Not exactly thread creep - thread ooze maybe?

People interested in the odd instrument category of n-string guitars might also be interested in the short exchanges in:

Subject: Swiss Army Knives and musicians and
Subject: Help: 7-string Dobro?
Not sure I got the first clicky so it will go to the right post, but search "Dobro" in the thread if it doesn't.

FWW: I know that the mandolin uses double-course strings for the theoretical reason that it should give better volume. My own observation is that with single strings that small and that tight, you would not have a musical instrument - you would have a meat slicer. (Sorta the fakir's bed-o-nails thing?)

Maybe the same sort of thing works for doubling the skinny strings on the guitar. It makes bends a b...ch, but "slides" are certainly a lot easier on the finnerbones.

John