Good ideas guys, thanks. There are a lot of potential tests that I could do once I get the set-up more or less finalized..
I was thinking of a "scale-length" comparison stringing the guitar with strings say from 008 to 012 or so and tuning them such that they produce the high E on different frets. Taking a single string and just testing the behavior vs tension is another thing, though here a big factor of how it sounds, at least for lower tension, is the fact that the string goes sharp when plucked (and its easy to press it out of tune at the fret too).
The pickup excercise should be easy to do, if you get too close to the strings with a pickup the magnetic field "will" change how the string decays, sometimes in funky ways. I'll try to take a look at that.
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Hi,
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