String Varieties

Nickel

Pure Vintage Tone + Feel

Pure tone and warm response of 100% Nickel with the robust American String mid-range.

* Our most popular string variety.

100% Nickel wrap wire and specially-tempered tin-plated high carbon steel hex core to produce pure vintage tone, longer life, and great feel in your hands.

Nickel *Round Core

Boomier Vintage Tone + More Flexible Feel

*  The twin to our most popular Nickel string sets but with a round core.

Delivers a “Boomier” tone and an even more compliant/flexible feel.

Rock Formula (Alloy 52)

Deep Mids + Max Output

Perfect for heavier rock and jazz-rock fusion styles.  Designed for maximum output and deeper mid-tones.  

Uniquely-designed with 52% nickel alloy wrap wire and specially-tempered tin-plated high carbon steel hex core.

Steel (Nickel Plated)

Balanced + Bright

More aggressive attack with plenty of mid-range.

8% Nickel plated steel wrap wire around our specially-tempered tin-plated high carbon steel hex core.

Phosphor Bronze

Let Your Acoustic Sing!

Quintessential acoustic guitar string sets that bring out your guitar’s true voice.

** Our most popular acoustic string sets.

Phosphor bronze wrap wire and specially-tempered tin-plated high carbon steel hex core help unleash your guitar’s orchestral potential.

Phosphor Bronze *Round Core

** The twin to our most popular acoustic string variety but with a round core. 

Delivers a “Boomier” tone and an even more compliant/flexible feel.

Bronze 85/Lost 60s Acoustic

Premium Sets for Premium Acoustics/Archtops

The premium string set choice for acoustic flat-top and archtop instruments of the highest quality (i.e., Martin D-28s, Guild F-50s or Gibson L-7Cs).

Mandolin Phosphor Bronze

Phosphor Bronze Mandolin Strings, loop end

Mandolin Bronze 85

Bronze 85 Mandolin Strings, loop end

Banjo

Phosphor Bronze Banjo Strings, loop end

Accessories

Picks, Straps, Shirts, Hats, & Decals that deliver high quality from AmericanString that you have come to expect.

Player Reviews

Sample of verified customer reviews.  See more verified customer reviews on each product page.

D.S.verified customer

Nickel 10-46 *****

“Perhaps the best strings on the planet”

K.N.verified customer

Nickel 9-42 *****

“…The strings brought my guitar to life. “

Rosemary S.verified customer

Nickel 10-46 *****

“These strings are better than ANYTHING I’ve ever used…”

William B.verified customer

Alloy 52 10-46 *****

“These strings don’t break, and they outlast any other string that I have tried.”

Carl A.verified customer

Steel 11-48 ****

“Fat tone on LP. Bell like chime on strat. I really like these strings…will buy more.”

American String

The Finest Instrument Strings

We design and produce the highest quality, longest lasting strings,…superior tone, great feel in your hands, strings that stay in tune and perform longer than other brands.

A Century of Craftsmanship

We have been producing guitar strings for our customers and for many other leading guitar string brands for decades & we have been the ONLY string maker for Steinway and Sons Pianos (and just about every other fine piano manufacturer) for more than 100 years!

AmericanString Brand

American String is the premium string brand launched in 2015 for Mapes Wire.  We design and produce the highest quality, longest lasting strings…superior tone, great feel in your hands, strings that stay in tune and perform longer than other brands.

Designed, manufactured, and wound in the United States by AmericanString.

The Craft of Instrument Strings

We apply more than a century of string making to produce the finest instrument strings.  We utilize what no other string maker can, including:

  • Five generations of expertise and manufacturing processes to wind strings for your guitars by our craftsmen right here in the United States of America,
  • The highest quality source metal (we use only superior American steel), and
  • Advanced manufacturing technologies that we use in our own wire mills right here in the United States of America.
This produces the highest quality longest lasting strings,…superior tone, great feel in your hands, strings that stay in tune and perform longer than other brands. Designed, manufactured, and wound in the United States by AmericanString.

Tone, Feel, & Performance - Perfected

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