bluesypicky said:
capnjuan said:
Don't mess with me or I'll bump TonyT's legendary 'This Thread's About Nothing' (that went for 25 pages or so ...) or Frono's 'Post Count' thread ... another LTG Hall of Famer (Shamer?) that hit 30+ pages :evil: :lol:
No no!!! The one where we (or should I say Y'all...) were discussing the worthiness of NH Guild at their current prices!!!
:lol: :lol: Okay; I'm holding my nose just in case you bump it. :evil:
I thought this 'Finishes' thread was about the best group effort we've ever had on any subject. We had Professor Ridgemont from the Chemistry Dept, Carl channeling Frank
(ie Laine) Ford and Taylor Guitars, and LTG's own Lab Technician/advocate Curt contributing to one of the more substantive (although windy) threads.
I thought the discussion on physical properties was pretty good. When it came to propensity to fracture ... well ... the relatively small number of guitars with UV-cured finish and widespread fractures pretty much spoke for itself. When the discussion focused on tone ... about all anybody could say was was that NCL had properties which were more likely to lead to good tone ... thin to start with and getting thinner with age ... but I also thought the preference for NCL was also colored by people's reverence for the traditional approach ... NCL and dove-tail necks v. UV-curing and bolt-ons.
Without paying
private eyes to conduct A/B double-blind listening tests, there no science to be had on the subject of which sounds better ... not to mention that 'better' can't be defined. There's a guy named
Ethan Winer who is pretty well-known in the audio world. It's his opinion that much of what we think we hear is a function of memory and expectations. While this thread was alive and people were singing the praises of NCL's tone properties, I was tempted to throw some of his stuff in.
I mean ... could Winer be right? Could it be that die-hard NCL fans wouldn't be able to distinguish NCL from UV-cured in a blind test? And that all they were hearing was their memories and expectations; it must be good if it's NCL? I thought bring that up would be the same as throwing the Baby Ruth in the punchbowl ... so I didn't ... then.
Anyway, unless you think you have to, you might let the NH Guild thing pass ... please ...