Facinating Idea about reversing the strings, its hard to undue it though, I will try at some point.

As for dropping E's to D's thats what I do most of the time. Get this, if you drop both E's to D (what I call double drop D) then you are one more drop away from G Tuning anyway, which is dropping your A string down to a G. Faster to get from double drop D to G then back to standard E. So if you have to you can go in increments. G tuning is a full fleged open tuning but the others are just as good for their own things. I like all 3. Also sometimes I drop the E to a C (I have a very heavey low E string). Then I more likley drop the A to a G too. Play a C chord with just two fingers and it sounds great. But watch out if it buzzzzzes

Eric Levine