The gauge, tension, feel and sound of these strings is to me spot-on. They seem under-promoted - what is raved about is either fluorocarbon or nylgut, and I have to hope that the ecological value of the Sugar strings is not putting people off who might be the type inclined to (mis)use the word 'woke'. They are definitely and rightly a woke string if there is one... The strings did have a strange sweeping sound that some call a squeak, but this has died away, and to be honest I quite liked it anyway for the same kind of reason some of us like to hear an amount of buzz from a double bass or acoustic guitar. To give some help to those who might enjoy these strings, I find nylgut/ super-nylgut too thick, to the touch and to the ear. Nylon doesn't seem to sustain well, the gauges tend to be too thick and too like just using guitar strings. The Polygut-rebranded variation of Nylgut that Martin use makes for a bit too skinny a string though I do adjust to them when I've bought them. I think that although I'll fairly soon buy spare sets, I will leave the two sets on that I bought, until there's a breakage, and that I'll stop experimenting for now. I haven't come to that decision for a long time. I hope I get to hear this material on a guitar or guitalele before long also.

I'm finding these strings to be more natural-sounding that nylgut and more interesting tonally than fluorocarbon . The intonation is as good as it gets even without a compensated saddle ad the G isn't sharp high up the neck.