String HARDNESS
I have wondered the same for some time. We need to find a guitar player who is also an M.E. (mechanical engineer). If you used a hardness guage on your frets (as a benchmark) and various makes of strings (for comparison) I think the results would be illuminating.
An example of relative hardness is the fact that diamonds cut glass but glass doesn't cut diamonds (diamonds being relative harder than glass).
I can't imagine that coatings (or lack thereof) will prove to be relevant, since photo's I've seen show the coatings more between the windings (in the low spots) than over the top of the windings (the high spots) and it's only the high spots that ever touch the frets.
Has anyone ever done this kind of testing??? Maybe I'll have to Google this...
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