I'm developing a really big pet peeve about people who spend 10 minutes replacing a pup in their guitar and call it their "build".
I spend 4-6 months planning, designing, hand picking and buying slabs of wood, making custom templates, cutting, laminating, gluing, drilling, routing, binding, painting, finishing, wiring, etc. actually "building" a guitar. I feel that it is a little degrading and devaluing of all my effort (and others who actually build guitars) to think of such menial processes as changing pups, or rewiring a switch, or repainting a guitar, or even putting together a kit as "building" a guitar (well I guess it would be appropriate to say "building a kit"). I feel, like Rodney Dangerfield, in that "I don't get no respect".
Don't get me wrong. I'm not intending to take anything away from those who step out of their comfort zones and tackle the sometimes huge tasks of modding or upgrading their guitars or trying to create intricate wiring schemes. Been there, done that. And I humbly appreciate all the help and advice I've received from many forum members. One of our purposes here on this forum is to encourage them to get started and to help them along the way wherever we can. And as you know, this is something that I've been doing here for quite a while. We forum members look forward to the opportunity to teach others and even to correcting their errors and/or misconceptions that they've picked up along the way. In taking that opportunity/responsibility seriously, am I being overly sensitive or OCD about this? "Correcting" is not only important, but sometimes necessary for the sake of true communication, eg: referring to a "split" as a "tap". So, is that what I'm doing now? Correcting someone's misuse of the term "building"? Or am I negating their narcissism in thinking they have built their guitar with a pup change?
Anyone else feel like a "build" is a build. And anything less is a "mod" or an "upgrade" or a "remodel" or a "etc"?
OK, I'm ready to get down from my soapbox and listen. Go ahead and be hard on me or slam me if you want, but you better be thick-skinned enough and prepared to take it right back because, to be fair, you can expect me to reply in kind.
Nevertheless, ALL comments are accepted and appreciated.
I spend 4-6 months planning, designing, hand picking and buying slabs of wood, making custom templates, cutting, laminating, gluing, drilling, routing, binding, painting, finishing, wiring, etc. actually "building" a guitar. I feel that it is a little degrading and devaluing of all my effort (and others who actually build guitars) to think of such menial processes as changing pups, or rewiring a switch, or repainting a guitar, or even putting together a kit as "building" a guitar (well I guess it would be appropriate to say "building a kit"). I feel, like Rodney Dangerfield, in that "I don't get no respect".
Don't get me wrong. I'm not intending to take anything away from those who step out of their comfort zones and tackle the sometimes huge tasks of modding or upgrading their guitars or trying to create intricate wiring schemes. Been there, done that. And I humbly appreciate all the help and advice I've received from many forum members. One of our purposes here on this forum is to encourage them to get started and to help them along the way wherever we can. And as you know, this is something that I've been doing here for quite a while. We forum members look forward to the opportunity to teach others and even to correcting their errors and/or misconceptions that they've picked up along the way. In taking that opportunity/responsibility seriously, am I being overly sensitive or OCD about this? "Correcting" is not only important, but sometimes necessary for the sake of true communication, eg: referring to a "split" as a "tap". So, is that what I'm doing now? Correcting someone's misuse of the term "building"? Or am I negating their narcissism in thinking they have built their guitar with a pup change?
Anyone else feel like a "build" is a build. And anything less is a "mod" or an "upgrade" or a "remodel" or a "etc"?
OK, I'm ready to get down from my soapbox and listen. Go ahead and be hard on me or slam me if you want, but you better be thick-skinned enough and prepared to take it right back because, to be fair, you can expect me to reply in kind.
Nevertheless, ALL comments are accepted and appreciated.
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