I have the best news to share: a kid saw my pics and video on the I’m Not Suhr guitar and his mom told me it motivated him to learn some guitar and asked me for advice on how to start supporting him.
I feel like I’ve won guitar life.
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Tuned to 5ths, right? I’d forgotten about those. 
There was a phase in my mid-late 20s I got really interested in the idea of tuning a seven string to 5ths. I eventually gave up after a couple weeks of looking into the idea, because while the range you could cover would be HUGE and it would lend itself very well to 4nps scale patterns… the range would be HUGE and finding a string that worked at high A and low E an octave below standard, or whatever high and low came out as, was just not gonna happen at 25.5" fixed scale.
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Same, but 4nps patterns are MURDER on my fretting hand wrist 
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Keep the regular tuning and use this to get you 5ths.
Not a crazy idea at all! But, honestly, I kind of ran into the other issue Eric mentioned - in theory you could do 4nps stuff anyway in standard guitar tuning… but really naywehere below the 12th fret, it gets stretchy FAST. In hindsight it wasn’t a good idea anyway.
I think I’m just pretty ingrained into standard tuning anyway these days - I’ll occasionally throw an acoustic into DADGAD or something, but I feel like I’m fumbling blind, and even my (crappy) slide playing, I almost always stay in standard. Alternate tunings are like a foreign language I only know a few phrasesin, and I’m kind of at peace with that I guess.
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