Project - how many guitars can I restring in a day?

Sunday turned into guitar project day... decided to see how many guitars I could get re-strung, setup, intonated, & polished in one day. So I started with the G&L ASAT Classic and worked my way through the fixed-bridge PRSi... two McCarty's, Custom 24, and Custom 22 semi-hollowbody. Spent most of the afternoon & evening working on it, and if I would've had more sets of medium or light gauge strings, I probably would have tried to squeeze in one or two more guitars (and been up until 2 AM in the process).

A few thoughts on the process...

• I've been gradually restringing everything with Elixir Nanoweb's... 9's on guitars with trems, 10's on fixed bridge guitars, and 11's on hollowbodies. Since I'm generally bad about restringing (everything gets restrung every 2-3 years around here), I'm hoping the coated strings will pay off in terms of improved tone/lifespan.
• The Peterson StroboStomp tuner is sort of a mixed blessing for doing intonation... on one hand, it's great to have such an accurate tuner at my disposal. On the other hand, it's so precise, it's virtually impossible to get all 6 strings perfectly intonated, especially on the bridges with non-adjustable saddles. I probably could have spent 3-4 hours trying to get each guitar perfect, but once I got it close enough, I'd double-check it with the less precise Sabine tuner. Almost every time, the tuning & intonation appeared perfectly in tune with the Sabine, even though with the Peterson it was still a bit off. Talk about diminishing returns!
• I've been a bit frustrated with getting the G&L's and Gibsons to hold tune recently, so I invested in a tube of Big Bends Nut Sauce (great name, eh?). It's a small syringe of lubricant that you apply to the nut, string trees, saddles, etc. in an effort to reduce friction and therefore improve consistency when tuning. I only used it on the ASAT's plastic nut & string trees on Sunday (the PRSi don't need it), but I imagine I'll use it on the Gibsons when those get restrung. In the mean time, I'm curious to see how much of a difference it makes in the tuning consistency on the ASAT.

Speaking of the ASAT... talk about a guitar that totally came to life with new strings. I didn't realize how "dead" the stock strings on it were... after a few months of playing it, I was thinking it was just a mellow-sounding guitar. But with new strings, it's twang-city 24x7. Almost makes me want to put together a country band, but not quite...

Assuming my Musician's Friend order arrives in time, I'll probably re-string a few more guitars (two trem-equipped Custom 24's, the Voodoo custom, the Heritage H-535, and the Gibson Country Western acoustic) this weekend. My goal is to get fresh strings on everything by the end of the year.

--B