Having said above that they offer no advantages over a paddlehead, I'm in the camp that the slight inconvenience they pose when changing strings wouldn't sway me at all if I were buying a guitar. If you like the sound of a 12-fret guitar and you're not ordering a custom, then you're going to wind up with a slothead. I don't have Silly's string change-fu, but I think it takes me about 2 minutes more to change all six strings on either my slotties than on my paddlehead.
I haven't broken a string while playing an acoustic guitar in so long I can't remember the last time it happened, so for me that is a non-issue.
Trent
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