Re: Bad news guys
Chuck, you're right. I've never played an SD Charvel. I'll tell you right now I'll hate the vast majority of them, but that's just because I hate full sized strat bodies. Star bodies on the other hand... [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] My problem is with the guys that insist everything made after X date is crap. One guy won't buy anything made after '82, another won't touch anything before '87 or after '92... ARHG! Everyone has the right to their own opinion, but what's the point in being so damn irrational? Some of the guys on this forum are worse than the damn FENDER and GIBSON collectors, fer f**k's sake! [img]graemlins/poke.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/poke.gif[/img] There's going to be good guitars and s**tty guitars from EVERY era from EVERY manufacturer. There's no sense eliminating so many GOOD guitars right off the top.
Newc: Ah, but here's a distinction that many don't make. Building an electric guitar is BARELY luthiery. The body is completely solid. It's not like a jazz guitar where the top must be tuned, it's just a chunk of wood. On an electric guitar, I'll take 90% CNC machined any day of the week. Higher quality at a lower price is always a good thing. The only point where I feel a skilled hand is neccesary on an electric guitar is in the fretwork. Everything else can be as computer generated as you can get it for all I care.
But as I've said before, I'm a damn weirdo. I don't believe in external mojo. I believe mojo is what you get when you find a guitar that feels right and works for your style. It's not a name, or a year. It's a FEELING. It could be a $3000 custom shop or it could be a $200 used Performer. To me a guitar doesn't have mojo because it was mae in a specific time or place. The important thing, the ONLY important thing, is that it just WORKS.
Chuck, you're right. I've never played an SD Charvel. I'll tell you right now I'll hate the vast majority of them, but that's just because I hate full sized strat bodies. Star bodies on the other hand... [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] My problem is with the guys that insist everything made after X date is crap. One guy won't buy anything made after '82, another won't touch anything before '87 or after '92... ARHG! Everyone has the right to their own opinion, but what's the point in being so damn irrational? Some of the guys on this forum are worse than the damn FENDER and GIBSON collectors, fer f**k's sake! [img]graemlins/poke.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/poke.gif[/img] There's going to be good guitars and s**tty guitars from EVERY era from EVERY manufacturer. There's no sense eliminating so many GOOD guitars right off the top.
Newc: Ah, but here's a distinction that many don't make. Building an electric guitar is BARELY luthiery. The body is completely solid. It's not like a jazz guitar where the top must be tuned, it's just a chunk of wood. On an electric guitar, I'll take 90% CNC machined any day of the week. Higher quality at a lower price is always a good thing. The only point where I feel a skilled hand is neccesary on an electric guitar is in the fretwork. Everything else can be as computer generated as you can get it for all I care.
But as I've said before, I'm a damn weirdo. I don't believe in external mojo. I believe mojo is what you get when you find a guitar that feels right and works for your style. It's not a name, or a year. It's a FEELING. It could be a $3000 custom shop or it could be a $200 used Performer. To me a guitar doesn't have mojo because it was mae in a specific time or place. The important thing, the ONLY important thing, is that it just WORKS.
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