Road Toad Pahoehoe U•BASS Strings (RT-BASS-4)

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

It's a very special strings. I love it. You have to be careful to put it on your Ubass. It has a unique sound. Like an acoustic bass. I recomend.

These are the original strings that ship with the Kala U-basses, and have a great smooth feel. I rated these as a 4 because they are VERY hard to install. The are short and have to be stretched through the tuners at tension since they are all shorter that the 21" scale length when not stretched. In the case of the D and G, you have to stretch them with a lot of force using a pair of vice grips (advice I got online) to pull them through the tuners prior to actually turning the tuner. If you don't do this you end up with too many windings around the tuner. It took me about 2 hours to string my bass!

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!

I used these babies to string up a Rogue Bari Uke (from Amazon) and a Belcat Pickup (Amazon again) to make a U-Bass and these strings are the only way to go! Great sound and fun to work with! These strings stretch like crazy ('specially the thinner ones) but eventually settle in...

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.

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!

I love them. My Oscar Schmidt bass came with white Aquila strings. They sounded great. But they were very sticky and hard to get up and down the neck because of that. These Pahoehoe strings give a great upright type bass sound and are easy to slide around on. The reason for the 4 stars is simple. These strings are amazingly stretchy and are difficult to string properly. Thanks to youtube i found a good way to do it. Being a rubber bass string there not that stable and fall out of tune quickly. After a week of playing and re-tuning the strings are really settling in nicely.After playing on them for awhile i can see why so many U-Bass players recommend these. Id purchase these again.