What strings for a resonator

[rayc]

Hello & welcome to the new year,
My Mrs. bought me a reso for xmas. Nice wooden body job, not a big brand or anything but it sounds like a reso and feels pretty good - really heavy thing too.
I assume the strings it came with aren't too flash. They are copper/bronze looking things and quite heavy which, when coupled with the slightly higher action I assume to assist slide playing, makes for fairly hard work. I don't mind the effort being, essentially a bass player who dabbles in guitar, but anything that creates fatigue lessens enjoyment.
What do you who have, have played, are knowledgable about reso's suggest for genral use?

 

[lpdeluxe]

I use Martin Bluegrass Resonator Guitar strings (.016-.056, wound 3rd). I understand the treble strings are silver-plated. Anyway, they sound better, and last longer, than any other sets I've tried. They are also readily available, which is important to me, being one of three Dobro owners I know of in two local counties! They are loud, which is useful since we do a "string band" each summer at church for the Sunday service which is performed acoustically, i e: no amplification whatever.

I use them on my '30s Regal spider, '80s wood-body Dobro spider, and had them on an Epiphone Biscuit reso I recently traded off.