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You do know that strings can only go so low before they are unplayable, right? PLEK'd doesn't mean "low action". "Low action" is what people do to their guitars thinking they are doing someting cool and great when in fact they are not. rct

This past June I was in Milwaukee and cruised Cream City and sat down with three Yankee Breedloves because I don't really get to see them here in cosmopolitan bleeding edge southern New Jerseytuckybama. So they had two used and one new or nearly new. I took each one one at a time up to the sofa room next to the Gretsch wall and tried them. meh. rct

Asking a question that one doesn't want to hear the answer to. The bane of the internet. rct

Guitars are perfect amalgamations of small imperfections, and not just Leo's, all of them. Even Martin. Don't worry about it. rct

It really is! I'm always happy to introduce people to him. rct

I love Ludovico with all my heart, the greatest living composer. When this music plays I can't breathe, the longest yet shortest, most meaningful but humanly simplest 5 minutes ever recorded. This is the first I've ever mentioned it, I'm afraid if others find out it will disappear. I hope at the end this is what is playing as we go. This is why we play. rct

I think if you are practiced it is that you don't notice a difficulty between the two because you are strong enough for the hardest to play. Fender/Gibson players have to be strong enough to maul their Teles, but maintain control and discipline while playing the "easier" Les Paul, they don't notice any difference after a while they are all just guitars. rct

God, wherever he or she is, whatever form he or she takes, damn you for showing me that. It burnses, oh how it burnses. rct

Hey that is not a bad day in my world and I'm not even You! Awesome! rct

I'm not buying one until they have a triple action truss rod. rct

Moving trusses back and forth, filing frets, dodging buzzes all over the neck. All symptoms of YER STRINGS ARE TOO LOW. When you think your strings are perfect, they are usually too low, and most guitar players just can't get through their heads and hands that lifting your strings actually makes it easier to play accurately. rct

No, I don't. If the tuning system of your guitar is leaving it out of tune after tuning with it, I'd suggest it wasn't the weight or any sort of Sonic sponge. I could put a scarf, 4 Marlbls, a Boss clip on tuner, and a capo up there on my skinny neck-ed SG and not have these issues. I'm not breaking your balls as much as I'm trying to prevent future repeating of this as though it were facts we've all known all our lives. They aren't facts, nothing up there that doesn't touch the fingerboard side of the strings does anything at all to the tunedness of a guitar. You must hate string trees and strings though body! rct

More drama than anything else. Barely enough to make it dissonant, so not even like a tremolo bar. Heavy tuners don't make the headstock lash like a fishing rod and they don't cause mushy, out of tune chords, no matter how many times or ways you say it, blaming the tuners is just plain wrong. rct

No, I never bought the FatHead that was popular. I did have a brass nut on a couple of guitars, it did me no good. I would go back to the original post and your original claim that having "heavy" tuners up on the stock cause mushy, out of tune chords. I've never heard anyone say that ever, and I've never had a guitar with heavy tuners cause such a thing. I think you are searching for some kind of thing that is going to net you the best sound ever, and it has to be light. Trust me on this, play until you get sick to your stomach, get sick, play some more. That way you won't care what anything weighs, you'll make everything sound as great as it can. Some of the greatest sounds ever recorded were made on some of the lightest guitars ever made. Some of the rest of the greatest sounds ever recorded were made on bricks. The rest of the sounds were made on something in between. In the end, the weight doesn't matter one bit. rct

I've used the heaviest t00ners money can buy, in fact, in the 70's we liked all that weight up there. In all of my life with guitars I've never heard anyone complain that the machines caused their neck to be like a fishing rod up there and caused mushy out of tune chords. rct

We had a fabulous few days up at Isle Royale, couple days in Copper Harbor, and a really nice drive down the state through some of the great architecture of Detroit and out. rct

A yooper ehy. rct

1. Go with, stay, hold onto. Do NOT let anyone tell you different, go to another vet if they won't let you be with him/her. We held onto Mowgli, our 17 year old Bermudian cat when we had to do that, we wouldn't have it any other way. I could not let these little beings out of this world without knowing we, or one of us, was there. 2. Can't speak for dogs, we are cat peoples. We have an excellent sitter that comes in and gets the mail and all that, and she loves Ichabod and she loved Prudence like we did. We go on stupid long trips around the country, so we have to pay somebody to look after the animals, why not the house too? We can't now, but we know we gotta have some grrrl cat in our lives, if not soon, then immediately after we retire in two years. rct

October 17th last year we lost our darling 10 year old Prudence very suddenly to her weakened, bad from the start heart. We miss that cat to the point of physical sensation, I go to my amps and guitars in their cases on the stands that she would walk across, I reach for her, I listen for her at night. Goddammit we miss her. The silver tri in front: rct

It really isn't, especially at the big retailers, especially the last 25 years. The problem is that there is an expectation of higher value applied to anything that is even remotely not what was readily available, therefore "rare". rct

It is no help I'm sure, but late 90's Sam Ash had Black Top/Light Back and Red Top/Light Back standards made for them, called them 58 Specials or something, after a couple that were believed to have existed back then and that were documented in one of the many Les Paul books. One of the Black Tops that I almost bought had double cremes in it. I don't know where this idea that only Dimarzio could do double creme or double white came from, but it just isn't true, both Gibson and Duncan have always done them. At the same time I was in there looking at this sweet Red Top/Light Back with gold hardware but gold covered pickups, something they definitely did not do in 1958 that anyone has documented, I came across TWO Les Paul Classics, made for Sam Ash, Ebony top, Ebony back, all gold hardware including full size big key Gold Grovers at the pointy end, and double white or double cream early '57 Classics. So that was four really odd guitars for Sam Ash in the store at one time. Try to find anything out about any of them and you'll be in the same spot, they just don't really keep all that great track of them I guess. Good luck with it. If it's a great guitar don't worry about the relative rarity of it, just use it and enjoy it! rct

You are the only one with this problem, you will just have to work it out. rct

Greco! That's another name, with Kent. Yes, cheap alternatives. When we were in 6th grade we had Kents and Silvertones and stuff, and we couldn't wait to get "real" guitars! rct

It did happen. Smith in his comprehensive Leo biography, Bacon in one of his Fender books mentions the actual matter. Leo didn't want to, Gibson was doing it. Forrest convinced Leo to put his name to it too. The three or four named companies were served. Some guitars arrived after that in San Francisco and some of each type Fender and Gibson were confiscated and had the headstocks sawn off of them in order to demonstrate penalty. That was it. The rest of us were, for the most part, blissfully unaware because nobody was fawning over Love Rocks and Ibanezii. My wife of 35 years does not play the guitar, but when she sees the later 80s or 90s Bugs Bunny on tevee she still calls him the Ibanez Bugs Bunny. THAT is how strong the "I" word is to Deptford kids that grew up guitar! rct

This is a quote from you: "Let's not forget ibanez made Gibson copies so good that Gibson sued them." That did not happen. You can not sue someone because they make good copies of your protected work. PERIOD. You sue somebody because they are copying your headstock shape, your logo, your script, the things that identify your guitar. Let's not forget that as soon as Ibanez, Tokai, whomever, as soon as they were served that they could not duplicate the big American guitars they suddenly stopped making great strats and teles and les pauls. Why? Why is it that if they couldn't look just like them they wouldn't make them? Why is that? Because they weren't that great to begin with. I have no doubt they were good guitars, I remember them very well even though I never used one, I was in bands using my Teles and Strats and Les Pauls right next to Love Rocks and the Ibanez with the I script that looked exactly like the F in Fender. They may have been good guitars, but they weren't so good they kept making them after they couldn't duplicate the originals. By the time I was married in 1980 nobody around here, and that was a lot of guitar players, was using them at all. rct