Guildedagain
Enlightened Member
Probably more of a retorical question, and summer is a challenging time to keep up on cleaning corrosive sweat off the guitars you play, but my ultimate pet peeve is when a buddy one of your bandmembers doesn't have a guitar that's worth a poop so he's playing one of yours, and as soon as you're done jamming or actually rehearsing, bolts for whatever people do when they're trying to avoid cleaning a guitar...
Even though I love the genuinely worn and distressed look of a vintage guitar, I cannot abide any fingerprints on them, anywhere, so I don't tough the guitars like that, just by the neck and the strap button. These are sometimes fragile old finishes that can do without the need for constant cleaning, there's only so much finish on a guitar.
So when I hand someone a guitar, I will be like "ok, please just handle it like this, please don't funken grab it by the body all over the place, don't touch the body" and sure as shit, they touch it in ways you never thought off.
It's really weird, trying to get people to respect your stuff. Like asking people to wash their hands first. Hell, I don't even care about zippers or buckles, but the grossness on peoples hands can be so bad that I actually had strings that were black after somebody played a set on one of my guitar, so fn gross, not to mention what it does to tone. The whole aspect of that much DNA left by someone else can just be gross.
I think it was James Jamerson who said that his LaBella flatwounds didn't sound good until they got wiped down with chicken grease, but unfortunately what sounds great on bass doesn't do anything for guitar tone.
One thing that's become a superstition with me is don't ever hand someone your actual guitar, not if those strings sound good. The person playing them will ruin them, they won't sound the same afterwards.
Here's an example of a Les Paul Custom, unreal finger grime around the pickguard, wtf was he doing to it, I supposed touching it everywhere that could be seen to spite me. I literally sold this guitar because this same bandmember did this to it over and over.
Last we played together, I told him, go head and play your $100 Luna acoustic electric with 5 dead strings on it. I'm tired of cleaning after you.
The longer you wait to clean this stuff, the harder it is to remove, and eventually will etch the finish.
I'm queasy just looking at this, ugh...
Dunlop strap locks.
Even though I love the genuinely worn and distressed look of a vintage guitar, I cannot abide any fingerprints on them, anywhere, so I don't tough the guitars like that, just by the neck and the strap button. These are sometimes fragile old finishes that can do without the need for constant cleaning, there's only so much finish on a guitar.
So when I hand someone a guitar, I will be like "ok, please just handle it like this, please don't funken grab it by the body all over the place, don't touch the body" and sure as shit, they touch it in ways you never thought off.
It's really weird, trying to get people to respect your stuff. Like asking people to wash their hands first. Hell, I don't even care about zippers or buckles, but the grossness on peoples hands can be so bad that I actually had strings that were black after somebody played a set on one of my guitar, so fn gross, not to mention what it does to tone. The whole aspect of that much DNA left by someone else can just be gross.
I think it was James Jamerson who said that his LaBella flatwounds didn't sound good until they got wiped down with chicken grease, but unfortunately what sounds great on bass doesn't do anything for guitar tone.
One thing that's become a superstition with me is don't ever hand someone your actual guitar, not if those strings sound good. The person playing them will ruin them, they won't sound the same afterwards.
Here's an example of a Les Paul Custom, unreal finger grime around the pickguard, wtf was he doing to it, I supposed touching it everywhere that could be seen to spite me. I literally sold this guitar because this same bandmember did this to it over and over.
Last we played together, I told him, go head and play your $100 Luna acoustic electric with 5 dead strings on it. I'm tired of cleaning after you.
The longer you wait to clean this stuff, the harder it is to remove, and eventually will etch the finish.
I'm queasy just looking at this, ugh...
Dunlop strap locks.
