Heavy gauge silk and steel strings: anybody tried 'em?

HCQ

I would think that the heaviest gauge you could use would be dictated on whether or not they can be inserted into the Selmer style tailpiece.

Lango-Django

But getting back to the original topic, I'll just share my experience with LaBella S & S strings.

A) I called LaBella and they sell strings in packaged sets only. So much for my original idea of buying individual strings to put together a heavy set.

I did buy a few sets of their intermediate gauge but that was a disappointment. The tone wasn't all,that different than my usual D'Addario intermediate gypsy strings.

But what WAS different was an overall stiffness that pretty much precluded string bending.