ToddStock wrote:
No self-respecting guitar should have to suffer for a luthier's shortcomings in selecting attractive peghead script. Show that you care about this issue - please join "Save the Embarrassingly Labeled and Logo'd Guitars" today.
For your contribution of just $60, you'll know that someone, somewhere will be replacing poorly conceived, butt-ugly head plates with handsome, finely wrought pieces of art, destined to be enjoyed for decades by player or listener alike.
For just $30 more, we'll enroll you in another worthy charity, the "Side Purfling Rescue Society", which helps custom guitars without side purflings coexist with their less trim-challenged peers.
Where do I send the check?
Actually, I think there's a good point here. I remember taking a fairly early guitar to a fairly high end music store. The owner looked it over very carefully (never even plucked a string
![[headinwall]](./images/smilies/headbangwalluf8.gif "Mad")
) and after picking a couple of very small nits (like one bridge pin sticking up a bit higher than the others), he finally said something like....."actually, there's nothing wonky about it". He meant it (and I took it) as a pretty big compliment. He went on to explain that it takes most builders awhile to work out all the visual kinks and come up with a unified design where nothing jumps out as out of place. I had already come to the same conclusion....
Like it or not, most sighted people do think and hear with their eyes first. Not that everyone has the same taste. Some like spare, some gaudy. But there is probably more consensus about a sense of unity where all the parts are at least in harmony with each other.
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