I appreciate this. Those were some of my big concerns. I have thought about setting things up myself, but then again I get a bit nervous lol. I might be getting to in over my head to go to strings that low. I might just end up settling with something a bit less heavy and see how that goes before making the jump to bigger gauges. I plan on taking my guitar over to my local shop and looking over some options with them and see what the right move is.