What 'Cha Playin Tonight?

[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.