[m dailey (milod)]

Hey...

AS far as I'm concerned... I'll happily test any of 'em. <grin>

Seriously though, I honestly worry about how these guitars are treated weather-wise before they get to a destination.

I think too that improved logistics may not be the best for guitars, perhaps worst for laminated ones soon after they're made. Even an inspection in a store or as Sweetwater claims to do before they ship a guitar ain't necessarily going to see the end results of the radical temp/humidity changes that could easily take months or even a cupla years to really show up.

For example, right now it's to be -25 F, minus 30 or so C, and imagine what that might do even with short exposure to a nice new laminated guitar right outa the factory in a humid climate?

Now move the guitar a cupla times through temp shifts of some 40-50 degrees C or some 70 degrees F such as we've had just the past week where I live, and I can't imagine anything much worse for any guitar, especially a laminated one.

Figure the bond, even the wood itself, is being slaughtered from inside itself by the moisture freezing and thawing. If it's weakened, it's gonna give up at some point before it should.

OTOH, take a guitar from Bozeman at the minus OMG! temps and send it to a warehouse in KC, it ain't such a a shock to the system 'cuz it's dryer, even with some radical temp changes.

Ditto, btw, any other similar instrument that doesn't suffer major temp changes like that; and I'll wager it'll be more resistant to internal damage if it ain't at high humidities at low elevations such as Memphis.

m

[r akers (wrick)]

-25,does the pipeline from Alaska pass through there? burrr.The shippers take little precaution either,my last purchase from a online big box store gave no notice to when they would ship and came home to find it sitting on my porch in -3 temps. Have to wonder how much that had to do with my issues as the replacements were dropped off without notice in the dead of summer baking on the porch in the sun.It is fixed now,but three years of grinding your teeth down and left holding the bag,damn near ended up in a padded room.Want a ES 335 but think I will look around for one that has been around for awhile that has seen some climate changes and held up.Feel a headache coming on.lol

[m dailey (milod)]

Yeah, temps are hard on laminates of any sort.

"No" to Alaska pipeline, except for the weather. <grin> But there is a pipeline from Canada in the eastern part of the state, and we anticipate one from Alberta coming through my county in the next cupla years. Better than from Venezuela or Saudi.

m

[G Gort (Bassbuddy)]

Any with P90's!!!! You just can't have too many guitars.

[J Ulch (DetroitBlues)]

Its very simple for me. Gibson Les Paul Custom in Ebony with P-100's.