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I think the way I would chose to put it is; Don't be an idiot - if it sounds good, it is good. Hell, most of the audience is never going to notice anyway! Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

Not since like 1958. They make the Authentic series with Hide Glue for most parts, but nothing else. They use Tightbond for most things, which is a perfectly fine glue for the purpose, and though not quite as repairable as hide glue, it's pretty good. And I would call it more of a firm tap...

Doesn't work as well with split humbuckers. When you tap the coil which isn't active, it makes the other coil click a bit too. You get that with a screwdriver too, but not nearly as much, and you can hear the difference a LOT better. Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

OK, fine, if you want to do that from time to time, go ahead. The problem is that a lot of guys do it all the time, and they never spend any time developing their own style. Which is really annoying. When Wes did it, it was original and cool. If I were to do it, it would sound like I was...

Yup, that's what I do. Though my most common metal object is one of the hooks from my peg board wall, as it sits right next to the amp in the shop, and I always forget to bring a screwdriver over from my bench. Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

Gods, I don't know. I don't really think about things like that anymore. I have some hand problems that pretty seriously curtailed my guitar playing for a long time, and I almost never play lines because of it. Honestly, most of the time these days I just think in terms of triads and fuck...

God I hate that phrase. Nothing personal - it's been overused by people for as long as there has been music. But it fails in one major way: music theory doesn't teach you rules. Music theory NEVER tells you what to do, it tells you how to do what you already had in mind. Music theory...

DOH! You are right. It's been a while since I thought about this shit. My head hurts just imagining the sound of that. Light "Cowards can never be moral."

You're putting words and value judgements in my mouth there that I never wrote. I never said any of them were better, I just said they were different. The stamped saddles are what they used on the vintage stuff, which is why a lot of people like them (because they assume that Leo Fender alway...

Don't just listen, figure it out. You don't necessarily have to learn how to actually play it perfectly, but most important is to learn how the lines relate to the the changes. It's all too easy to learn to play the lines, but forget to learn the chords, at which point you've really just...

Playing "outside" can be about throwing in chromatic lines, but there are a lot of ways to get there. First of all, you say you understand: But this leads me to think you are missing a big part of the picture. Lydian is a mode of the major scale. It's the major scale starting on the...

Hold up now, I never said anything about LAZY. In fact, I said something rather negative about people who think it's lazy. I just said alternate tunings weren't a MUST. Hell, at least part of my reason for not using them is that I'm lazy. Plus, many of my favorite guitar players use them all...

SHOCKING!!! :) Learn the theory first, THEN leave it behind. It's important to know the stuff first, as the real purpose of theory is to teach you how to play the things which you are hearing in your hand. Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

Oh, and I actually like Graph Tech's String Saver saddles. I have them on one of my Strats, though that one is out of commission at the moment. I got them at first because I was breaking a shit ton of stings, and they helped a LOT. I can't say that I noticed a huge difference in sound with...

If all you saw were stamped or offset saddles you were not doing a very high percentage of their saddles in the late nineties. Even when they use offset saddles, most of them are offset to the same side. Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

Ask other local guitar players. Ask your local music store. Go watch a really good local band, and ask them. Word of mouth is the best thing in the world to find a good repair shop. Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

We don't know. We aren't going to know. We haven't looked inside the amp, and we haven't heard what it is doing. You need to take it to a good tech if you want it made right. Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

Sure, but I'd rather not have to bring 20 guitars to a show! When I want to break through a wall, I try rewriting the chords for a song, or try to find new voicings for everything. Add tensions or something. Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

Or do what all the bass players do and play tenths! Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

There are several versions. The offset ones were only used on a few guitars back in the eighties (I think they were the Strat Plus). These days they are all centered. Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi