Tuning

What do people think about alternate tuning?

It can give some really nice effects, but it's also like playing a whole different instrument (different chords etc.)

Yeah, definitely worth trying every once in a while, but I know it can be quite tedious and annoying trying to find chords/solos without any dissonant notes. Jimmy Page seemed to cope pretty well with some wacky tunings.

Drop D for power chords makes since, if you use powerchords, I don't. Open G is about the only other tunings I go with and this only when I want to mess around with a glass slide. Like has been said it's a lot of trouble unless you really have a reason.

you can get some different natural harmonics, that would otherwise be very hard/impossible to get in standard. might be a cool idea to use for backing or rythm guitars?