Stringjoy also lets you select your individual string gauges. They are hand-wound individually. However, being US-made strings, I don’t know how readily available/affordable they are in Europe.
Other US hand-wound string brands are S.I.T. and Dunlop. All three brands make outstanding strings in some very innovative guage and material combos, to suit a wide variety of playing styles.
I don’t think Stringjoy or S.I.T. are available over here; at least, I don’t think I have seen them made available in Europe. Dunlop you can get, especially the stainless steel variants (IIRC).
Let me know if you’d like to try Stringjoy and/or S.I.T. and I’d be happy to ship them to you. 
Incidentally, I recently watched a video by SBL’s Ian Martin Allison for Dunlop strings, where he demo’ed eight different sets on various basses. Very interesting characteristics.
I have some sets of Dunlop Nickel Super Bright and Marcus Miller Steel Super Bright strings winging my way. I want to try them out on my Sire V8 and M5, to see how they feel and play.
Much appreciated, Mike! I think I am good for now 
I just put a set of DR Fodera on the new 5-string bass - not bad! Not as smooth as TIs, but quite agreeable. The funny thing is I don’t like the 5-string set of the TI JRs… for some reason, I don’t like the B string in this set!?!
Really not a fan of steel strings at all… they have that dusty, dull feel to them; quite far from Ni smoothness 
If I were to try steel strings, I might try these:
Interesting gauges! Funny thing is that Evan plays those super bright strings, but always completely rolls off the treble on his bass 
It’s actually making for a surprisingly interesting tone (IMHO).
PS: shouldn’t you be off to bed by now, Mike!? One last Old Fashioned perhaps…
Hey, it’s holidays vacation time for me. Plenty of food, drinks, bass playing, napping with our puppies, etc.
Pretty soon, I have several work projects to get working on when the holidaze are finally over: lots of client videos to produce and edit.
But not today.
In the meanwhile, check this out. Dunlop Hybrid strings are interesting.
So, these are pictures of my 32" Dunlop Flatwound 45-105. Unfortunately I destroyed three perfectly good strings for an experiment last year, leaving me with one good A string (.100). As long as my experiment worked out (about 5 minutes worth of playing), they sounded really great!
This is a 32" A string on my 30" fretless (ignore the other strings and the missing nut - this bass is being disassembled currently):
And you’re right - a .105 E string would fit physically in the GB707 peg gap. This is the destroyed .105, so I could not fixate in on the bridge:
I have two choices now:
I will decide later, based on how much energy I have left after some other changes on my basses. Installing the battery box on one bass yesterday was much more complicated and time consuming than I thought (using a drill and a dremel) and I have two more basses to go 
Did you do that cause you got the 38" cheaply?
That would mean, I could get any size string for my 30" and just cut it down - more choice and better prices!
No, that’s their standard length 
That’s what happens anyway on headless basses, which just clamp the string, then snip. I would be concerned about windings unwinding on regular tuning machines. Here’s a photo of the headstock of my 27" Valiant Mini Bass. When I questioned Valiant about the heat shrink on the E string, they told me that they hadn’t yet had custom length strings made for it and wanted to avoid any unwinding issues on the rounds they shipped on it. I have since installed a custom length set of Pyramid Gold flats on it.
Do you mean the silk wrapping on some brands?!?
Never had a problem with these going through and around the tuners:
I am! This is why I discuss this
This is what happened with my experiment last year. I tried to apply the headless fixing principle on my 24" Blackstar Travel Bass, so I could use longer strings that I just cut at the ball end.
I failed miserably!
Ah, a fellow ABM 6240 adjustable brass nut user! Love those nuts!
I also ordered the very same string retainers, as this makes it easier to change string (together with a top loading bridge)
I think the remark was about unwinding, like this:
This is my destroyed Dunlop flatwound … look at the middle section, where everything came loose, despite the Heat Shrink Tubing I used to avoid just that 
Sorry, man! What can I say?? You are like an upside-down engineer - good in creating problems 
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”
Thomas Alva Edison
Edison was truly an @asshole … but surely he must have been a great modder
@Whying_Dutchman beat me to the answer. And he brought the receipts! His photo of a flatwound unwinding brought a tear to my eye.
It’s even worse when you have that string in your hands, believe me!
I felt sad…
I can see from the one remaining intact string, how good the quality of those Dunlops are - smooth and not stiff at all. And I remember their 5 minutes of fame, when all worked out perfectly and they sounded terrific … until they lost structural integrity and died a sudden heroic death.
You can’t imagine how the feeling of triumph turned to utter devastation in a matter of seconds.
I will meet them again in Valhalla
I now own a Reverend Raymond bass.
Saw it listed at a local Music Go Round. I’ve been wanting a Ray-type, and I absolutely loved the look of this thing with the gold paint, nifty body shape, and 5-piece neck. It sounds and feels just as wonderful. It is incredibly light. Even lighter than my Ibanez special. Although playing high on the neck isn’t great.
I had never even heard of Reverend guitars before. I guess they’re small, and quasi-boutique, but sitting at mid-tier prices (most of their basses are ~$1,200 new.) They’re based in Toledo, here in Ohio (although instruments are crafted in Korea). So I can go by and check them out in person next time I’m up that way.
When I first tested it, it let out a horrendous POP when I slapped or did percussive muting. But I lowered the neck pickup and that calmed down.
So now, I have to deal with my wife rolling her eyes at me for buying my third bass in 6 months. She did admit that it is gorgeous and it was really nice when I made her play it. She’s more bothered by the idea of me accumulating Stuff, rather than spending my money. But I’m going to sell my Sire I bought as my first bass, or keep it at work to be able to practice during downtime.
I’m not one to name cars, guitars, or other inanimate objects, but I feel like this one might need to be dubbed “The Beast”…
They make the most beautiful basses ever!
Except for that obscure brand I always forget … @Wombat-metal has one of those (of course):
Pretty sure that’s an Offbeat. They make awesome guitars. I love mine.
Yeah - Offbeat. How can I forget? Unbelievable how good they look. Total envy from my side
