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Oh, and unless you have stainless steel frets, stainless steel strings will eat your frets faster than fat kids eating chocalate cake at fat camp (even with stainless steel frets, you will notice fret wear pretty fast).
Tension wise, think of it like this. On a 24.75" scale guitar, a 25.5" is roughly the equivelent as a -1 frets, and a 27" as -2 frets, or 24.75=E standard, 25.5 Eb standard, 27=D standard, with the relatively same tension with the same string gauges. So think about what string guage feels good at what tuning/scale length, and then figure from there. If you want to keep the same tuning, but up the string guage, tune up a step for comparisons sake. Or if you want to tune higher, but keep the same tension, go down string guages (if 10s feel good at B, then 8s should feel close at C#).
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