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I did. Not good. The "super-polished" thing is a marketing lie. I would name them "barely polished round wounds". For round wounds, they are nice, but they are not anything like I expected. Lots of zingy brightness and string noise. Very rough to the touch.

Yeah, I initially ran across Mike (Ingold) on Reddit too. Initially I was just spitballing with him and asked if he'd consider making a short scale bass version of his semi-hollow guitar (he didn't have that as an available model at that time, after making mine he decided to make it a regular...

I would say: do what makes you feel relaxed and prepped. If you're the type that's going to stress about the what ifs- bring a back up set of strings or a bass. I used to tour professionally: for fly in gigs, I never had a backup instrument (if something were to go wrong, we're either fixing it...

I'd guess that unless you're willing to go to the show and babysit your instrument, it's not going to be worth it.

Fun! Good idea, too. If you're really going for laughs- add some star wipes for transitions. lol.

MonoNeon just isn't for me, but I wish him well. Glad y'all are digging it! Definitely has a strong P-Funk bend on this one.

personally- I think the most versatile is my franken-j with a nordstrand MM pickup at the bridge and a nordstrand j in the neck. but that wasn't an option on the poll. :)

Shine on, you crazy diamond. This is wild, and I love that you are just going for it! Long live experimenting to find something that works for you!

Good heads-up. I'll go check it out. Thanks!

For those of y'all who've put your shorties into BEAD tuning, what strings have you used? Specifically, if you're using a string-through shorty, let me know! Thanks!

I'm just here to watch the drama unfold. 🍿😎

I just took my calipers to my JMJ and it looks to be around 1.6"(ish)

I've had the same TU-2 since the 90s and it's been all around the world with me and it's never caused any problems. It's tough, reliable, easy to see and I just can't see any reason to spend money to upgrade something like a tuner with no actual downsides in order to have something with very...

cool. I didn't realize those were semi-hollows! Rad.