| Well it's tough to make a balanced high tension set with a .145 B. A .145 tuned to B sits somewhere around 37-38 lbs., which IMO is not quite high tension, but tight enough to get a nice sound out of and certainly not too floppy.
Here's what I came up with:
B - .145 - 37.5 lbs.
E - .105 - 37.3 lbs.
A - .080 - 40.5 lbs.
D - .055 - 37.6 lbs.
G - .045 - 41.9 lbs.
C - .032 - 41.9 lbs.
Not exactly high tension, but fairly well balanced. Those are calculated with D'Addario UW's, if you shop around for singles, you may be able to find something between a .040 and a .045 that would bring that G string down a couple of pounds and the same for the C string, for the sake of balance.
If you call Fodera in Brooklyn, NY, they'll be willing to build you a set of custom gauge stainless steel strings, and it wont cost you what you would expect to pay for a custom set. They did a custom 5 string set for me for under $50. I told them what gauges I wanted, what material I wanted and what scale length. |