Yet, Ones do.
But yeah, that might not be a great way to say it, the point was more that both strings wear the fretboard on a fretless.
Of course it is all opinion bases, but fretboards wear with any string on it. Unless they are this ebanol, but IDK much if anything about that.
Ok gang, I have been pretty vocal about my sincere like for flats, but I have a comments and a question (perhaps bordering on flat wound sacrilege)âŚ
I am seriously considering restringing one of my Fenders (J, P, or P/J Mustang) with round-wounds. There are some tones which I just canât seem to get to with all of them strung with flats - it is probably my lack of experience with tones on the basses and/or my amp, but I am blaming it on the strings.
So, if you were in my dilemma, which bass would you suggest restringing with round wounds?
I have the OEM strings which came on them, plus, I have some DâAddario NYXLâs which I bought originally for my J but never put on it so let me know your thoughts please.
PS - For my fellow BassBuzzâer friends who are hard-core flats, please forgive me for my hypocrisy. 
Ebanol is a high pressure composite matrix made from paper and phenolic resin. Itâs harder than wood or epoxy. Cleans up easily and polishes to a nice shine, never needs oil and doesnt dry out.
This I know.
Thanks for the explanation.
Very interesting video, @T_dub . . . 
I plead guilty to have been believing #5 and #6 all these years!
(I still wouldnât cut my bass strings under tension, though 
)
Cheers
Joe
I have ground wounds on mine, it came like that from the previous owner. If i ever replace the strings in ~2030, i might put round wounds on it but i like the feel/tone of the ground wounds. 
Iâm not trying to sound like Jaco anyway, i like a more upright sort of sound 
I really like the message at the end, to the effect ofâŚ
âWhen you make bad or nasty comments on the internet, you are commenting on somebody elseâs art, and although it might not seem like a big deal to you, it can be for that person, itâs their art you are commenting on.â
If you are a flats fan putting rounds on would not only give you new calluses but it would breed new life to your bass.
I like the slight buzz sound of rounds but love the flat feel my happy medium seems to be nylons.
I have round wounds on my jazz bass and flats on my pj, so that
I chose that because to me, rounds fit the character of a jazz better and flats on a p/pj.
Working as a designer and having participated in several arts over the years i can only offer this advice: if youâre doing it for you, do what makes you happy. If youâre doing it for a business, do what makes your customer happy. Otherwise, get used to people not liking what you do; ignore it, it doesnât matter. Itâs the internet, nobody is forcing you to read those messages from other people. If you want feedback/critique from people, you have to take the good with the bad. Nobody can hurt you with words if you donât give them that power.
All I said, was I like the message. It doesnât really apply to me.
not everything has to
I would put them on my J. My J sounds great with rounds, and my PJ Jaguar sounds great with flats.
That being said, I am putting Labella Flats 1954 on my J tonight to see if I can coax some Motown out of her, but Iâll have DâAddario rounds on my SR600e still
When my Harley Benton Ray-alike arrives, itâs getting Rotosound RL 66 45-105âs on it. SS roundwounds. Iâve used these before on my first bass (GSR200) and I like them. Itâll be quite a contrast to my P-clone with GHS Precision Flats.
I have the opposite!
Thatâs what a friend (pro-musician) also suggested as I asked him too. He said, âPut the rounds on the P, since itâs meant to have some bite to it anyway.â
I shouldnât have even opened this can of worms as it is like âGroundhog Dayâ as these are essentially the same questions I asked myself when I was even considering buying flats in the first place.
Oh well, these âfirst world problemsâ arenât so bad and things could be much worse to be worrying about.
Same thing with pedals and what order they go in. Just pick a config and if you like it, itâs the right one. Same goes with strings.
If you think itâs right for you and it sounds good, done. Iâm so tired of pulling pedals up from Velcro.
And I rarely swap stings anymore. I think about a bass and the strings to use kinda âcomes to meâ. The last string excercise Iâm doing is which rounds to end up with in my stingray. Stainless or nickel. But they do be rounds.
I havenât matured enough in my bass journey to start using / acquiring pedals. 
Frank Bello has one pedal on his board, a Sansamp DI. You may not need pedals at all.
Strings are very subjective. Like I said the other day, pick a genre and Iâll name a bassist who plays flats, or rounds.
I put flats on my PJ to go a little old school. And I really like the feel. I was playing some 8 bar blues yesterday and was throwing in some slide fills.
Try out a set of what you want, and if you donât like it, change.
I agree. The beauty of the whole deal is that no-one HAS TO anything. Itâs all about what aligns with your preference.