Originally posted by SLY
... I never play .008's cuz whenever I play a guitar strung with these & do some crazy bendings I instantly break the high e-string , not to mention the crappy tone you get from these (IMHO).

true words... you need to have some mass in your strings in order for them to interact with the pickups, plus the fact that 'spiderwebs' sustain even less than the average banjo! (And I ain't humble about my opinions... I've developed them over a lot of years). :)