I’ve never done it and wonder what some of your opinions and experiences are. Not worried about tough chords or finger pain. Like many others, I’ve got decades of callouses. I’m just wondering if you think the change is worth it. I’ve got numerous guitars too experiment with and am thinking that an ol’ dog can still learn a few tricks. I play Drop D on my squareneck, but using a slide is easy and I just play old blues stuff on it…... Any big adjustments that you had to make to your normal
I love D Standard tuning. Around 6-7 years ago I read this article by Andy Ellis around that time, and it encouraged me to try it out. All my guitars (J45, Hummingbird & J200) are setup this way from day one.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100110211252/https://theguitarshow.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/the-case-for-d-standard-guitar-tuning/
Shortly after trying it, I found this article by Laurence Juber where he discusses his string gauge preferences. Not much more info than the abo