Crusoe Posted May 29 Posted May 29 Not what you think...yikes!! “Well this is a first…”: Guns N’ Roses guitarist Richard Fortus says it was so hot in Saudi Arabia that his pickups melted | MusicRadar
EdwardMarlowe Posted May 30 Posted May 30 Eeps. Be interesting to hear what it sounded like.... if he'd played it anyhow and it had sounded good, the web wold be full or people arguing about how best to melt the wax in your pickups, and what tonal difference it made to do it with them still in the guitar, whether to let the wax stay on the sound board because mojo tonez.... 1
Kiwi Posted May 31 Posted May 31 I can believe it. It gets just as hot as Saudi where I live although perhaps not as often. Any guitar left outside either direct in blazing sun or inside a container or case in direct sun is going to heat up to 40-50 degrees easily. 1
Crusoe Posted June 2 Author Posted June 2 On 30/05/2025 at 12:23, EdwardMarlowe said: Eeps. Be interesting to hear what it sounded like.... if he'd played it anyhow and it had sounded good, the web wold be full or people arguing about how best to melt the wax in your pickups, and what tonal difference it made to do it with them still in the guitar, whether to let the wax stay on the sound board because mojo tonez.... Pick up manufacturers charging more for special tone wax 1
Kiwi Posted June 4 Posted June 4 On 02/06/2025 at 20:55, Crusoe said: Pick up manufacturers charging more for special tone wax Steady on, it's not like some of them need extra reasons to slap a premium on a five quid set of parts. 2
EdwardMarlowe Posted 4 hours ago Posted 4 hours ago Wouldn't surprise me. The older I get, the more I realise 99% of the electric guitar market is about selling branding an intangibles far over the actual, physical product. It does seem to vary by location, though: players in the US on average still seem to be much more likely to be emotionally invested in the idea that a guitar made in the USA *must* be superior, or is somehow otherwise "the real thing". Which I suppose shouldn't be surprising given that's where the electric guitar boom started, and so there's a sense of "loss" that those aren't dominant in the market any longer - as opposed to being "only" another import product as they are for us in the UK.
