i am always amazed by the amount of people who cannot play
slide without changing their guitar settings and tunings. I have tried to show anyone who will listen that you can still play effective sllide without raising your strings more than you normally would, altho' i use heavier strings (11-52) i still lower the strings as much as i can, i have had quite a few amazed guitarists who pick up my guitars and play them and say that the action makes the guitar feel like there are 10s on the guitar, and since when i started learning slide (in 1971) i did not know that the guitar had to be retuned, i find that standard tuning can be quite satisfying using major triads and minor triads for chording and going from regular lead to slide quite quickly with the standard tuning-thanx for your patience and i would like to hear from slide guitarists on any subject-happy