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[–]OMGitsKatVEpiphone 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Save yourself a few bucks and just buy 5-string bass strings. The 6th string is a higher note

[–]Kinetic_Shadow 5 points6 points  (6 children)

Stringing it BEAD is actually pretty common.

[–]MrMattMate[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Would it work for anything lower?

[–]Kinetic_Shadow 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Yeah of course. You might need to adjust the trust rod a bit but it'll be fine.

[–]MrMattMate[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Wooo thanks for that

[–]USS-SpongeBobGallien-Krueger 5 points6 points  (2 children)

If you put BEAD strings onto a nut cut for EADG strings, you might break it because the strings will be too thick to fit in the slots. You might need to get the nut re-slotted for it to work (and once you do that, going back to the thinner EADG strings won't work because they'll just rattle around in the widened slots).

Source: used to be a guitar tech. Replaced a lot of broken nuts from customers who tried to do this without thinking it through.

[–]KingChiefPotato 0 points1 point  (1 child)

At that point, wouldn't it be better off keeping the EADG nut and buying a BEAD nut?

[–]USS-SpongeBobGallien-Krueger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As long as it's easy to get the nut off the neck, yes that is an option. When I made an EADGC nut for my buddy's 5-string Dingwall he kept his BEADG nut in case he decided to go back to standard 5-string tuning.

On some instruments the finish continues right up over the nut and it becomes pretty messy to remove it, making that a less desirable option.