did you get it from?

and just curious.. which is better? fastfret or DR extra stringlife?

subversion.sg said...

got it rom Davis.

there's no better, it's what you prefer, really...

i have issues with the Fast Fret: http://theguitaraddict.blogspot.com/2008/12/ghs-fast-fret.html

...it might work for you though.

Anonymous said...

Hi sub, thanks for all the good advice, really appreciate coming here everyday for the good advice..

subversion.sg said...

thanks for reading, my friend :-)

Anonymous said...

well, at first i also had the same experience from fast fret until i realised that the cloth was also used to clean the extra 'so-called' wax hahah

but i guess i should also try the DR:extra stringlife

thanks for you advise (:

subversion.sg said...

while we have issues with some products, we must keep in mind that they might work for others- the reason they are still kept in production.

i'm just here to share, give fair disclosure to everyone concerning possible setbacks so it's fair warning. i don't mean to put down any item by virtue of personal dislikes. if we don't have a use for a certain item, we look for others- we move on :-)