The DR Handmade Hi-Beam 80/20 acoustic guitar strings are designed for extra brightness, to cut through the ensemble playing of bluegrass musicians, and to derive extra clarity from heavily braced, or dull sounding guitars. The Ho-Beam 80/20 acoustic guitar strings are handmade and handwound for great tone, and an increased longevity around a hex core.

 

Fine Strings

 

DR HandMade Strings have been dedicated to making wonderful sounding handmade guitar strings since 1989. The concept is that great sound inspires a musician to play better and longer, while adding a new level of enjoyment.

 

Obsession for Greatness

 

Since many of the people at DR HandMade Strings are players themselves, they are able to use their playing experience, and their own obsession with music, as well as the highly valued input from many players throughout the world, to strive to continually increase the range of sounds available to guitar and bass players. They value the feedback that players are willing to share about how they can hear, feel and appreciate the difference. DR makes a wide range of types and models of guitar strings because they know that each one clearly provides a different sound and feel for the many styles of playing and players.

 

Guilded Testing

 

DR HandMade maintains copious amounts of guitars (especially Guild acoustics) for testing the guitar strings they produce. Why Guild guitars? First of all, they like them. Secondly, Mark Dronge, who founded DR HandMade Strings, is the son of Al Dronge, founder of Guild Guitars.

 

The Fine Art of Fine-Tuning

 

The goal at DR is to recreate the very best of old fashioned handmade craftsmanship and combine that with most technically advanced materials and/or coatings available to transcend the boundaries of the guitar string manufacturing process. This is done in the pursuit of great sounds to inspire unrivaled musicianship.

 

Hi-Beam 80/20 Acoustic Guitar Strings

Item Number	Gauge	E	B	G	D	A	E
HA-11	Medium Lite	11	15	22	30	40	50
HA-12	Medium	12	16	24	32	42	54
HA-13	Medium-Heavy	13	17	26	34	45	56