…and most importantly, the strings are staying put. i got in a good hour or so of playing on the mockingbird last night and she held up beautifully.

turns out that top-wrapping puts less pressure on the strings at the saddles, which is great for that slinky-loose feeling, but maybe not-so-good if your bridge can't hang with that. i was worried that reverting back to standard stringing would make a mess of the intonation or action, but so far it feels good the old way.

anyway, discovered that it's not the thing to do on my bc rich mockingbird because the strings kept popping out of the saddles if i picked them hard enough.

basics explained here: https://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/tips-and-tricks/string-theory-what-is-top-wrapping

i sure did! otherwise, #deathgrips was excellent!

dude to my other side tapped me on the shoulder and said to keep cool, which was fine. he tried to talk the incel out of going away but was unsuccessful. the incel looked at me at one point and said “face it- you lost!”