Ernie Ball 2223 Super Slinky string set
The Ernie Ball 2223 Super Slinky is a string set for electric guitar from Ernie Ball’s well-known Slinky line. The product information mainly highlights the origin of this range: Ernie Ball developed sets with a lighter setup and an unwound G string at a time when a wound G string was still standard.
That places the Super Slinky in an approach that was meant from the start for guitarists looking for something different from the common string combinations of the day. The Ernie Ball name has remained closely linked to guitar strings ever since, and the Slinky series became a familiar choice among electric guitar players.
The background of Ernie Ball
Behind Ernie Ball was Roland Sherwood “Ernie” Ball, who was already playing steel guitar professionally around Los Angeles as a teenager and later performed with the U.S. Air Force Band. After working on stages, television and in the studio, he opened a guitar shop in Tarzana, California in 1958.
From that hands-on experience, he saw that many guitarists benefited from a lighter set with an unwound G string. That idea became the basis for the first custom sets under the Ernie Ball brand and later for the Slinky strings, including the Ernie Ball 2223 Super Slinky.
