Re: i never realized how stupid of a design the strat has until...
I am ok with that aftermarket thang but, don't say me that it's equally easy to swap the neck in a bolt-on, set neck or neck thru!!!!.
I NEVER said or even implied this, you are intentionally twisting my statements so as to support your arguments and I am in no way amused.
The fact of the matter is that NONE of what you are talking is something ANY manufacturer cares about. Once the product is sold and we are paid, you can do whatever the **** you like with it. We couldn`t care less until it`s coming back for some reason. If you break the neck, nobody cares, except the person getting paid to replace it. Fact.
For the last time, Aftermarket Neck swapping is NOT a ****ing design feature, it is purely a side benefit of a design made to be assembled by people that have no idea how to build a guitar the traditional way. No More, no less. Until the late 70s, the only real way to benefit from what you continue to tout as a design feature was to buy MULTIPLE GUITARS and swap the necks around, voiding the warranty on every single one in the process.
Guitars are designed to be PLAYED, nit assembled and disassembled 15x a day like a fricking erector set. For what you suggest to be a true design feature, the guitar would have to have been specifically designed as a way to practice inserting and removing screws into wood, not as a musical instrument.
Do you buy a car specifically for it`s ability to damage concrete walls? Or guitar strings specifically for their use as a garrotte? Or a Soldering iron for the capacity it has to commit arson? Or do you actually use them for the INTENDED purpose they were designed for, transportation, stringing guitars, and soldering?
Until you understand this, which I am now trying to explain for the third and final time, the discussion is pointless. A Design feature is by pure definition NOT something that goes ENTIRELY unnoticed and uncared for 30 years, and then suddenly becomes important when people a start to intentionally mutilate and abuse their own property. That is however exactly what you continue to state.
I guess you didn't put your cup holder over you cup after the third beer!. :alcoholic
I think rather that you continue to not understand that NOBODY cares what you or anyone else do to their product after you purchase it. Do you think Coca Cola cares whether you drink it straight, mix it with Jack, or pour it over your mother`s head? No, as long as you`re buying Coca Cola.
But to be honest, I don`t think you know me well enough to make statements like that. You are slowly starting to cross lines from which there is no return.
I am not talking about the possibilities while building the guitar (that's obvious) but, AFTER you have the guitar.
And that is where the disconnect lies, becasue neither Fender nor I give a rat`s ass about what happens to a guitar after it`s sold and we got paid. Unless you`re paying us to do the modification or something went south that was clearly my /their fault like uneven frets or a misaligned bridge.
If I don't like my modern-C 9.5 radius neck, I can swap it MYSELF (and that means any single man can do it) in 2 minutes with a soft-V one, with mapple instead rosewood fretboard, and/or 7.5 radius, If I prefer it. I'd just source the neck anywhere and problem solved.
But that STILL does not in any way mean that THAT was the reason it was done, which is what you continue to incessantly state and or imply, which is factually complete horse****.
To do the same with an LP (just an example) is just "slightly" :laugh2: harder and... errr.... in a neck thru... I guess it makes no sense :18:
I see no need to to answer for statements twisted into my posts by others. Nor to continue this discussion at this time. You either understand what I am saying or sou do not, it is not rocket science, and we are quickly moving away from the sort of respectful discussion that I am willing to partake in.
This thread is dead to me.
utahere: outahere.
