purchased by the lack of anything else available (I'm used to Fender pure nickel) to change the strings on my Squier stratovolcano.
I had initially fears related to bad memories of a set of Dean Markley Blue Steel farting in my fingers to the first tuning.
finally this one seems to bear the excessive bends (intro to Pink Floyd) and behaves rather well (given the proper tuning, its nice ...).

that is, not disappointed and I am tempted to buy ...