Road Toad Pahoehoe U•BASS® Strings

These are the same excellent strings that came on my UBass originally. Same great sound quality.

Bought these for our Hadean U-bass. These are thicker than the aquila strings that came with it, so they don't fit into the holes in the tuning pegs. You'll have to stretch the bujezus out of them, pull it through the slot and tuck the end under while you turn the pegs. Stretch them as far as you can because it'll still need lots of turns to get into tune! It's a wrestling match, but it does get the job done and you end up with much slicker, less sloppy, easier to play strings! Worth the effort!

Excellent sound quality and finger feel.

These are perfect for my ubass. I prefer these to the wrapped ones that came on my ubass model. They are a bit short when you start to install them but stretch so much that they wind up being too long. My suggestion is to install them (prestretch if necessary) then tune your instrument every day for a week or two then release them and cut them off a bit. You will need to retune every day for several weeks until stretching is complete.

These replaced the white nylgut strings that came with the base uke I bought on Amazon that just looked weird and felt cheap. Good: Looks great. Feels a little more comfortable than the white ones. Sounds a bit warmer. Bad: Installation was tricky because the strings are slippery and quite a bit more stretchy than the ones they replaced. I had to wind them several times to bring them up to tune. I tune them up every time I play and they seem to have stretched a bit. Hopefully this becomes less of an issue once the strings are done stretching. Overall they feel great and I would buy again, but take some tweaking.

I didn't realize how worn the old strings really were. Upon close inspection I could see that they were stretched and bruised. Immediately upon installing the new set, the U-Bass sound improved and it was easier to play also. Change your strings when you see little deformities on them.

I'm giving this item 5 stars as it is exactly what it says it is and I'm sure does exactly what it says it does...HOWEVER, if you're looking for Pahoehoe strings for an Ashbory bass, these are not them. You want the Light version of these strings for Ashbory bass. So far the Low Tension version of these strings are my favorite Ashbory bass strings. You'll find them with a google search easily enough. FYI I was able to return these to Sam Ash for the cost of shipping, thank you!

Here they are, the right strings for the U-Bass. There are other varieties promising different properties, but these are essentially an exact replacement set for the strings the U-Bass comes with originally. Price was right, and Sam Ashe delivered well-packed and in record time (I ordered the strings when I ordered the instrument, and I got the strings a full week before the bass).