When you started talking about the plastic affecting the tone, that’s where you lost me. Maybe if you’re playing it unplugged you might have a point, but how often are you playing a strat unplugged. But please put your money where your mouth and do a test. Use the same guitar with the same pickups with the only difference being a pick guard. Compare the sounds on a spectrogram because technology doesn’t lie. It’s fine to like the feel of natural wood vs a plastic pick guard, but talking about it like it drastically changes the tone when we have countless albums of strats sounding amazing, with and without a plastic pick guard, seems a but exaggerated. But please prove me wrong.
I’m really only coming from an aesthetic point of view because I agree you’re not going to hear little stuff like that. Playing it unplugged is how i hear most guitars because I’m looking for fret buzz or other unwanted noise so it’s hard for me to not think of strats having that plastic reverberate every time i play one. Look I’m not saying you’re wrong but just as a thought process i wanted to ask the question why guitars need so much plastic. What’s the benefit other than cost savings? How are you benefiting your look and tone? Can there be a better alternative that can positively affect your look and tone? If not, fine. If you don’t care, fine. It’s definitely not my thing.
@@erikguitardesigner you did say it changes the tone in the video when you said you can hear it. I get not liking plastic but you need to get at least prove what you’re saying because that is a much more interesting video than you just talking about it, and one I would watch all the way through. It takes more time and effort into making those videos, but it will give people,like me, a bit more understanding where you’re coming from.
Can not agree with you more. I have purchased countless guitars from pawn shops. So basically cheep guitars. I take them all apart , sand them down , sometimes burn the bodies. I have started removing as much plastic as possible , pick guards and cavity covers and make metal ones. The guitar coms alive when you do this. The super thick plastic paint suffocates the wood from naturally vibrating and by adding metal pick guards and covers it helps the vibration of the entire guitar.
spot on - could not say more - converting all my gtrs to non plastic - challenge!!!
Love it!
When you started talking about the plastic affecting the tone, that’s where you lost me. Maybe if you’re playing it unplugged you might have a point, but how often are you playing a strat unplugged. But please put your money where your mouth and do a test. Use the same guitar with the same pickups with the only difference being a pick guard. Compare the sounds on a spectrogram because technology doesn’t lie. It’s fine to like the feel of natural wood vs a plastic pick guard, but talking about it like it drastically changes the tone when we have countless albums of strats sounding amazing, with and without a plastic pick guard, seems a but exaggerated. But please prove me wrong.
I’m really only coming from an aesthetic point of view because I agree you’re not going to hear little stuff like that. Playing it unplugged is how i hear most guitars because I’m looking for fret buzz or other unwanted noise so it’s hard for me to not think of strats having that plastic reverberate every time i play one. Look I’m not saying you’re wrong but just as a thought process i wanted to ask the question why guitars need so much plastic. What’s the benefit other than cost savings? How are you benefiting your look and tone? Can there be a better alternative that can positively affect your look and tone? If not, fine. If you don’t care, fine. It’s definitely not my thing.
@@erikguitardesigner you did say it changes the tone in the video when you said you can hear it. I get not liking plastic but you need to get at least prove what you’re saying because that is a much more interesting video than you just talking about it, and one I would watch all the way through. It takes more time and effort into making those videos, but it will give people,like me, a bit more understanding where you’re coming from.
Can not agree with you more. I have purchased countless guitars from pawn shops. So basically cheep guitars. I take them all apart , sand them down , sometimes burn the bodies. I have started removing as much plastic as possible , pick guards and cavity covers and make metal ones. The guitar coms alive when you do this. The super thick plastic paint suffocates the wood from naturally vibrating and by adding metal pick guards and covers it helps the vibration of the entire guitar.
That's how you do it!
Also the plastic look makes the guitar look suuuuuper cheap. That's why I think reduced guitars look so nice is bc u can see the wood
Relic not reduce
Agreed!