Is it good for your guitar to have a 10-52 +70 set?

[MacTown09]

Like will it slowly pull the headstock back and break the guitar or something? Is it going to be hard on a guitar to have this string set?

 

[behemoth91]

most guitars have reinforced necks but still even if yours isnt i dont think you have to worry about that.

 

[MacTown09]

So its safe on the guitar? the extra tension wont destroy her?

 

[behemoth91]

the tension will be psychotic but the odds of it breaking your guitars neck are pretty slim. i mean its wood against in comparison a rather small peice of metal string, plus it would make your guitars neck lurch forward if it did anything, and plus the bolts on guitars are really sturday and so are the neck woods of guitars. it takes alot of force to break a guitars neck, plus most of the time when you slam a guitar on the ground the neck and guitar at the bolt break off instead of damaging the neck or body. ive put a 0.056 gauge 2 whole steps higher then standard tuning to see if something like that could happe, nothing did. super tight as hell though.

 

[Spondus]

Considering loomis had a 70 tuned to B flat on a 26.5 scale, then no. I've used 11-70 in B before at 25.5 and not experienced a problem. The only issue may be fitting the string through the tuner (by partially unwinding it, IIRC the string I used was double wound so this required removing the first layer of winding when putting it through the peg)

Tell people what guitar you have, and then they can answer more specifically

 

[13point9]

im intending to do this with my next set of strings...

 

[MacTown09]

Well i have a 7620 and a hellraiser C-7 i plan on doing this to. I have the strings. just thought about the tension problems after i put em on. I use a 66 on my schecter in standard. I am going to tune to Bb now though rather than standard

 

[Spondus]

Well i have a 7620 and a hellraiser C-7 i plan on doing this to. I have the strings. just thought about the tension problems after i put em on. I use a 66 on my schecter in standard. I am going to tune to Bb now though rather than standard

In which case you'll be fine in standard on both, I had my RG in Bb and B with the same gauges and experienced no problems. You may need to adjust your truss rod if the relief of your neck changes however.

 

[MaxOfMetal]

It's nearly impossible for the force of the strings to break the guitars neck. Odds are, you'd pull the bridge hardware out of it's routes before the strings would have enough force to cause catastrophic failure of the neck, even at it's weaker points, such as the nut. Even with relatively light gauge strings most necks have around 100lbs of tension on them, so upping the tension by a dozen or so pounds really won't cause serious issues.

You'd have to have reinforced ball end strings with a super heavy gauge (think the lower side of bass) tuned relatively high on all strings, before you'd be damaging your neck.

Chances are, you'll need to adjust the relief of the neck, but thankfully, your guitar has a truss rod just for that purpose.

 

[Semi-pro]

Didn't SRV have a set of 13's tuned to standard E? Hell, i used to have 13's when i tuned my 6 stringer to B

 

[Snoop]

i just had 10-52-64 on b-standart on 25.5 scale - everything was fine! I'm using 10-46+64 now - better for me.

 

[The Atomic Ass]

the tension will be psychotic

I don't get this. Why do people assume that larger gauges at lower tunings will have uneven tension?

A .70 tuned to B will have less than a pound more tension than a .52 tuned to E. That to me is a nearly properly balanced string.

 

[MF_Kitten]

a .70 is perfectly balanced with a .52 in standard tunings.

and no, your neck won´t be damaged, go for it!

 

[Soopahmahn]

I don't get this. Why do people assume that larger gauges at lower tunings will have uneven tension?

A .70 tuned to B will have less than a pound more tension than a .52 tuned to E. That to me is a nearly properly balanced string.

He didn't say it would be unbalanced. He said the tension would be psychotic. And by that, he meant high.

 

[Isan]

I have used a 14- 80 in standard fine

 

[All_¥our_Bass]

I have a 100 on my guitar.