Looking back at
GotMead.com where I worked through the recipe and fermentation of this traditional mead it is interesting that in my initial post there that I guessed/guesstimated/mad-a-WAG that the final SG might be 1.0080....looks like it hit pretty doggone close to that mark!! Maybe just a tiny grunt (.0010 drier).
(I read on through the GM thread before posting this message and...)
Looking further into that thread I see where I posted that the hydrometer, when tested with distilled water, read 1.0020. So the final SG readings were probably closer to 1.004-1.005...a little bit drier than first thought. I used two different hydrometers to measure the final SG but I used only one to measure the OG.
FWIW.