Question On JP String Gauges

[brettlingle]

I was curious if anybody knows if it would be ok to put 13's tuned up to standard "A" 440 tuning on a JP? I probably won't go that high but I definitely want to at least put 11's on there. I don't know if that would put too much stress on the neck though? The 10's I have on right now just feel like rubber bands to me and I pick very hard. Alot like Al Di Meola.
Brett Lingle

 

[geo]

Yo Bret,
I was told by a former guitar instructor that if your guitar is intinated for a certain guage an you put a lighter guage on you should be ok ,but if you go to a heavier guage string you shoud ckeck the intonation.

 

[Philip]

I think that 13 might be too extreme for the neck. But also you would have problems with putting the E A and D strings through the tuners. I sometimes have problems with putting 10's through on my EBMM JP. And if it was .054 I suppose it would be VERY hard.


Philip