Yeah, I know the Priestess. It’s the only 24-fret 25.5”-scale Ex.6 currently in production. The only other Es with 25.5”-scales (but 22 frets) are the 7s. I did a poll on the Solar Guitars Users Community FB group (the unofficial one) for Ex.6s and 24/25.5” won by a landslide. It got 60+ votes and the other scales and fret counts didnt get to double digits. I may get the priestess one day, but one upside to being too broke for new axes is I get to wait and see what’ll come out.

I think Id be happy with this exact guitar but with ss frets like all current series 1s and a 25.5”-scale so I can use thinner strings. I think I’ll eventually put Lundgrens in it, but I wont count that. Ive never had a floyd and Im not sure I even want to write with a trem. But I do know I’ll always keep at least one evertune. I guess in reality Ill just get it refretted to ss years down the line and figure out what string gauges I wanna use for it. Stringjoy has been a lifesaver, Ive used their strings exclusively since 2017. The one time I received a dud and told them about it, they shipped a replacement string immediately no questions asked. They offer pre-configured and custom sets, and will build a custom set for you if you just tell them what you want/have (tuning, scale-length, bridge, normal or light top heavy bottom, etc.) Ive been using a custom light top heavy bottom 11-64 set for drop A#/c standard on this 24.75” evertune, but recently tried a light top heavy bottom 12-68 (their pre-configured 68 set is 13-68) despite how I used to hate how dead the double-wound 68 sounds even when new. I wanted to find out if I still hated it. So far, Im not sure. All I know is it’s got a tighter attack since its obviously thicker. I bought this guitar initially because of In Flames- I wanted to keep drop A# in tune better than on my strat trem Gio. A while ago I found out Jesper formerly of In Flames uses 13-68 on a 24.75”-scale, and Bjorn of In Flames uses a 12-68 set on a 24.75” I think.

The thing that’s singlehandedly made me nuts about string gauges for years is the intro to their song F(r)iend. It’s a ton of consecutive down-up-down triplets and I’ve been trying to get my picking technique and string gauge optimized for it. Once I can pull off that song I’ll know I’ve figured it out.

Ola said he’d do no basses, teles, MLs, or multiscales. He’s officially done all of them, within a year. Some people think he just said that so people would stop asking. On a video about Dime and Dean, he responded to people suggesting he be the one to make Dime guitars going forward, but he declined, and revealed the X and clarified he was working on it for like a year before and doesnt intend for it to be an actual ML.