Electronic Component Quality? (Guitar Guts)

[p0pNfr3sh]

you all have made good points. When I was a teen I had the luck of my mother finding a man that loved to collect and play guitars. I have had the opportunity to play 3,000 dollar les pauls, all original 1969 stratocaster to gems like a 250 dollar squire MIJ super sonic. I once asked my stepfather why he owned a MIJ reissue telecaster, and not an American made he swore by the MIJ. You also have to understand that it is always a good idea to think that everything you buy is a potential investment, I'm not saying that I buy s@#* and put it in the closet. but when you spend hundreds of dollars on something you don't want to treat it like a toaster, and throw it away when it is busted. My main guitar is an 1988 strat plus that has seen better days, but you better believe in 2038 when that s@#* is fifty years old its going to be worth more than the $350 dollars I payed for it. America is not the end all be all of quality, its just cheaper to pay a eight year old kid in a foreign country than a union member in the USA.

I just thought that tube guys believe in all sorts of silly things, like the fact that carbon composite resistors (when get old are a pain in the ass) have better tone than metal film. Or true bypass, analog to digital, tube to value state amplifiers. to each there own when it comes to tone, but its what works best for your own sound, or who's blues tone your trying to emulate. I live in a city where I have seen Musicians Friend open a scratch and dent store, and single handily take every decent guitar shop down in five years time just to close it down them self's; people love deals and will buy anything for the right price. LORD KNOWS I HAVE.