What 'Cha Playin Tonight?

[Big Flannel]

I'd love to, but I have zero experience with it.

[Snake Aces]

I'd love to, but I have zero experience with it.

I hear that! I have always wanted a nice ceruse finish on an ash body but I have no experience with it either. I have read advice from luthiers and talked to a carpenter friend of mine who make it sound so easy. If I still lived in the USA with my tools and nice big garage space I might attempt it but here I have an apartment with a tiny balcony. I am not comfortable with the idea of attempting a finish here. 

[DreX]

While the ceruse finish may look good (actually not to me) it is the worst finish for tone. There is a reason why manufacturers sand their guitars smooth it is not for esthetics. Uneven grooves in the guitar can give uneven/negative residual feedback. This can be quite a detriment to your tone. People need to research these mods before applying them to their instruments and destroying any possibility of the instrument ever sounded decent again. American guitar makers will build anything the public is stupid enough to buy. That is the only reason why you see guitars with these finishes hanging on guitar store walls.

[GoldenVulture]

I want a graph of that , oherwise I'm not convinced. that they're that stupid. That's it , I want a stupity scaled graph.

[Snake Aces]

While the ceruse finish may look good (actually not to me) it is the worst finish for tone. There is a reason why manufacturers sand their guitars smooth it is not for esthetics. Uneven grooves in the guitar can give uneven/negative residual feedback. This can be quite a detriment to your tone. People need to research these mods before applying them to their instruments and destroying any possibility of the instrument ever sounded decent again. American guitar makers will build anything the public is stupid enough to buy. That is the only reason why you see guitars with these finishes hanging on guitar store walls.

There is zero truth to this and it has zero credible evidence to back it up. 

The guitar I own that has by far the best tone has no grain filler and barely any final coating on a chambered black korina body. Everywhere I play that guitar and every guitar tech and luthier that touches it always has two things to say:

1. What the fuck were you thinking? That is ugly! You know you can sand it down and re-finish it. (They say this while holding and rotating the guitar/inspecting the visuals of the guitar but without playing it).

But then, after they see it... they play it.

2. Holy shit man! That guitar is so resonant! Of all your guitars that one feels and sounds the best! Maybe you shouldn't change the finish after all...

You see, sometimes good wood is just good wood. And sometimes wood likes to breathe a bit. By not sealing the guitar with a shitload of finish and filler the guitar has aged like no other guitar I have ever owned. That specific guitar likes to breathe.

[DreX]

Of all your guitars that one feels and sounds the best!

I guess you are missing the point. The luthier isn't trying to tell you the guitar sounds good. He is saying the others sound worse. I have studied these finishes I know what I am talking about.

[Snake Aces]

I guess you are missing the point. The luthier isn't trying to tell you the guitar sounds good. He is saying the others sound worse. I have studied these finishes I know what I am talking about.

This is a joke right?? As in this is a prank account taking on the familiar persona of the character we all know and have grown so fond of. 

[Big Flannel]

This is a joke right?? As in this is a prank account taking on the familiar persona of the character we all know and have grown so fond of. 

Does this seem like a place for jokes?

[FORMULA73]

Dis bitch...

[FORMULA73]