Any news on elixirs anti-rust?

[Cheesebuiscut]

Haven't seen anything on their site for a while, being hopelessly optimistic.

I've had the current set on my guitar for a while and the alternatives are eh... Wondering if they got their anti-rust strings back yet or if its even on the horizon.

[TheSixthWheel]

Are you saying that Elixir strings currently aren't available in anti-rust? Do you mean in your area or at all? As far as I'm aware, Elixir strings only make coated strings, which are therefor anti-rust. I'd lose my shit if I knew I couldn't get coated strings at my local.

[Cheesebuiscut]

Original plain steel strings available soon

They haven't been producing anti-rust strings for quite some time, unless your stores have been stocked / backlogged with antirust packages you'll notice all the new ones coming in no longer have the little anti-rust decal on the package and as you can guess the plain strings are not anti-rust.

This is my issue, since my sweat seems to corrode and rust up those plain strings in a day or two making a only low strings coated pack obsolete.

[TheSixthWheel]

Holy shit, that's horrible. I'd actually prefer they use uncoated wound strings and coated plain steel strings, due to that awful corrosion on the plain steels that make leads just feel like shit. If I'd have known, I'd have bought a couple of boxes of the old coated sets before they went back to uncoated plain steels. This sucks, tremendously.

[Cheesebuiscut]

I'd rather the plain strings be anti-rust and the low strings not coated too as the low strings tend to take much longer to rust up for some reason.

Its really a bitch for me as I want to swap strings but there's no sense in it atm. I'm pretty much gonna have to buy a full pack of coated strings from another brand and replace the low strings with elixirs since I can't stand much anything else.

Is a hassle for expensive coated strings...

[edsped]

Wow, I had no idea about this. The coated plain strings were pretty much the only reason I used Elixirs when I did.

[TheSixthWheel]

Oh yeah, you know how I said I'd lose my shit if I couldn't source coated strings locally? Goddamn, all their strings are ....ing new stock with uncoated plain steels. ....! This ruins me.

[Cheesebuiscut]

Welcome to the reason I've had the same strings on my guitar for almost a year now.

[MrMcSick]

Was not aware of this

[Cheesebuiscut]

SoOoOoO I guess that's a no... there's still no news about it...

[edsped]

So I went to the three closest national chain music stores today (2 Guitar Centers and a Sam Ash). I actually managed to find one single pack of 9-42s with the anti-rust strings at the Atlanta GC and none at either of the other two places, although the Sam Ash did have some I think 11s with the anti-rust label. I'm gonna try to check some smaller music stores this week and see if they have any old stock. Can't believe I was able to actually find a pack, and at the music store that sees the most traffic in probably the whole state.

[Cheesebuiscut]

Yeah most stores don't even carry heavier strings so I might have to switch up to a higher tuning than C# maybe even standard and try to find me some packs.

Or just switch to daddario coated again at a higher tuning since those work fairly well.

[edsped]

Do they really? The guy at Sam Ash was really trying to push some of the EXPs on me but I passed since I had terrible experiences with the coated EBs. How do the plain strings on the coated D'Addarios feel?

[Cheesebuiscut]

The coated daddario strings pretty much feel / sound like uncoated daddario strings.

They aren't AS good at preventing rust on the high strings as elixirs are, but its still wayyyy better than regular ole plain strings. Its really the only acceptable alternative to me from elixirs as I can't imagine going back to anything else I've tried (which is like everything)

[georg_f]

waaaaaaaaa! 2012 -> the end of the wo.... un-wound coated strings


oh crap... I only have around 10 packs of proper ones left...

[edsped]

Jesus, those could last you 10 years.

[TheSixthWheel]

I sent Elixir a lengthy email regarding lack of communication between them and the distributors. If it is indeed something the Australian (in my case) distributors know about, and are chosing to just not tell their customers, then Elixir should be addressing this and including some kind of notice or sticker on their boxes or even individual sets of strings so people know what they're buying, effectively half a set of strings for full price. Which, in this country is around $22 per SET! Sitting back and pretending shit's sill the same is an asshole move.

[magic_golem]

IIRC the packs that dont have antirust strings dont actually say 'anti rust strings', just 'coated strings'

[georg_f]

Originally Posted by TheSixthWheel

I sent Elixir a lengthy email regarding lack of communication between them and the distributors. If it is indeed something the Australian (in my case) distributors know about, and are chosing to just not tell their customers, then Elixir should be addressing this and including some kind of notice or sticker on their boxes or even individual sets of strings so people know what they're buying, effectively half a set of strings for full price. Which, in this country is around $22 per SET! Sitting back and pretending shit's sill the same is an asshole move.

true, I just bought a couple of packs recently. I checked them today and none of them are anti rust...
I wouldn't have bought them if I had known that they aren't fully coated anymore.

[edsped]

Originally Posted by magic_golem

IIRC the packs that dont have antirust strings dont actually say 'anti rust strings', just 'coated strings'

The packs with the regular plain steel strings just have the "with anti-rust plain steels" marking removed, but it's still a pretty hugely unnoticeable thing. They should at least start charging less for the strings if they aren't even going to be coating all of them. None of the guys at the music stores I went to had any idea about the change. Hell one of my friends didn't know either, he just thought he had gotten a bad set or something because his plain strings were getting corroded.

[Cheesebuiscut]

Its funny because of how long ago this happened and you guys are just raging about it now xD.


For people (not myself) who bought original elixirs and then they came out with the anti-rust strings it'd probably be hella noticeable when that decal popped right back off.

I noticed right away in that regard and actually read the box before buying it cause I noticed it missing. Expecting people to read is a silly thing though. As far as I understood they were working on getting the anti-rust stuff back, so that was the entire point of this thread was to see if people had any news regarding that.

Not really supposed to be a rage about something that happened a really long time ago thread.

[TheSixthWheel]

Originally Posted by Cheesebuiscut

Its funny because of how long ago this happened and you guys are just raging about it now xD.


For people (not myself) who bought original elixirs and then they came out with the anti-rust strings it'd probably be hella noticeable when that decal popped right back off.

I noticed right away in that regard and actually read the box before buying it cause I noticed it missing. Expecting people to read is a silly thing though. As far as I understood they were working on getting the anti-rust stuff back, so that was the entire point of this thread was to see if people had any news regarding that.

Not really supposed to be a rage about something that happened a really long time ago thread.

I believe that MOST Elixir string users are still finding out this news. How did you find out about it so long ago? And why didn't you tell everyone, ever? This thread was most certainly the way I found out about the shortage. It's taken until about now for most stores to fully cycle through the old stock of Elixirs, and people are only just now (in Australia, at least) experiencing their first few sets of non-coated plain steel string elixirs and are thoroughly disappointed. In fact, I thought it was weird you posted a thread which wasn't explaining anything about the shortage, just assuming everyone had their ear as close to the ground as you and already knew exactly what was going on. The only information on it is a small article on their site. The only reason I'd be on the site is if I knew something was wrong and went to research it. This affects many people who haven't simply known this from the beginning, like yourself, and I for one am unprepared. If you make a thread which contains breaking bad news to some people, expect them to rage a little

[edsped]

Originally Posted by TheSixthWheel

I believe that MOST Elixir string users are still finding out this news. How did you find out about it so long ago? And why didn't you tell everyone, ever? This thread was most certainly the way I found out about the shortage. It's taken until about now for most stores to fully cycle through the old stock of Elixirs, and people are only just now (in Australia, at least) experiencing their first few sets of non-coated plain steel string elixirs and are thoroughly disappointed. In fact, I thought it was weird you posted a thread which wasn't explaining anything about the shortage, just assuming everyone had their ear as close to the ground as you and already knew exactly what was going on. The only information on it is a small article on their site. The only reason I'd be on the site is if I knew something was wrong and went to research it. This affects many people who haven't simply known this from the beginning, like yourself, and I for one am unprepared. If you make a thread which contains breaking bad news to some people, expect them to rage a little

Basically this. If I hadn't seen this thread I probably wouldn't have known unless I had bought a new pack and had the strings die really fast and then Googled around to see what the deal was. I certainly never would have gone to their site on a whim and dug through stuff until I found their two notices.

[Greatoliver]

What other options are there for anti-rust plain strings? I checked my most recent packets and they still seem to be anti-rust, but now I am paranoid

[Cheesebuiscut]

There were threads on here from before like:

Elixirs becoming less rust resistant?

the one I made myself asking about it, though at the time I was still using anti-rust old packs I already had and was like *why are these rusting up faster* and then was told about this, my packs still being anti-rust though just not working as well.

Hence why I'm surprised people are just finding out now, since the news had been circulating for a while and somehow I guess no one was paying attention. Again though this wasn't intended to be a BTW GUYS THIS HAPPENED WAY BACK WHEN AND SOMEHOW YOU'RE HEARING ABOUT IT NOW! Thread, I was curious if there was any developments.