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Originally Posted by radiofm74
Dear all,
I have a lovely ‘50s Höfner archtop. The neck is fairly big, no truss-rod.
I use VHS vintage bronze, .12-.54 but today at string change I put in a .14 high E. Do you think this might entail some dangers for the neck?
Thanks in advance!
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Hi, not sure why you would put a 14 on it - assuming its just the one string not a heavy gauge ? No worries.
I put medium gauge on all my archtops. (56-13)
Incidentally a 12 on a 25" scale is about 24.7 lbs tension, and a 14 would be 33.6lbs i.e about an extra 9 lbs give or take.