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mrcarter:
1) Wood does suprisingly little. I have built guitars, I know this for a fact. D'Aquisto once built an archtop out of, I shit you not, cardboard, a little bit of plywood, and paper maché. It could kick more ass than 90% of guitars out there. It's how the materials are put together, not what they are.
2) You really have no faith in people. It's easy to say "people know Fender, so they're going to buy them." As far as I'm concerned, anyone who goes into a store and buys the first guitar they see just because of some name isn't a guitar player, they're a tool. God forbid they'd play more than one thing before they buy.
3) http://toronto.craigslist.org/msg/180920377.html enough said.
Name something revolutionary that another company is doing? I'll give you two, and I'll be impressed if you can name another, let alone match my offering.
Rainsong guitars makes acoustics entirely out of graphite. You see, sound energy going into the wood on a guitar creates heat, substantially so the higher up the neck you go (hence less sustain). Graphite negates this effect, so you end up getting high ringing notes at the top.
Garrison out of Newfoundland recently began shipping guitars with a one-piece bridge and bracing system that helps sound to transfer to the top.
4) Lets see... Funk, Punk, R&B, Jazz, Soul, Gospel, Rock (and yes, strats can handle hard rock, and regular teles can actually hold their own in metal settings), Pop, Klezmer, Reggae, Ska, Dub, and just about everything else - Fenders can handle it. I'd say, and I'm sure many would agree, that the Strat is one hell of a versatile guitar. Then you look at basses. Shit, a Jazz Bass can handle everything. No exceptions. If there's a bass, a jazz will do the trick.
And I'm really questioning your sense of tone if a coil splitted humbucker gives you a single-coil tone you're happy with. That's gross. Like EMG gross.
5) Fuck /no one/ needs an American strat. Shove some Duncan's in a Mexicaster and holy hell that's a fine ass guitar for way less than your nancy-boy pointy-ass Ibanezs. The only thing cool about the Prestige series (other than the DiMarzios in some, those are the sex) is the piezo bridge - but wait, Fender has that. And they're better piezos at that.
"Vibe" is where it gets subjective, and where we can't argue. You think Ibanez's feel soulless, which I to some extent understand. They do have a more "technological" feel to 'em, I'll agree with you there. I just think it's a small sacrifice to make, in other to have the playability and sound of it.
Go out and actually play a Fener tomorrow. A stock, Mexican made (Japenese if you're feeling particularly peckish) Fender. Play a couple. Guaranteed you'll find something you love. Perhaps a nice black telecaster with a sexy sexy maple fretboard. Then you're going to go see a replacement pickguard in the clearance bin, and suddenly you won't feel so bad about it looking like someone else's guitar.
mrcarter:
--- Quote from: Lummer --- Your PRS and your Epiphone may have stood next to each other in the rainforest, but the tree with the dragon inlaid on it became the PRS.
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FreshJive787:
--- Quote from: mrcarter ---1) Wood does suprisingly little. I have built guitars, I know this for a fact.
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you must be tone deaf.
anyway taylor built a guitar out of plywood and it sounded pretty good but thats only because of their superior craftsmanship, a better wood built to the same quality would have produced a better tone.
and dont call me a nancy boy because i consider a lighter guitar nice.
mrcarter:
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--- Quote from: mrcarter ---1) Wood does suprisingly little. I have built guitars, I know this for a fact.
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you must be tone deaf.
anyway taylor built a guitar out of plywood and it sounded pretty good but thats only because of their superior craftsmanship, a better wood built to the same quality would have produced a better tone.
and dont call me a nancy boy because i consider a lighter guitar nice.
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tone deafness is not being able to hear pitches... ironically enough
and yeah, I'm not saying that the wood you use doesn't effect it, I was merely trying to say that it doesn't do as much as you'd think. Espcially if you put high gain pickups in... as a generality they tend to bully other parts of the guitar into sounding the way they want, which is kind of cool when you think about it.
And I mean nancy-boy in the nicest possible sense, almost endearingly. Lighter is nice and all that, but its usually not worth the trade-off for tone.
Misereatur:
--- Quote from: mrcarter ---1) Wood does suprisingly little. I have built guitars, I know this for a fact.
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You hav'nt read the links I posted, right?
--- Quote from: mrcarter ---4) Lets see... Funk, Punk, R&B, Jazz, Soul, Gospel, Rock (and yes, strats can handle hard rock, and regular teles can actually hold their own in metal settings), Pop, Klezmer, Reggae, Ska, Dub, and just about everything else - Fenders can handle it. I'd say, and I'm sure many would agree, that the Strat is one hell of a versatile guitar. Then you look at basses. Shit, a Jazz Bass can handle everything. No exceptions. If there's a bass, a jazz will do the trick.
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You seriously read nothing? I quoted 13 of the best Bass builders in the world debating about just that.
--- Quote from: mrcarter ---I'm not saying that the wood you use doesn't effect it, I was merely trying to say that it doesn't do as much as you'd think
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Well, yes. Sound is about 80% player 10% wood and 10% hardware.
Like it or not, if your guitar sounds like crap, its probably you.
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