Or a smaller guitarist and a midget drummer. Then you can use relative size perception to fool the audience into thinking that you have a rig to rival Stonehenge in its scale
I’d go for the sire
youre right, I think, about starting with a five For feel but beware that lots of tablature is written for a four and you’ll need to ignore the fifth string sometimes When watching performances or reading tablature
Some necks need a long time to relax so be gentle
Leigh Gordon’s mex jazz that I bought had a neck like a banana and took ages to come back to the land of playable
I use those thin plastic inserts that come in Next multi-sock packs
just cut to size. Thin, durable, don’t squash much and you can glide them into place by just loosening the neck a little - around 0.7mm thick
Given that he never changed his strings and used a foam mute I think any difference in sustain in his case would be negligible
his was a 62 which I think is not string thru - correct me if I’m wrong