Ball end mandocello strings

[philboyd studge]

Anyone know where I can find some? It's an elaborate procedure to get the regular loop end ones to work on my Ovation mandocello.

 

[Treeline]

Here are some places to call. Hard to see whether they use ball ends, though.

http://www.elderly.com/accessories/items/J78.htm

http://www.juststrings.com/dad-j78.html

 

[philboyd studge]

treeline,

Thanks, but the trouble with them is the bass strings (C - .074's) are two thicknesses and intended to go over a bridge from a tailpiece.

What I've been doing is to take a piece of coathanger and hold the loops of the other six strings at the bridge with it and turn the bass strings around and wrap the bare wire where the winding stops to the coathanger wire. It's a big pain in the ass.