Nickel-wound Steel Electric Guitar Strings

D'Adarrio's XL Nickel Wound electric guitarstrings, their most popular string, gives your guitar a bright anddetailed sound with spot-on intonation. We know that choosing theperfect string is vital to a musician's sound. The hexagonal highcarbon steel core is wrapped with nickel-plated steel for along-lasting string that's ready to tackle any style of music.

D'Addario - Making strings for over 300years

Behind every set of D'Addario strings are overthree centuries of fine craftsmanship. The D'Addario family traditionbegan in the tiny town of Salle, Italy in 1680 where they made assortedinstrument strings for over two hundred years before relocating to NewYork in 1905. As the modern string making industry began to develop,the D'Addario family emerged as innovators by designing the windingmachine most string makers still use today. And while their techniqueshave modernized, the pride that goes into each set of strings datesback to the D'Addario family's earliest roots.

D'Addario EXL140-8 Nickel-wound 8-stringElectric Guitar Strings Features at a Glance:

• Light Top/Heavy Bottom Gauge
• Optimized for 8-string electrics tuned F#, B,E, A, D, G, B, E
• .010, .013 .017, .030, .042, .054, .064, .074
• Round-wound with nickel-plated steel fordistinctive bright tone

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