"Folk" ball-end nylons on a normal acoustic?

[redgibson]

Well. I know it would cost me a whole 5 dollar experimental investment to get a pack of these strings and put them on my Takamine, (steel strings normally) but has anyone done this before? I play predominantly electric, but i was strumming around my friends nylon stringed guitar when I was crashing there up in NYC and i really enjoyed how easily it played and just the different tone it generated. I asked someone at a store and they said it wouldn't work and proceeded to disappear into the back immediately, didn't really make me put a heavy weight on that evaluation....

:help

 

[FrankenFretter]

I bought some for my fiancee's daughter's acoustic, which has the bridge meant for ball ends. I tied a knot in each of the strings, and pushed the bridge pins in. It's working for all but the 1st string. Still having issues with that one coming out. I guess I should've thought this through a little more. I wanted her to have stings that would be easier on her little fingers, so naturally I turned to nylon.

I hope your experiment is more successful than mine. ;-)

-Sean

 

[redgibson]

Frankenfretter, these are the strings i was going to check out, they already have the ball-end on them, maybe they would work better? I'll probably pick up a pack of these if i am out and about this weekend (need a self reward for braving the idiot holiday shoppers traffic and general mayhem)

http://www.samash.com/webapp/wcs/st...End High Tension Nylon Guitar Strings-_-D2802

 

[FrankenFretter]

Frankenfretter, these are the strings i was going to check out, they already have the ball-end on them, maybe they would work better? I'll probably pick up a pack of these if i am out and about this weekend (need a self reward for braving the idiot holiday shoppers traffic and general mayhem)

http://www.samash.com/webapp/wcs/st...End High Tension Nylon Guitar Strings-_-D2802

Those seem like a lot less trouble. Nice. Maybe I'll order some, too...

 

[markb]

It was a popular modification during the "folk scare" of the 60s, I believe. The neck may take on a back bow if the tension is much lower but should be easy enough to adjust.