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I guess it's no surprise that the best known player of the 235 model was John Lennon and he used his in standard tuning. But I was wondering, wouldn't the small scale of that guitar have lend itself for alternate tunings?

For example: could you actually string it up with a thin gauge of strings and tune it up to an A-A tuning rather than the normal E-E tuning? Has anybody ever done that?

I was watching this clip of Pat Metehny playing a half scale custom Ibanez which got me thinking about this. Wouldn't a 325 be perfect for that kind of stuff too?

The way I see it is, as long as you adjust the Truss rod(s) and the nut accordingly, you do whatever you want to that fantastic instrument!

Nice tune!