Electric Guitar Trends

Steel guitar strings have been with us for a long time now. However, they have been changing over the years.
Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhart was known for using Argentine strings on his Selmer Maccaferri acoustic jazz guitar. These strings have silver plated wraps on the wound strings to create a unique warm tone, [...]

I am surprised how much dancing around there is on this subject.  Even the manufacturers of guitar strings seem unable to articulate when it is time to change the strings on an electric guitar.
Sometimes the advice is simply to play the guitar until the strings feel dead, or don’t sound as good as they used to.  [...]