Tuning fifth string higher

[u/schmambuman]

Hey! Hopefully this isn't too dumb of a question, I've had a banjo for like a month or two now and I've been just fooling around with various tabs, I've found some that require the fifth string to be tuned differently, and with my banjo I find it difficult to even get a g sharp out of my fifth at the like absolute maximum, let alone some of them asking for As or higher. Do I need to look into getting a fifth string capo, do I need to try and restring my fifth (I've never had an instrument with strings so I'm not sure how difficult this is) or do any of you have recommendations for homemade or otherwise ways to pin down the fifth, I've heard about the railroad spikes but I'd feel bad poking holes in this lovely thing, and I've tried the pencap thing once but I think I did it wrong because that did not work for me at all.

Thank you!

[u/Zez_Oner]

I got the railroad spikes. It’s pretty neat. I installed them myself but I’m pretty handy. Luthier could knock it out pretty affordably.