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Phil McKnight
The Know youw Gear Podcast. The Know youw Gear Podcast is brought to you by Patreon members Channel members and viewers who like and subscribe. Thank you for making this possible. Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Know youw gear podcast. Episode 417, Father's Day weekend. This will be. This will be fun. I think it'll be a fun show. I hope everybody's excited and. And what else? So if you're excited, that's all as I refresh my screen. Okay, so a lot of stuff to go over first, some announcements that are probably pretty important. The first being that we do have a winner for the American limited edition Fender Telecaster. I put it in the description down below. Which. Which is the winner is. I'm just looking to make sure I have it for you guys. It's Rick Shanley from New Mexico. Now this is the interesting part. He was the second winner because the first one didn't respond. We pulled a random winner again and we sent him an email and he responded. So Guitar center already sent out his brand new $2,000 limited edition Telecaster. And Sean is going to send him out a shirt soon enough so he'll have a know your gear shirt to wear with that guitar. So thank you all for entering that and thank Guitar center for giving away a $2,000 USA limited edition guitar from Fender. That's pretty cool. We have a lot of subjects to talk about. A lot of topics. And I'll just jump into them. Why not? Let's just get into them. We'll just move around the show a little bit. All right, this was. This one was gonna make me laugh. So I'm gonna talk about this one first. Um, let's see. I say that and then it's. It's not here. Oh, here it is, right here. Came from Michael. Michael says, hey, here's a suggestion. Remember how Phil would drink bands beer during live shows? So, yeah, for a couple years, I would do this thing where I would get an alcohol beverage from like a band like Iron Maiden and have beer and stuff. And he says. I say, he brings that back. Except for drinking different Kool Aid colors and gravy. And it's not gonna happen. So not gonna drink Kool Aid. But this ties into two things. Since it is Father's Day weekend. What did I get for Father's Day? Well, I'm gonna show you what I got for Father's Day. And I'm gonna show you why I'm still not gonna. I'm not gonna drink gravy. So let me Just show you this. I asked Shawna for this and she made this. And we let the patrons see it this week. It is somewhere. Where is this? Oh, here it is. I had her make me this shirt. No gravy, please. This tone is pure. I don't know why. This just made me laugh. There was a lot of gravy jokes, a lot of gravy comments. And so I said, hey, Shawna, will you make me a shirt that says no gravy please? And this tone is pure. She made me this shirt. So I get this shirt. And anyone who wants to buy this shirt, the link is in the description. It's a limited edition run for we're going to do 14 days, but it started a couple days ago. So basically, think there's like, you know, 12 days left or something like that. So anyone interested in getting themselves a no gravy, please this tone is pure shirt, you could do that. And if you love gravy and you hate tone, well, then you don't get the shirt. Don't. Don't buy it. But I'm not. I don't know why this makes me laugh so much. It just does. So there you go. You could buy this shirt for a limited time, help support the channel and. Or not. Maybe. Maybe we'll make a pro gravy shirt. I don't know if this is an anti gravy shirt. I wouldn't say anti gravy, but maybe we'll make a more pro gravy shirt. Whoa. Never seen that do that before. Okay, just move my screen out of my way and put another screen in my face. Okay, what else? We have guitar of the week, which has got an interesting different thing to it. And let's go to our first subject. And the first subject was this one. There's a bunch, actually. So let me just hit one. This one's from Fred. Fred says, hey, when you hang a mic on an amp speaker, it's misleading, okay? The amp will sound different to the player, who is at least several feet away from the amp. Okay. Why can't you use a room mic instead? Because that is the way the player will hear it unless they are using headphones. So there's a couple things going there. I guess at the heart of this question, it's kind of like when you make, I'm assuming, making content, because I don't know what the reference would be for on stage. You know, if you're on stage, you obviously you mic up the amp. That's how they do it on stage. And then The PA speakers are replicating what the mic is hearing from the amp, which is right by the cone of the speaker. Sometimes you have two microphones, one up on the speaker and one a little further back. That's a real common thing to do with amplifiers. In YouTube reviews, I can't tell you how everyone else does it. I can tell you how I've done it pretty much since day one. No, not since day one. Since, let's say, more professional time when I switch from using my phone. I used to use a Galaxy phone for the first year or two or three, I don't remember with interface, but even then I was probably using two mics. But anyways, the way I do it is that we mic the speaker cabinet, the speaker itself, and then we have a room mic, and they're blended based on what it felt like or sounded like in the room. That's what I'm trying to match. So there's a lot more going on these days. Now. It is dark in the room today. So you guys know I can make it brighter, but not right now. I can't edit the stuff. But anyways, so back to the room and the room mics. The way it's done now is I'm trying to capture the most accurate sound it sounds like in the room. And that's what I'm after because I'm trying to get you to hear kind of like an idea of what it sounds like. The thing that I find strange is when people, especially since I've been doing this for so long and I've done thousands of videos, I like when people go, oh, it doesn't sound like that in real life. It's too compressed. Or it's this. Or, you know, look, whether you're listening to it through an iPhone, speaker or a tv or, you know, your computer, obviously all of those things are going to change how it sounds. The difference would be the same difference if you listen to your favorite album. So take a band that you love, an artist that you love, listen to their album through your tv, listen through their album through a nice stereo, listen to their album through your phone, listen through their album through your computer. Obviously you're going to hear different, you know, amounts of bass, different amounts of high end, a little bit more top end. You know, it'll sound different, but generally it's the same. The reason I say this is when somebody says, oh, it doesn't sound like that. Somebody says, oh, YouTube sound. You know, for guitar reference, let's say they go, hey, I heard a guitar, but on YouTube. It does me no good because I don't have a reference of it. And here's what's funny. I'm as. I'm recognized over this last, let's say, almost decade. I'm recognized now as much by my voice as my face. Like, I've. I've been recognized in places by my voice. I've been at the NAMM show talking, and somebody came in the corner and they thought, oh my gosh, I thought that was you. I heard you. And I've been recognized at a grocery store from someone who. Who literally never watched any videos ever of me, only listened to the podcast and she was like. And she even said, I don't know what to think of it. But she's like, hey, do you have. Are you the Know youw Gear podcast guy? And I said, yeah. And she goes, I didn't picture you to look like that. I was like, I don't know what that means. I didn't say that. But I was thinking. But anyways, my point is, if you hear me in person, it sounds like how it sounds in the videos. So my point is, if. If the guitar doesn't sound like anything like it does in the YouTube videos, then how come my voice sounds like it does? And there's probably a big argument there that somebody has. But I'm going to tell you that when I listen to playback of guitars, sure, it doesn't sound. I mean, obviously it sounds like it did in the room coming through an iPhone. It sounds like it did in the room coming through a tv. It sounds like it did in the room coming from, you know, whatever source you're using. But I find the source you're listening to, it has more effect on how it sounds than the source I recorded it. Especially the way I do it where I don't reamp, I don't multi quad track or whatever. You have to understand, I do no recording whatsoever. No professional recording whatsoever. I don't do any kind of that. Everything I do is just to give you a streamlined listen to what I have in the room. So that's why there's two mics and they're blended. I blend the mics. So sometimes you're listening to very little of the amp. And so you know what I'm after. If this helps your question, Fred, What I'm after is to eliminate my string noise. So when you take a microphone and you pull it away from the amp. The problem is I'm not in a stadium, I'm not in a studio. Like a lot of channels. I'm in a room that's like 10 by 10 or 12 by 12. It's a very small room. The string noise, the actual hitting the strings, the percussive that that comes through the microphone. So you need a microphone up on the speaker when you're playing it so that you can blend back out so that you don't hear so much string noise. And that's what you're doing. But in my opinion, here's why I feel that way. If you were to say, yeah, but everything you play sounds like you. Sure, I hear that a lot. You know, everything sounds like the artist. You know, everything sounds like the youtuber. Absolutely agree with you. I think that's helpful. When I know how a YouTuber sounds, I can listen to the gear and go, well, I know how they usually sound and this sounds like them, but there's a little bit difference. And that helps me too. It's almost like I told you, everyone's bias. It's just nice to know what the bias is. I think everyone, once you know their sound and how they play, you know, they're typically gonna get certain sounds out of everything. The certain way that helps you kind of discount a little bit of the sound and, you know, weigh it in. At least for me, that's how I like, you know, content. What I don't like is I don't like polished audio content. I'm not really into that at all. You know, some people love the channels that really make this, the gear sound amazing. I personally think not only are they doing. They're not so much doing a disservice for us, but, man, they really are screwing over the companies. I've had companies argue with me about their gear and the way it sounds, and they'll say, so. And so you made a video of our gear and it sounded amazing. I'm like, yeah, your gear does not sound like that. They're amazing. Their recording engineer skills are top par, you know, fantastic. But your gear does not sound like that. And I once, my favorite thing that ever happened, there was a piece of gear that I thought, you know, look, it was hard to coerce a good tone out of it. And I remember, you know, a couple of the channels that do the polished, you know, make everything sound great videos. I got a lot of heat for it. A lot of people were like, man, you made that thing sound really bad. And I felt pretty horrible about myself. I was like, man, I guess I did. To the point where I was walking the NAMM show and that company stopped Me, I was by outside their booth, but I was just walking by and they stopped me to tell me how bad I made their gear sound. This one particular thing. And I, you know, obviously I wasn't offended. I was just like, yeah, I understand. But I told him, I said, you know, it doesn't sound very good. I was the best I could get out of it. And it's not a good sounding product. And here's what I can tell you now. That was easily six, seven years ago. That product flopped and it's gone because no one could get a good sound out of it. No, no, that's not true. Really super talented musicians who are really good at recording and playing. Top level players with top level recording ability, they were able to get you a sound out of their videos that sounded good, but that was not an accurate representation. It was not really good. So, uh, so I, I guess if that's my answer to the question about the micing cabinets and stuff, and that's how I try to do it. Like I said, my goal is to always make it sound like it does in the room that I was in. How does it kind of feel and sound and give you the idea? I don't know, I don't know. Here, that helps. Probably doesn't help at all. Okay, so let's go, let's go to the next topic. What's the next next topic? The next topic was. Oh, it's right here. Let me pull up. Actually, I had it pinned aside and it came from Antique Rocker says, hey, PMT. The UK's biggest chain of guitar stores has closed. Is this due to a loss of sales to Toman, Sweetwater and Reverb or a drop in the guitar market? So obviously I'm in the U.S. i'm. I live in the U.S. and I know very little about PMT other than they had a YouTube channel that I thought was pretty good. And obviously I'm aware of them, industry aware of them. Size wise, I believe they weren't as big as Sam Ash. My guess. And again, I'm gonna guess some numbers, but I'm pretty gonna get you pretty close. 15 stores or less. That's what I got the, you know, again, I'm not, you know, I didn't look up every detail about them. So obviously Sam Ash, I think was. I don't even remember what Sam Ash was. Wasn't it 60 stores? Maybe it was 70, I can't remember. So I think Sam Ash is a bigger company. Funny enough though, I remember, I remember, I think PMT was like a 40 million, maybe 50 million a year dealer where I think, I don't remember what Sam Ash was, but obviously bigger than that. So again, I would think of them. The reason I'm telling you this is because I'm. I kind of relate them just like, kind of relate Toman to Sweetwater. I would relate PMT to the Sam Ash brand. In other words, the idea that it's a mid, you know, mid tier big store. Right? Like I guess you understand what I'm saying, Not as big as Toman by any means, but. But big. Just like Sam Ash was, not as big as Guitar Center. So obviously they closed. What I know about what they're closing is the patrons were talking about it. They were saying that basically it was like disclosed and literally if you had an order pending and you paid for it, you're not getting your order. I'm sure a lot of people are gonna file complaints with their credit card companies and stuff like that. The important part is you gotta understand this is kinda like last week's session, which actually got really intense. And we'll probably talk about some more with the cloning debate. There's a lot of things that I find that people talk about in the industry and I want to be very clear about this. Everything I talk about, whether you realize it or not, when these topics come up, is from the consumer side. I really don't care about the business side. If you listen to me talking about most things on my channel, I'm always advocating. I'm an advocate, I'm a consumer advocate. That's how I look at myself and my channel. That's what I long for. That's what I try to do when I'm pointing out flaws with companies. It's to improve things for consumers, whether that be to show the company their flaw and hopefully they fix it or show the consumer what to be aware of. And so a lot of times I'm looking at channels and their reactions to things are very like the business side of it. In other words, like, you know, look how hard it is for the business. I'm like, well, so I just wanted to let you know, just maybe I've never been very clear about that, that I always advocate for the consumer. So in this case, you know, the store going out of business, what I can tell you is that the market is very tough. And that is before you add any new problems. Okay, so everybody's talking about the current problems like the tariffs and all this stuff. I'm not saying that particularly with pmt, but I'M just saying, when everybody talks these problems, I'm like, you understand there's already other problems at play. The problems are the consumer literally wants to. To do business a certain way. They have spoken. They are doing it the way they like to do it. And some businesses are not adjusting. Well, if I was going to give some insight into the market to any companies watching, as you guys know, a lot of companies watch this podcast, which I guess I'm happy about. But also it's, you know, it's weird, right, to know that I'm talking to people in the industry because they're listening right now. They need to be adjusting. The market has been adjusting for the last decade. And what I mean by that is like, PMT is a perfect example. PMT had the same problem that Sam Ash has, okay? It's really the same problem if you think about costs a fortune to acquire customers. When I say cost a fortune, I mean not only in advertising time. You know, getting the customer to actually physically go in a store is very hard. It's much harder to get them going to store now than buy online. It's much harder to get them to pull the trigger on a purchase without taking tons of information. In other words, they spend more time in the store. So think with this. The cost of the cost to get the customer costs more. The cost to get the customer to make the purchase cost more for the stores. And more importantly, the customer is demanding a better deal, right? And sometimes that deal is price, like, give me a better price. And sometimes that better deal is service. They want more service than what the stores are used to giving. And so the reason I bring that all up is the thing that kind of hit Sam Ashard was you have some big entities gobbling up the market. You know, Amazon and again, Europe would have Thoman, and Amazon US has Guitar Center, Sweetwater and Amazon. But to say that the big stores, that's the core of this question. He's like, do you think that that's the big stores? Thoman, you know, Sweetwater, is that what's hurting pmt? Well, yeah, of course it's hurting them, but what also is hurting them is their failure to recognize the change in the market. The change is. If I. I said this before, I want to say 30 years ago, I can almost say 20 years ago. 20 years ago. So what were we talking about? 20, 25. We're talking about 2005. 2005. It was probably changing in 2005. In other words, this statement is actually not good advice in 2005. But it would be good advice in 2015. In 2015 and prior, I would say brands make the store. Customer walks in your store, in a guitar store, they see Fender, they see Gibson, they see Gretsch, they see sir, they see Tom Anderson, they see premium brands and those are kind of boutique, but you understand just the premium ones. Let's say Marshall, let's call it what it is. It's Marshall, it's Marshall, Vox, it's Fender, Gibson, right? It's, you know those brands, the premier brands. You walk in a store, if they have those brands, you are in a real store. You walk in, you see off brands and you, you're like, oh, this is not the store to be in. I don't think that's the case now. I don't think brands make the store anymore. I think the store has to be made on its own merit. Whether it's, it's, it's, it's niche's used gear, it's lessons, it's repair, it's having unique products. But more importantly it's the, you got to take the time and you got to be honest with the customer. Here is the honesty to a customer. When a customer walks in and says, hey, I want a, a Vox amp, I want a Marshall amp, the retailer has to say, look, we will not be in business selling those brands. You, you know, those brands have high buy ins that put pressure on us. They have particular, and I'm not picking on those two particular brands. I'm just giving you a suggestion of just the high end brands. They have demands of what you have to buy in. They have demands of what you have to carry. They have expectations of certain products that are going to be in stock. You're going to have to do that. The customer wants a discount, a deal. The big dealers are advertising those deals and if they're not, they're willing to give them to you, you know, under the table. In other words, without, you know, privately through email or whatever. And you don't have anything unique because you have a, let's just use a Vox AC 15. Everyone who has Vox has a Vox AC. You know, there's no, like I have the Vox AC 15 with the special feature. And so if you don't like it, you know, there's nowhere else to get it. It's I, everywhere you want to go, there's this product. You can get it anywhere and you can get it cheaper and they start discounting. And that's what Sam Ash did. Sam Ash, you know, as you guys know, I did Some videos at Sam Ash. Not sponsored. I did videos where I went in Sam Ash and Pocket Arts. I was buying guitars from Sam Ash over Guitar center because Sam Ash was cutting me deals, not because I was a youtuber. Had nothing to do with that. You just could walk into Sam Ash and they would drop price. It was just easy, like Guitar center used to. But the reality is, dropping your price to make a couple customers happy is fine, but having to drop that price every single time on every purchase, it's just no way to make money and have that inventory that you have to clear through. And then it's not. It's not helpful to those stores when they're clearing through, you know, a million dollars of inventory at a loss to churn it. Just to churn it, to say you have it. So I think this is what I've been saying for the last five years, for sure. Last. At least the last 200 to 300 episodes. I've been very consistent with the messaging, which is. I think this is not the death of small stores. I don't think the big giant entities are gonna take over. I just think that there's no room in the playground for all of you that you need to. You need to create what is unique about your business model. You need to give the customer something different. And yes, it will be a smaller base of customers, but those customers will go to you because there's. They're kind of burnout on the same thing. Same, same deal, same same price, same same brand. Richard said cash flow is important. Sure. Most of these businesses run on debt, so retail is a debt business. It's just how it's worked. When I. I told you guys, this is old, old story. I probably haven't told it years. When I opened my store, we were a cash business only. In other words, we bought everything that came in our store. That was true for the first two years. So for two years, I never took a single product on credit until I became a Fender dealer. And Fender wouldn't allow me to pay. I had the money. So I was like, hey, here's my Fender order. I'm approved to be a dealer. Where do I send the check? And Fender was like, no, you have to go with FMIC credit. You have to be on credit. And I go, I don't want to be on credit. And they go, well, you could just pay it as soon as you know, but we have to put you on credit. We only do business if you're on credit, and they put us on credit. And what I learned from that is they, you know, look, I don't know if it was nefarious. It always feels nefarious. And they weren't the only ones after them. It was many other companies, too. But it was like, you know, you would order stuff and then they would just go, oh, we're gonna put this stuff on there, too. And. But it's on your credit. It's on your terms. Everything's on terms. You know, just. In other words, they were able to push it on the credit. Hey, we'll put it on the credit. We'll put it on the credit. So, yeah, but that's when I learned retail is a debt business. It's a credit business. It's very hard to do it without any kind of form of credit, whether you want to or not. Like I said, I didn't want to. So we kept very low amounts of credit in the store. And again, much smaller store. I mean, we're talking, you know, we barely crested, you know, seven figures a year. But still, you know, it's still a hard thing to do with any retail. But like I said, I think I see it every day. I see it with what you guys purchase. I saw that Gabe, the CEO of Guitar center, recently was saying that he doesn't. He is not afraid or bothered by. And again, I'm just, you know, generalizing what he said. He's not afraid or bothered by Fender and Gibson selling. I think that's a smart move to say that, to give confidence to your consumers. But I think. I can't believe he believes that. It's absolutely problematic. Here's why. You know, I've said. I'll say this over and over again again. I feel like a broken record sometimes on the show when I say these things, but I'm like, look, everybody, especially in the guitar industry, seems like they want to have the Apple business model. You know, the Apple business model of like, oh, Apple sells direct to customers online. Apple sells in their own stores. Apple sells at Best Buy. Apple sells it at Target. But that's because everybody buys Apple. You know, Fender and Gibson, it's not that easy. They're not that dominant. They're not. They're not the. You know, there's not enough market for everyone to play in the sandbox, like I said earlier. So, yeah, it absolutely hurts Guitar Center. It hurts the mom pops. If I. I have no intention of ever opening a store again, but if I opened a store today, I would not put Fender, Gibson in there. And it's not because I don't like Fender, Gibson, I absolutely love them. That would be. And I know. And I actually think sometimes in the new world, when I'm talking to store owners, one of the things they say is, like, if you don't carry those brands, that's all people talk about when they come in. Do you have Fender? No. Do you have Gibson? No. And then they leave and I go, yeah, I get that it's hard, but that's where you have to. If you want to be in this business, you have to explain to somebody, like, no, I can't afford to carry those brands. Or. Or it doesn't make sense for us to carry those brands. You could spin it if you want and say, look, but I do carry these really good brands, and if you don't want to buy them, I understand that. But you. You're here in the store. Check them out. You can't check them out, you know, anywhere else. Check them out here. Try a G and L. Try a heritage. Try a, you know, another brand. Try what we have that maybe has less competition in the market and more margin and. And try to figure out how to make that work and really do used. Because used really puts it. Makes it easy for not to have to compete as much. But, yeah, I'm sorry to see PMT go. You know, everybody's out there probably going, you know, for the, you know, hey, all the mom and pops are closed and all the guitar is doomed, I'm sure. And like I said, I don't think that we'll ever get to an absolute zero when it comes to the mom and pop or the smaller guitar stores. But it is gonna get a small market because, again, the ones that haven't figured out what they do that's different than anyone else. I got a saying I wanna say. My mom always had these amazing sayings. I love them all. She always had funny sayings. And one of them is my favorite, is never mess with anything that's not afraid of you. That was her way of saying, like, if you. If you see a bear, you know. You know, and it's not afraid of you. If you see a dog, and it's not afraid of you if you see anything. She meant it mostly towards animals, but she meant people, too. If you see somebody and they don't seem to be afraid of you, in other words, of afraid of doing something wrong to you, you should get the hell away from them. Right? This is. I like the saying, it doesn't really apply to the situation, but I kind of want to say, like, hey, if I was going to say anything about PMT and Sam Ash and all the other stores that we've lost. And I understand Sam Ash is online now only, but I would say Amazon, Sweetwater, Tolman, and Guitar center, mostly. I would say the first three, but all four, they're not afraid of you, so I would get the hell away from them. Yep. That's just my take on it. So to answer your question, I don't think that they were destroyed by Tolman and Sweetwater and stuff. I think they were destroyed by their own customers and their own decisions with those customers. And I think that's what killed Sam Ash, too. An antiquated business model without adjusting. And I like to say I have the greatest idea for you, but if I did, I guess I'd be super rich. I just know what's not working because I can see what's not working, so that's not working. Let's talk to do what Christopher says. Christopher says, hey, he tried the blue chip tad. Tad 50 pick. The one we talked about last week. The $35 picks. He says, just got one. Hype is real. Well, it's a $35 pick. It's. Yeah, like I said, I told you guys, I had two. I can't find one, but I found the other one and played it this week. I was. I liked it. I forgot. I forgot how nice it is. It is a nice pick. You know, it's one of those things. Like, I say this all the time when it comes to expensive pieces of equipment. $35 is a lot for a pick. Obviously, I don't even pay. I pay five bucks for 12, so maybe six bucks now with 12. It's a great pick. Here's why. It's $35. It's one of those things. If it wasn't great, it would be offensive, right? It's like when somebody goes, hey, is that $3,000 guitar any good? I go, yeah, because if it wasn't, it would be offensive that it wasn't good. Right. Because it's $3,000. So, yeah. Declan says, top of the morning to you, Patrick, and inside joke. Okay, I won't tell the inside joke, but I'll give you the concept of where it's coming from. Will you be picking up a Padauk zither stand for your new new guitar? My new Padauk Nuno. No, I'm not gonna get a zither stand. I have so many zither stands and they have my logos on them, and I love them all, but I have too many When I say too many, I have one too many because one's in my garage and that's not a good place for it to be. But, you know, I can only put them so many places. So, you guys, you know, he's calling me Patrick, I. I told you guys I'd give you an update of the Nuno Bitten Court Padauk story, which is I bought a $2,700 Padau guitar and Nuno guitar, and I showed it on the Guitar of the Week two episodes ago and I noticed there was some issues with it. I discussed those issues for those are interested, you can go back to the other podcast for the just hit the Guitar of the Week sections and it'll tell you. Last week I countered some of the people's criticism, saying that, you know, the guitar was fine. I showed why my other Nunos aren't like that. So it's. Today is officially two weeks. It's been two weeks since I've contacted the store about the guitar. On Thursday, no, Wednesday night, I decided to contact the store again and say, hey, I haven't heard anything. I'm, you know, not being pushy, just looking for an update of anything. Right? You know, have you even talked to Washburn? They said they were going to follow up. They did. Within 24 hours. The store responded to me with very strange response. I'm not telling you guys on purpose because the situation is not resolved, nor does it look like it's any closer than it was to. Than it was two weeks ago. One of the reasons being that I actually contacted Washburn themselves and said, here's the issues I'm having. And, you know, I, you know, I'm not trying to throw the store under the bus, but I'm like, you know, hey, you know, it's been two weeks and the store's not understanding what I'm saying. So you guys know the store sent a response like, to solve the problem. And it was, it was like they didn't read the initial email issue, as you guys know, the nut sticking out of the neck and the other issues, mainly that one's the big issue. They were like, hey, we can send you some pickup screws for your pickups. And I'm like, okay, I already told you guys, I fixed that. I resolved that. Those going back to the. And then. So I reached out to Washburn and to their credit, they responded to me within one hour. But they called me Patrick, which I thought was funny. So I share with the patrons. I said, hey, I got Washburn. I sent them the problem. And Washburn responded back to me, but they responded back to me calling me. They said, hey, thanks, Patrick. And so I did, just to be totally transparent, I did make a joke at their expense to the patrons, saying, I don't think the Washburn motto is attention to detail. After looking at the guitar and now their email responses. But anyways, I did respond to that email. And the last email I got was, they're gonna send it up the flagpole and have somebody look at it. Right? You kind of know what that is. I don't know. So we haven't gotten anywhere is what I'm trying to say. That's that. So it's. And, well, here's what's great about this. I like sharing this. I wanted to share more, but there's no more story to tell. I will tell you, though, that I wanted. I'm sharing this with you. I will share you where it ends. Whatever happens, I will divulge to you what they end up doing if they do nothing, if they do something. Keeping in mind, like I told you guys, I'm fine. I bought the guitar. I think the guitar is defective, but I'm willing to keep it because there's other things I like about it. Like, I said that it's eight pounds instead of nine or ten. It plays fine for the most part. And, you know, I just don't. I think it's a B stock, in my opinion, and I would like to get a B stock price if I can. That would be nice. But if they don't want to do that. And also, I thought I would share with you guys, because I think you guys all think, which is fine. It makes sense. You guys all think because I'm some YouTube personality or I do stuff on YouTube that there's somehow some different level of service. And you hear it from YouTubers all the time. I don't know where it happens. Maybe if you're Rick Beato. Actually, I've personally witnessed Rick Beato. I watched him get insulted in front of him by a company. It wasn't a big insult, but it was like, if I was Rick Beato, I would have been pissed. But he wasn't pissed. Anyways, I told that story once. The point is, you know, I think you guys don't understand. Companies care or they don't care. And it doesn't seem to matter who it is. And I'm not saying I should get any kind of better service. That's all I'm saying. I'm just saying I know you guys sometimes Think like, oh, well, of course they won't be. You know, you get the idea. I'll just share the whole thing with you. So, so okay, what else? And then the 11 says, I found one of those Nuno's for $800, you should buy it. I would pay you 18 for it. What is it? 19? I'd pay you double. You find it, you buy it for eight, I'll buy it from you for 19, you'll make 800 bucks. But, but if you buy the wrong one, because there are $800 ones that are not what I have. So it's one of those things I learned that, you know what, I should be cautious. I did do this once in my store and it was an awkward moment, not for me, but I did sarcastically. Somebody said, oh, you're charging X amount for this guitar. And I could buy it for this. And it was like dirt cheap. And I said, oh, you buy it for that and I'll pay double what you paid for it. And then they bought it and they came in the store and we're like, that's not the same guitar. You see what's different. In fact, you shouldn't have paid what you paid for it. So in that caveat. That's my caveat. If you buy a Nuno N4, Padauk USA made one for $800, that's not broken. I will pay 19 for it because that's a good price if you get them on for two grand. Under two grand. Jerry McKinsey says, Washmar is not afraid of you. No one should be afraid. That's not the point. But I understand what you're saying. So. You know, I don't even think anybody know is that I have a YouTube channel. I don't advertise it, I don't use it like a. You know, I don't say like, hey, I'm Phil McKnight and I have a YouTube channel and I have a problem. I just, in fact, I generally don't use my name at all. Not even my first name, Phil. I just say, hey, I have an issue. Can you guys look at it? And because I, I don't know, it's. I find it usually works against me, then helps. It doesn't help you, it hurts you. It's what I found. So. Okay. But anyways, anyone wants to call me Patrick, I will tell you this and make sure a lot of you happy. Patrick loves gravy. Jeff G. Did a super chat. I don't see it there. So if, if I see it, I will grab it. If not, we'll figure it out. And let's go to Roger. Roger says, hey Phil, any chance of more Hills on the channel? Torn between the hills, HN6 or the Bowdoin Essential. Love the podcast. Yes, I have all the Hills guitars. So. So let's just to be clear for those interested, I did a video of Hills guitars in there. I did some critiques. They addressed and fixed those critiques. You guys did some critiques, they addressed all your. Apparently they were just like in the mood to fix their whole thing. They went through all comments. You guys put in the videos and made all the fixes. I'm not kidding. Anything you guys suggested they seem to go for. So I asked them if they would send me their new new line of guitars which are currently in stock. So they sent me a left handed or right handed with tremolo? A right handed, a seven string. All of them. I have a video coming out with all of them. I'll go over them. The answer to your question though is super easy when it comes to Hills versus the Strandberg. If you like the endurineck, you should go Strandberg. If you don't like the endurineck, you should go Hills. I said it before, I. I like the endur neck. I do not love it. When I say that, it means exactly what I said. I can't. I got used to it, I played it. It's fine. I think Strandberg made a mistake in not making a thousand dollar traditional neck. I think it's because, you know, I get it, it's their brand, it's the indoor neck. But, but to me it's, it's allowing companies to make guitars that are like their guitars and get it into the market. Like Hills. Let's just call what it is. I would, I would suggest like I just did to you, a Hills guitar is also made in Indonesia. It's also high quality. It's less than a thousand dollars and it has a traditional neck. And if that's what you're looking for, plus you can hang it on the wall, which is great. So to me the Hills is better than the Strandberg for those features. So it's okay. Chris Goodwin. What's up, Chris? He says, hey, happy Father's Day. Have you tried the Katana bass? The amp, the Phil Jones bass is great practice amp but I'm looking for something that'll get over loud guitars better. Yeah, the Phil Jones stuff's not more of a jazz rigorous at home practice amp. I have not tried the Katana bass. So I, I don't know, I, I have no reference of it at all. Bass amps that I like that are small and affordable is the Fender Rumble series and the Ampeg stuff that's again, both very affordable. I find them to be really good punch, way above their weight. And actually I feel like, I feel like the Fender Rumble based stuff is just, I mean, good enough for any situation. Super light and super affordable. It's the way to go. It's just the way to go. And I think they look good because they look like traditional Fender amps. So unless you just don't like Fender. But I think Fender Rumble. And of course, I don't know, let me look. I have this, you know, with all the world and the pricing and everything, sometimes I go, I suggest something and then I go, oh. And later I look and I go, I didn't realize the price has gotten crazy. Oh no, this is legit. Like I would get. I can't imagine, Chris, you couldn't play with the 112. And the 112 is 329. And it's, it's backordered. But when do they say? In June. Oh, they'll have it in June. The. It's 22 pounds. It's. Here's the thing. It's 22 pounds. It'S gonna feel like eight. It feels like nothing when you pick it up. You feel like super strong. And that's the 112. You could get away with the 112, but the 210. The 210 is going to take you to 850. But they have a 115, right? Yeah, the 115. Look at that five. There you go. 579. It's in stock. Hey, you're in Arizona. It's going to come to you. Basically, if you buy it today, you'll have it by Monday down in Tucson, I would imagine. And 34 pounds, super light. So I highly suggest that. I like them. They sound good. I don't know if great's the word, but good. Like I said, I keep with them. I literally could take them, play them anywhere and get any sound I want, feel happy. So. And that's all it really matters is that you feel happy. Right. RM says, hey, scored a rumble 500 for 200 bucks. Yeah. Well, think of this. And don't even forget used. You know, if you could check out used. Sure. Zim says that's the amp I play. Yeah, Zim's got, he's got an extra. He made One amp because he has one with a broken head. He made one into an additional speaker cabinet and put a speaker out so he can chain them. So makes total sense again for the price and the. It's just hard to beat. They, the thing that's great about them is. So if, if you don't understand what happened was when Fender bought, they bought SWR, which is Stephen W. Rabies Co. And so Fender bought SWR. And then this is what Fender. Somebody at Fender who was in charge of the SWR line told me. So just want to make it clear where the information came from. They told me that when Fender bought SWR a lot of the SWR product was not properly UL rated and that they had because they're a big, you know, multi million dollar company, Fender now they were like, this all has to be corrected. So Fender got a lot of flack from the base community for making the new SWRs not sound as good as the old ones. And so a lot of people are like, think the Fender error swrs weren't very good. And he was even telling me, he's like, what's kind of true? Because we, you know, we, he was, you know, we had to change some things for, for safety reasons, I guess. I don't know. So anyways, one of the things they did is they came out with a Goliath line. No, not the Goliath, what was it? Go light. The Go light line of swr. And what they were doing was they were making cabinets out of something called a koume, I don't remember the spelling, was like O K O U M E akume, something like that, which was apparently a wood that's super light. But they, and they used in Asia to make boats out of like, you know, little, you know, little paddle boats, not like ships anyways, super light, very strong. They were making these cabinets out of them. They were pretty expensive. And then when Fender bought kmc, in the KMC purchase they got Jens Gins, which was Jeff Gensler's company, who was still working with the company. And so they had two high end baselines and they were going to merge them into one line. I actually interviewed, a general interview to be a product manager at the time. They were courting me a little bit, which I thought was nice to do that, to maybe take that position, which I was totally going to do. Because I'm like, that'd be like the coolest thing I've never done that. I like new stuff to do new things. And before that could go any further to a real Thing you know, Fender had sold off kmc and Jen's Men's was sold off. And then they decided to shelve everything and they shelved swr. Now, the reason I tell you that story is I always thought it was interesting because at that time, swbr, they were using the go light heads, which were very good, by the way, but they were class D amps, basically made in Taiwan because that's where I'm pretty much all the class D stuff is made. And. And they then coincidentally, within a very short period of time, I want to say, a year after shelving SWR as a brand, they came out with the new redesigned Fender Rumble series that we. We now talk about. Right. And the Rumble series, if we go back, I'm pretty sure I'm right. Let's take a look at one is obviously class D power amps, which are probably Class D, is made in Taiwan, and the cabinets are made of that same material. Kume. Let's see if it says. Does it say. Does it say somewhere in this? I don't know. It might take forever to read. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Huh. It's not saying. I'm pretty sure I'm right. I don't see it in here. And I don't want to take too much time because I feel like it should be something that they, you know, it's pretty up front. Let's see. Sweetwater usually has a pretty good, you know, quick description of them talking about things. Let's see. Yeah, like the cabinet. Nothing. Huh? Oh, you know, where they might have the information. Let's look at actually cabinet. Not a combo, because the combos will be made. So here's the cabinet. Let's see if it's light like that. Usually they tell you what the cabinet is because it's okay. Anyone see it? This is lightweight plywood. All right, so anyone want to look that up and confirm that for me? That'd be great. Put it in. That'd be great if we could see. But I'm pretty sure it's the same material. So what I'm basically getting at is, I believe for no real reason, no factual like, you know, somebody told me specifically, but just in my gut instinct of that whole situation that the Rumbles are really just cost effective versions of what those go light SWRs are. So. Which is why I think they do so well. And I think it was smart. That was really smart thing for Fender because Fender really saw that coming. They saw that the cheap bass amp thing was going to be a thing because, I mean, you know, you could say to anyone, like, cheap gear is going to be the future. But I mean, with bass amps, cheap base amps, basically bass players at this point, it's got to be light and it's got to be a very affordable amp. Because the, the thing is, I remember talking to Ampeg when they were talking about how the fact that no one buys a 10 cabinets anymore, and they were like, yeah, the problem with A10s is like just really heavy. And I said, well, you can make, you know, lighter versions. And the guys at Ampeg were like, yeah, the problem is, you know, they were trying to tell me what the problem. They're like, the problem with 810s and 300 watt, you know, tube amps is, you know, just nobody plays loud shows. And I said, no, that's silly, that's not it. I said, when Everybody was buying 100 watt tube amps for guitar and giant bass rigs, I was playing that in a bar. I played a bar. I used to play in bars with the band with a 215 and a 410 cabinet with a 1600 watt. It was 800 watts mono bridged power amp with an SVP preamp. I said, no. People were insane. Us, all us guitar players and bass players, we were insane running giant rigs we didn't need. Why? This is what I told them. I said, why I believe bass players stop buying and carrying A10 cabinets is because the guitar player on the other side of the stage stopped bringing a stack. I always had to buy as a bass player, whatever would compete, whatever the crazy guitar player was doing. So once the guitar players started bringing 112 combos to the stage and then processors, like now, the last four times I played out, the guitar player was running a direct 2PA system rig like an AXE FX or a Kemper or a Helix. So you think I need an 810 for that? I was like, I did one gig where I brought a 112 bass combo and it was just ridiculous. I didn't even need it. It was a waste of time because the guitar player was running direct. So I said, I think that's what killed those big bass amps is that the guitar players got sane or they got old sane. It's maybe getting old and sane is the same thing. I don't know. But they definitely got sane. Let's go to another subject. This one is one I'm excited for. Except for it is. This one's from Michael. Now, Michael, I feel bad. You. I captured this last week, and I. I gotta tell you, it hit me kind of hard. Okay. So Michael sent this to me right before the show. It just caught my eye. I don't remember if it was early riser question or email, whatever came in. And it was, hey, I've worked far too many days without any time off. I totally like, when I saw that, I was like, I have. I gotta knock it off. I've gone now like three, four months without a day off. I'm not complaining. I have a very good job, right? Not complaining about my job. And when I say I haven't had a day off, I mean, some days I'm only working four hours. But it's. Shawna mentioned to me ironically, right before Michael, I saw your email saying, you know, you've gone almost four months now without a day off. Could you take a day off, maybe chill and relax? And I was like, ah, you know, I'm taking half days. It's fine. Anyways, so I was like, I kind of understand. I was felt a little drained and overworked. And he said, hey, what's the happiest guitar news that you've heard this week? And I was like, I don't have any. Last week it was like, oh, clown's being sued. You know, grumblings about some company going out of business, some companies dying because of tariffs. It was like, oh, man. But guess what, Michael? I was determined. I was determined. So, you know, all week, all week, every day, I made time to take mind share and go, I'm gonna find something exciting to share on Friday. Nothing was happening. In fact, there's a three, maybe four exciting things that I'm not allowed to tell anybody until July. And I was like, oh, well, that's not gonna help anybody today. But, Michael, then something happened, and I want to share it, and I'm super excited about it. And some of you gonna be excited and some of you gonna hate this. And I don't care because it's awesome. So for Father's Day, I don't know if you guys saw Kiesel Guitars is doing something really cool. I'm gonna share it with you. I think it's awesome. I was. It's the most excited I've been about a guitar thing in months, and I didn't know anything about it. Like, to point out, I saw it this morning. Like the rest of you. I've been actually talking to Jeff all week about something, and he didn't even mention this to me. They have decided to do for Father's Day So get the idea. I don't think it's just for the weekend, maybe a week or two. I don't know. It's limited. They're doing kits, they're doing a kit. So let's get into this. So they're doing a kit. So it's a made in USA completely headless guitar kit for 8.99. So if you're doing the math, somebody just asked me about the Strandberg guitar for a thousand bucks. Made in Indonesia, which is a quality guitar. This is a USA made hipshot bridge. USA pickups, usa. You can get it in ash and alder neck. And you see they kind of wired up the stuff together so it's again, it's pretty easy. And then I want to go into it because they did some pretty cool things. I built one out. You can see the one I built out that I thought was perfect was 959. So granted that added 100, oh, $60. And what I did on mine is scale length was set. You can get alder ash. I honestly think if you guys get ash the way they're going to give it to you, it's going to be perfect. So you don't have to sand it or anything. I don't think you're gonna have to. And you don't have to paint it. I wouldn't paint the ash. The alder you might want to paint. So 50 bucks more and you get an ash body. And it'll probably make the guitar lighter as well. The neck wood is. You get maple or you can add roasted neck. The roasted maple I think is worth 100 bucks. But again, you know, you try to keep this fun and reasonable. Considering you're talking about a thousand dollar guitar, you could have 22 or 24 frets for free. I picked 22 frets. You can see I was playing with this earlier thinner neck for 60 bucks. I personally, unless you like really thin necks, I'd stay away from the thinner neck because their necks, their, their regular neck is not a thick neck, it's a thin neck. Fretboard wood, you can pick ebony or rosewood for no charge. Or royal ebony. And I was like rosewood, there's ebony. So either way, no charge. The radius, this is cool. You can get 14, 10 or 12. I pick 12. As you know, it's my favorite because that's what's on my delos. You can do compound for 50 bucks. That's up to you. This is the other thing I thought was cool. You could pick your inlays, no charge. So you can have the solid dots. I like the offset dots. That's inlay material. Same thing. Mother of pearls free. Or you can add for lumen lays and acrylic and stuff like that. And then frets, you can get regular nickel frets or nickel jumbo frets. I would go with the regular frets for the most part. I like jumbos, but I don't think you need them. And then electronics, you can pick. You can actually pick the pickups. I mean, they charge you for the, you know, the other upgraded ones, but you can pick if you want the lithium, the holdsworth, or the beryllium. And I think they'll probably charge it. Yeah, no, yeah, yeah. Charge you if you want to black out the polar pieces stuff. And then hardware options are pretty basic. The bridge is just tremolo for 100 bucks, or I would stick. I like, personally, for headless guitars, I love the hardtail. I'm not a big fan of the tremolo, of any tremolo on a headless guitar, much less on this. That's just my preference. I'm just sharing with you guys because I wanted to. And the knobs comes with black plastic or black knobs. And I thought you could get the wood knobs, which I have on my acoustic headless keisel. Add that, man, that gives you a look. And that's gonna look like my Nuno Bittencourt N4. And it's made in the USA and it's less than 1,000 bucks. And they're saying it could take up to six weeks for delivery, so. Six weeks? I don't know. I thought that was pretty cool. You know, a lot of people have been asking Kiesel to do kits like Carbon used to, and they're not really, you know, really interested in it. But I think he said, I sent him a message. I said, hey, I took a screenshot, I sent it, and I go, that looks cool. And he said, yeah, I thought it'd be something cool to do for Father's Day. Have some, you know, and get some people into some USA made guitars for a thousand bucks. And again, they'll just have to, I guess, assemble the neck and put the hardware on. But I thought was cool, man. I think it's a cool idea. If you've been thinking about a headless guitar, you know, this is under a thousand bucks. It's legit. There's no, by the way, there is no, like, this is the import bridge and this is the, you know, like, you know how PR does, like the S2 series, where it's like, yeah, they're made in USA, but then they start using import. This is the same stuff. If you're buying a keysil and they build it. This is the same stuff except for the body shape. I thought was smart of him. I don't know if you noticed. I don't know. Does anyone know what body shape this is? It's not. I guess technically it's the Delos. I don't know which one this is, so I kind of think it's its own thing. He didn't name it. Kind of look looks like a Delos. I don't know. I just thought was cool. So, Michael, that's the cool news. I know that's not. I mean, it's still a thousand bucks and a thousand dollars. A lot of money. But you know what it is? It's the right kind of thousand dollar announcement. It's not like a, hey, we made this amp that was $400. Now it's a thousand. It's like, hey, here's a way to get into a brand for you. I thought it was cool. I thought was really cool. Cool. Smart. Smart play. Yeah. Wow. Okay, so there's my good news, Michael. I was determined. And the other good news is obviously the Helix Stadium came out. The announcement. The only thing about that, and some people ask about that as well, you know, what do I think of the new Helix Stadium? If you guys haven't seen, Line 6 has released the newest version of their Helix, which are what seems like what I saw. A much higher quality version of what they've had before. Something that's definitely more competitive with Ax Effects and Kemper. Not a whole lot of negatives for me. Mostly all positives. Everything I liked. I liked the price points. Although, you know, hey, it's not cheap. They were like $1800 for the LT and 22 for the Deluxe. Although I thought that was within reason for the market for what they're competing with. The only negative I have is I was like, cool. And I went to Sweetwater to order one and I was like, well, maybe I'll do a video of it. And they're like, oh, they're not out. And I'm like, well, wait, when do they come out? And I couldn't even find that. And I was like, oh, well, is it? And then I listened a little bit more and there were some things they said that were her a little weird to me. Like, hey, this is like, we haven't finished this. We photoshopped this on this is. And we'll Be out. This will be in Gen 1, this will be in Gen 2. So what I'm trying to say is I'm excited about the product. I'm excited about the announcement. I'm excited about everything I saw. I'll be more excited when it's physically out and I, and we can really see it. We'll see some videos and we'll know it exists. Angel asked, hey, Phil, are you going to build a keisel kit? You know, I looked at Shauna and I said, hey, should I buy a keisel kit and do a build? And she's like, I don't know. And I said, oh, I know I have a great idea. I'll tell everybody about it today because I thought it was fun. And I go and I'll buy one and I'll make a video building it. And that way, in case you guys are a little nervous about building a kit, I'll just like, hey, I'll have a video where you can watch me build the kit. And then I went to the website, okay, I wanna show you and let me click in it. And I was looking at it and I'm like, well, if you're paying attention, they look like they've already wired the switch. This is all coming pre wired, obviously. The hardware that just screws in, right? The pickups just screw into the body. This next is gonna bolt on. This is gonna be a very easy kit build. I think the most of your time is gonna be spent if you wanna do something fun with the, the body. Maybe staining it or painting it. I don't. I mean, here's the. I'm getting that maybe, you know, you're going to solder a little bit. I have a video on soldering. You can watch that, you'll be fine. This is really. Don't think of it as if you're looking for your first kit. That's going to be a little hard. This is not going to be a hard kit, especially with the quality, you understand? This isn't going to be like one of those, you know, $200, you know, made in China kits where it's like, okay, and then you're going to have to polish the frets and round over the fret ends and do all this work and level the fretboard and all this stuff. I'm picturing this is going to be more like war moth quality where you put it together and you make some adjustments. But to answer your question, angel, don't be surprised if I don't get a kit. I told Sean I go, I got to have, like, a reason to buy it because I already have four Headless Giesel guitars. I was like, I don't know. Do I need five? And then she thought, well, wait, we'll donate or something. I don't know. I don't know. I got to figure it out. The. I don't know. I think it's. Maury says I would sandblast it. Yeah, well, yeah, you could do that if you know how to. If you have a sandblasting thing. There's a part of me, it's like, well, I could do something fun with this. I don't know. Like I said, I was excited. I thought it was cool. I just, you know, it's like when everything's always like, hey, the price has raised, and it's gotten crazier, I thought, hey, you know what? I really don't care if you have to assemble your guitar yourself if they're going to cut you the deal. So I don't know if that was fun. What is it? Is it time for guitar of the Week? Speaking of that, let's do guitar of the Week. Okay. So Guitar of the Week. Interesting enough, a thing happened. I just want to tell you there was a guitar of the week. It was a very special guitar, and something happened. Not negative, just something that just made it not make sense to be today. So next week there'll be a very exciting guitar of the Week. So I'm telling you that because I had to throw together this guitar the week last minute. So today's guitar of the Week is a B.C. rich gunslinger. I know. Wait, hold on. I want to show you. So if you guys watched, I did a BC rich gunslinger video, a guitar made in India that I had. I was lucky enough to have guitar center sponsor. They sent the guitar so I. I didn't have to buy it, which was nice. They and. And did a deep dive. If you guys saw that was an epic fail deep dive, I would say not the worst deep dive I've ever done of a guitar, but it's in the, like, if there's a. If I ever do a top five best deep dives, right? Like at the end of the year when I'm really desperate for content and a top five worst deep dives ever. It's in the top five worst. It's. There's no way this guitar is not making the top five four. If you guys remember, I had to polish the front end, had a level of fret. There was all kinds of issues. So the guitar's here. And I was like, okay, what am I gonna do with this guitar? I gotta do something with it. It's my problem now. So I did this not knowing it was gonna be guitar of the week. So here's what I did to it. This is the Bstrich gunslinger. So let me tell you what I did to the guitar and then I'll play it for you and you let you hear it a little bit, let you take in the new BC Rich gunslinger. So what's different? Well, first of all, if you notice, I added some pink straps. Cause, hey, it's 80s, right? I added a pink DiMaggio Superstorian. No, I'm sorry. DiMargio Tone Zone. I wish I put a DiMarzio Super Distortion in it. Because I think if you think of this guitar, I think of the super distortion, but I didn't have one. I had a pink tone zone. And I'm like, I'll use that because I had it. I switched out the, the. The springs in the tremolo to the futone red ones. And I put a tremo. A tremolo block or a. A block. A block on the back. So now the tremolo doesn't go backwards, which helps with the tuning stability. It didn't have a lot of issues, but I thought, hey, let's help it out a little bit more. And then I did a full setup, which I already kind of done. If you guys are patrons and you see my weekly clinics, you'll know this was a guitar of one of those clinics that ended up needing a crap ton of fret work. In fact, after I did it, I had to redo it in front of you guys. It was a little embarrassing. Not a lot, but I think everybody learned from that. Like when I said, sometimes everything doesn't go as well as we hoped. So I thought, can we redeem this guitar? This guitar. You know the word BC Rich, you know, on that, if you go to that video. Okay. I'm almost glad. Sometimes when videos don't do, you know, go viral. That video did. I mean, did well, but not for the channel. It's not in my top, you know, hitters by any means. I feel good that it didn't do great, because sometimes I feel bad when a guitar is really bad and then the video does great because then you're just in, you know, slapping the company in the face. But the word embarrassed was used so much in the comments in that video. Like, BC Rich should be embarrassed. This is embarrassing for BZ Rich. And I was like, yeah, so can we redeem it? So I'm gonna go plug it in, switch it up. I got a little. I'll play a little Guitar of the Week intro and let's do Guitar of the Week. Let's do it. Okay, so let me switch cameras and situate myself. Now it's time for Guitar of the Week. Okay, so what we have is the BC Rich going through an Ingle Steve Morris amp. It's a 20 watt all tube head with a 112 cabinet, mic'd up with an E609 by Sennheiser. The speaker in there is a Redback Celestian. And I'm running a room mic. I will mute my mic. And I'm running a backing track from Max. Backing tracks, which I think is hands down, the best backing drum tracks on YouTube. I'll put a link to their channel and let's go ahead and play. Okay. Okay, so. So somebody, by the way, gotta pay attention. Cassandra put a comment that says it reminded me of Jesse's Uncle Jesse from Full House. You know, I was talking to my patrons like a week ago or so and maybe two weeks ago, and I told them that I wanted to be rich because of Uncle Jesse. And they said from Duke's A Hazzard. I'm like, no, no, Uncle Jesse from Full House. So funny enough, like, you know how like I saw John Mayer say he got into guitar because he saw Back to the Future and Michael J. Fox, you know, played that, the red ES335 Gibson, and he was like, that's what made me want to play guitar. I wanted to play guitar. Like, the first thing that got me excited about guitar was watching the the Crossroads with Steve. I was like, oh, this is great. But when I would watch Full House, the show, the TV show Full House, Uncle Jesse, he had the bedroom and he always had beast riches and there was very cool. And I always thought like, yeah, it's like this is what Uncle Jesse would have on his wall. And so. So obviously. So I think the guitar is a little redeemed. It's a little better. Somebody said, I saw in the comments, it looks like a poor look. This was a very streamlined guitar. And you know, I'm still not gonna say, oops, don't be careful, don't hit the waiting bar. I'm still not gonna say for $900 plus tax, almost $1,000, that's a good deal. I would not recommend that guitar. But, you know, at least it's not a boat anchor anymore. That's what makes you sad when you do a video like that? You're like, oh, well, the guitar gets a stay, but what am I gonna do with it? So I was like, hey, let's. Let's lemonade that sucker. So I put in a different pickup. I wanna say, better just a different pickup, and did some setup. And there you go. So there's that. There's the guitar of the week. So for those, it's redeemed. I'm gonna say it's redeemed. So Hockhead418 says, who wants the Jack Butler Jackson? You know what's funny is I never. You think as much as that movie had an effect on me, you think I would want the red sparkle Jack Butler Jackson? But the problem I have is in the. In the movie, that the headstock had no logo, so I had no idea what it was. And this is back then, you know, you didn't Google it. You didn't see anything of it. I just never knew what that guitar was. So to me, it was like, oh, at that point, as a guitar player, I was like, or not even a guitar player. Wasn't even a guitar player yet. When did that movie come out? I think before I even played guitar, because I remember. Let's see. Gonna share a funny story with you. Speaking of the Internet. Okay, so the movie Crossword, 1986. I started playing guitar in 89. So it's. I obviously had an effect on me years before I started playing guitar, but I wasn't playing guitar at the time. So again, I just went. And then here's what's really funny. This is why I laughed. I laughed because I laugh because several years later, talking to Shauna one night, I was like, crossroads is the greatest movie ever with Ralph Macchio and Steve. I. And Shawna goes, I've never seen it. And I'm like, what? He has to duel with the devil? It's the greatest movie ever in the history of movies. We need to go get this movie. So I call the Blockbuster and I say, hey, do you have the movie Crossroads? And they go, no. And I'm like, oh. So I called Hollywood Video. Now we're going back, right? This is Hollywood Video. Was the. The Blockbuster Video that died before Blockbuster Video. And I call them and they go, we don't have it. I go, you don't have it? And they don't have it. So I called and there was a. Like a Paradise Video Records and Tape store. And I was like, do you guys have Crossroads? And they go, we sure do, but only for Purchase, not for rental. And I'm like, I don't care. I'm gonna buy it. So we get in the car, we drive. It's not far. It's a 20 minute drive. We go to Paradise Video Records and Tapes. We go. And I said, I called about the movie Crossroads. And they go, yeah, we have it right over there for you, sir. And it was the Britney Spears movie. Apparently Britney Spears has a movie called Crossroads too. And I go, no, this. This isn't Crossroads. Like, that's Crossroads. And I go, no, Crossroads with Ralph Macchio and Steve. I. And everybody at the counter was like, I don't know what you're talking about. What movie is that? I'm like, what, Steve? I. Is the devil's guitar player. Ralph Macchio pays a pig nose amp. This is me explaining to people at the Paradise Record. They're in a record store. It's a video record and tape store. And they're like, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm like, I have no faith in this store. I'm out of here. Done. So shortly thereafter, I had an epiphany where I was like, ebay, That's a thing now? Because at the time, it was a thing now. And I went on ebay, and there it was, and I bought it on dvd. So. So. So I got to play it for Shauna, and she said, that was. That was him. She said it was fine. So, yeah. Not the biggest disappointment she's ever had to watch on as a movie. The biggest. On a side note, and then I'll get back to guitar stuff. Is the. The biggest thing is Shauna, my wife, does not watch scary movies at all. She's gonna be so upset I'm talking about this. Not really. She's just gonna think it's stupid. Roll her eyes. She doesn't watch scary movies at all. She's never seen any of them. You name all the scary movies, never seen any of them. She's never seen the Exorcist or any Friday 13th or nightmare, none of that stuff. She doesn't watch any scary movies. She didn't find any of it interesting at all. And so one night, we're talking, and I was talking and I said, the greatest movies of all time. And I'm naming off what I think are, like, the top 10 greatest movies of all time. And I get to Jaws, and she's like, never seen it. And I go, you've never seen Jaws? She goes, no, I don't do scary movies. I go, dude, it's the greatest movie all time. Doesn't matter if it's scary. It's just a great movie. So I convince her. I don't know why we're still married. Anyways, I convince her to watch Jaws and I buy Jaws and we put it on and we're watching. And halfway through the movie, she's just sitting there bored. Now keep in mind, this is pre cell phones. She's not looking at a phone or anything. There's no tablets. She looks bored. Eyes glossed over just with boredom. And I'm like. And I go, is it too scary? What's going on? She goes, this is stupid. And I go. She goes, the shark's teeth are rubber. And then she ruined Jaws for me. I don't even know if she knows this, but it's true. We're watching Jaws, which I've seen now way too many times, right? I've seen it so many, so many times. Literally scares me to this day. We're watching Jaws and then there's the scene where the boat captain is going to get eat by the. Eaten by the shark. I thought the chumming scene would get her nothing, you know, right? She's. None of this has no effect on her, right? She's just like. And by the way, I know what you're thinking, you know, she probably is different now. Nope, she can't take any scary movies at all. She's just not finding any of this scary or interesting at all. We get to the scene where the boat captain, now he's sliding into the water and she goes, is that guy sitting on a pillow? And I go, what? And she's like, yeah, he's sitting on a pillow, the shark's eating him in a pillow. And I'm like, what are you talking about? Let's see if I can do this Jaws pillow scene. Let's see what happens. Images. Um, let's see if that's it. Nope, let's see. Hold on. Man sitting on pillow. See, I'm taking way too time for this. But it is Father's Day. Give it to me. There is. I can't find the picture. It's driving me nuts. So I apologize. But if you've seen Jaws and you know what I'm talking about, then you know, it's funny you if you don't know what I'm talking about. I'm sorry if I'm ruining Jaws for you. But the scene, the scene is where watch man getting eaten. Ah, let's see. Doesn't show the picture, but anyways, if you go to the scene where the captain gets eaten by the shark and he's sliding down in the shark's mouth, they put. And then we. We. We now. We now realize, because you can Google it, they put a pillow behind him, like he's sitting on a pillow. That's how bad it was. They left it in the movie. So. So Shawna ruined Jaws for me, but at least she wasn't scared. That's the end of that. That's the end of that story. So. Yep. Quint, shark eating scene. Yep. Yeah, I know. I know. Yep. So Captain Quint is sitting on a pillow. For those that care. Let's. Let's get back to guitar talk, since this is. This is now making me sad talking about this. Okay, let's go. Let's go to what? We got another question. Subject. We do. We have a ton, and I think Amanda sent me some too. Okay. We have. Christian says, hey, what is the. What is one feature on a guitar that. At that. That you are unwilling to compromise on? Stainless steel frets, Truss rod location. A feature arm car. No, I gotta tell, it's all arm carves. I don't know. I don't really care. I know it's not like a very, you know, sad response to the question because there should be some hard line for me, but there isn't anything in particular that I'm like, every guitar of mine has to have this one thing. I would say. I would say, for the most part, medium jumbo are larger frets. I'm just not a vintage fret fan. So I would say that's my biggest thing is that I would need taller frets or if they're smaller frets, I need the fretboard to be super flat because again, I just don't like the feeling of my finger rubbing the fretboard when I'm doing bends. So that would be the only thing that it's. I think every guitar I own has to have medium. Medium jumbo or jumbo frets. Medium jumbo or jumbo frets. That's it. I prefer stainless steel just because I know it's gonna last forever. You know, I was looking at my delos the other day and I was like, wow, look at that. No fret wear. And I play the guitar every single day. I was like, that's a nice thing to know that in, you know, 10 more years, it's still gonna look like brand new frets. So that's pretty cool. Other than that, that's it. Mr. S says, turning 55 today happy birthday. Says wife said I should order a custom guitar from a luthier I've been gassing on for years. Custom asymmetrical neck based on hand measurements. HSS with. With. With noise cancellation. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. Humbuck. Okay. Forever guitar. Happy Dad's day, dude. Congratulations. Tell your wife she's awesome. You know, you know anybody, anytime the wife's like, anytime anyone's for you buying a guitar, you know they're a good person. You need them in your life. When somebody says you don't need a guitar, just, you know, you don't need that negativity. They need to go, but she's great, so keep her for sure. And thank you for the super chat. And let, Let me know. I'm curious. What, what is the guitar? When you get it, let me know what it is. I'm curious. Seth says, hey, Phil. I find myself being somewhat elitist when looking at new guitars, particularly about country of origin. I think that's a big hang up for a lot of us. Sure. USA, Japan and hardware specifications or original Floyd's versus 1000s. Valid in 2025. Budget is 2K to 5K. You know, I. I am the thing I hate. And I, I don't know how to fix it for the most part. But being aware of it has got to be some kind of good thing, right? Let me, let me tell you why I am the thing I hate. There's a person, I don't, I don't know his name, I don't remember him, but I don't like him. He is the guy, the salesman at the guitar store that made my first real amazing guitar almost not happen. But on top of that, it not exactly what I wanted. And I tell you that story because I want to tell you where it came from. I want to tell you how it happened and then why I'm affected by like you. So when I graduated high school, my mother said, what do you want as a graduation gift? And I said, a guitar. And she's like, that's. You got a guitar for your 16th birthday. I'm like, yeah, that was like two years ago basically, right? So like I want a new guitar. I want an Ibanez. I want an Ibanez. All my heroes are playing Ibanez. I want an Ibanez. And my mom, she agreed. She. She decided to make it happen. So we drove down to Guitars Etc. In Tucson, Arizona and I walked in the store and there was an Ibanez RG770 in purple with purple knobs. They had three colors of that RG 770. I think they had a black one too, so maybe four. They had the laser blue. They had the red with. And then they had the purple. I wanted the purple. I saw it. I was like, this is amazing. That's the guitar. And I walked up to the guitar, and I knew I was getting it. So you understand there's no, like, can I touch that? It was like, no, no, that's mine. This is my. This is my gift. Just so you guys know, this is only maybe in funnier context. When I turned 16, my mother said, I'll give you my car. Okay? I'll give you my car. And, you know, she'll get a new car. New car, new to her. She got a used car, but she'll get another used car. She goes, I can have a car. And I said, I want a guitar. She goes, well, you can have a guitar or a car. And I said, I'll have a guitar. And my mom's like, are you. You're kidding, right? I go, no, I want to. I want a guitar. She goes, you don't want a car? And I go, no. So I got a guitar for my 16th birthday, and I didn't get a car. And she thought I was crazy. I still think I'm. I thought I was smart. I think I'm smart to this day. At the time, my girlfriend drove, so she drove me around. I got a guitar and my girlfriend drove me around. So that worked out for me. But. But. But yeah, I picked the guitar over a car that actually happened. So anyway, so. So I'm at the Guitars etc. In Tucson, Arizona. I'm trying to get the RG770. And I said, I'll take that guitar. That's the one I want. And my mother said, And I probably. I feel bad if I told the story before, but I still was like, I think it's relevant to your. Your question. My mother not understanding the market and understanding that her son is not the brightest, you know, thing I don't know. She's like, I don't know. She. She doesn't know what she's buying. She's buying a guitar for. At the time was like almost $800, which is like insane amount of money back then. It's an insane amount of money now. It was a lot of money. Like, this was a big purchase for my mother. And my mom's like. So she asked the salesman who at the time was probably 25, right? So for perspective, right? So he. She says, is this the best Guitar for this price. Is this a good guitar? Is this a good guitar? And then he said the thing that I hate about myself now and I don't like him for, which is he says, no, you should buy an American Strat. These are made in Japan. And my mom's like, oh, what's the difference? And he's like, american guitars are the best, and the Japanese guitars are just. These are to junk. He's like, the inlays are plastic, just not, you know, it's just not a good guitar. I didn't want a Strat. No. Nobody I wasn't paying attention to at the time. No one. I was like, I wanted to be like, had a Strat. I want. I wanted an Ibanez. And I. I just couldn't handle it emotionally. I was like, I don't want this Strat. So my mom's like, you should get a Strat. And I go, I don't want a Strat. I don't want that guitar. That's this to me, Strats. All I knew about Strats, and obviously life's different now, was that all my friends who. Who had junky guitars like me, my first guitar was a JB player, was a copy of Strat. All my friends had honors. All my friends like me, their first guitars were Strat copies. So to me, Strats are like what beginners got. They were just boring guitars. I was like, I wanted something flashy and cool, and so I wanted this guitar. And. And she's like, well, the guy says it's not a good guitar. And I go, it's the best guitar ever. I'm trying to tell her, like, all these players that play it. And then she understood the concept. She's like, no. She's like, this one's made in the usa, Philip. The other one's made in Korea. In Japan, it's not as good. And so we left the store, and I was really bummed out. And she goes, is there another store you want to go to? So we went to Mountain Music, which was also up the road in Tucson. And we walked in and they had a laser blue RG770. They were not a Fender dealer. So ironically, you can imagine what happened when my mom asked that salesman. She said, hey, we're looking at that guitar. Is that a good guitar? He goes, oh, these are the best guitars you can buy. She's like, what? He goes, oh, the craftsmanship of Japanese guitars. He's like, their bridges. He's like, this is like, literally the best guitars you can buy. And so my mom's like, well, the other guy down the street said that the Fender is the best way. And he's like, yeah, the Fenders, you know, he said something salesman. He like, the Fenders are great in 20 years ago, whatever he said, either way, I got the Ibanez. So except for kind of in A Funny Story, my, my, my mom, the other store had it for 800 bucks. This store had it for 750. So I was like, that's better. But my mom, my mom goes, can you do that guitar for 700 bucks? And he goes, no. And she goes, okay, here's my card and call me if you're. When your boss gets in, if you can do 700 bucks. And we were getting to the car and I was sad and pouty faced. And then the guy like grabbed the door and said, we can do seven, ma' am, we can do seven. And so I got the guitar. So I got the dream guitar, but except where I got blue and I wanted purple. So the guy at the store screwed me out of my dream purple guitar. And it was because of what you're saying. He was accustomed to this concept of his generation of being the American guitars were good and to him Japanese guitars. And I saw this a lot when I got that Ibanez guitar. I got a lot of grief from a lot of players. They were like, oh, Japanese guitars, that's the Sears junk guitars. Like you, I have this snootiness. And when I say snooty means I desire the higher end guitars, I just do. Brand names are appealing to me. Manufacturer, in other words, where they're manufactured is appealing to me. But as a guitar tech for 20 years and as a YouTube channel that takes guitars apart and looks at details of guitars, I can tell you right now, those are not real things. Those are not tangible things. In 2025, they weren't tan, they weren't real. In 2015 or 2005. It's been a long time since the USA guitars and the Japanese guitars ruled the roost, so to speak. Perfect example is this. Two weeks ago, two weeks ago. Not two months, two years ago. Two weeks ago I got a firefly guitar, did a video. The guitar was $229. And I, I proclaimed that guitar is flawless. Not the brand. I'm not, I'm not saying buy the brand unconditionally, but the guitar that I got is a flawless specimen. I have it here at the right now. I would show it to anyone and say to you, you tell me what's wrong with this guitar? There was not a single thing wrong. That same week I got a $2,700 made in USA Nuno Infor, where they only make 220, about 200 Nunos guitars a year. Okay, so it's. And that guitar is riddled with flaws. That is the reality of the world we live in now. What the reality is now is it's. It's not in my experience, it's not where it's made, it's not the brand. When I'm talking about quality, it's really about how bad they want to sell you a guitar. And I feel like the more they want to sell you guitar, the harder they work to make the guitar be sellable to you. In other words, let you have fewer and fewer concerns. And the more the guitar is, you know, hey, man, like it or lump it. We're on a waiting list for this stuff. That stuff is riddled with problems. And, and I don't think it's true. In fact, I did a video on my second channel or I did a thing where it's like what I learned from, you know, taking apart like a thousand made in China guitars. And what I learned from that, and I told everybody in that video is that all the guitars I've taken apart from China, almost none of them have ever been exactly what they said. In other words, if they said it was mahogany, it was basswood. If they said it was stainless steel, there was nickel. Like, if they said it was bone, it was plastic. I don't mean every one. I mean in every single situation, if they said it was nitro, it was poly, there was always something wrong with what they stated to what I discovered. And somebody said, well, they have the right to change, you know, that's what their little disclaimers all say, right? The right to change the features without notice. I'm like, yeah. But I found in most cases the company that ordered the guitars to sold them to us, they didn't know it was wrong because they didn't look and they didn't expect it. That is fine, except for I would do an update now. I would say, honestly that whatever's happening out there, there is definitely a call to action for. And I believe it's the YouTube channels. And it's. I know it's self serving because I am a YouTube channel to say this. And so if you want to discount what I'm about to say and say it's biased, that's fine. You should do so. It's a smart, smart right Ironically, it's like somebody saying, hey, my brand is the best guitar. You're like, sure, of course you're gonna say that. I'm gonna say YouTube is the best thing. But I really believe that for some reason. Okay, there is a ton of brands that are watching YouTube channels and they're looking at what we're critiquing, and they're like, okay, this is how you make customers happy. You fix the complaints, right? So what I complained about, what another YouTube channel complained about. It's almost like you can see it verbatim getting fixed to where it's almost like they look at it and look at it, and we know they're looking at the channels. We see it constantly now. You know, I just recently talked about the fact that Charvel Guitars just released a guitar and they said, with handshake, friendly neck heel design. And, you know, I wonder where they got that from. So obviously, I'm not saying they stole my idea. It's just I just called it a handshake. It's not really an idea to steal. It's just, I think what happens is they watch content, like all of us, I watch content, and they go, hey, that's an interesting idea. That's a good idea. They don't. They don't religiously take everything that, you know, somebody says on a YouTube channel and say, okay, this is all verbatim the best thing ever. They're just saying they learn a couple things, just like we all learn from each other. But what I'm saying is I'm seeing it. I see what I see. And this is where I said, like you when you say you're snob. I'm going to tell you right now, I'm not excited about it, not happy about it. I don't like saying that the cheap Asian guitar builders are outpacing and building better product at a faster rate than everybody else. I don't like that. There's no upside for me on that as a content creator. It's not an upside for me as a veteran, proud American to be like, hey, America makes the best guitars. That's something I want to say, you know, wherever you live. I don't care where you live. Wherever you live, you want to say your thing is the best thing, too. We all want to be winners. I want to say American guitars are the best. I can't say that honestly. And it gets worse each year. I can honestly share with you guys. I've seen this. I can tell you, you can watch my content, just mine. Much less Other content and see, over the last eight years, progressively expensive guitars on my channel have gotten worse. If you look at what I was picking at five years ago, which I'm picking on now, I'm picking on way more things now. There's way more problems I'm seeing. And I don't know if it's like I said, sometimes I feel like they're rushing the employees. I feel like sometimes it's a rush to get product out. I. Sometimes it's cost cutting measures. I don't know what it is. But the reality is I'm just using a price point as a example. A $300 made in China guitar five years ago and a $300 made in China guitar now. I don't. Even with inflation, I'm talking about even at $300 now. 300 here. The 301 now is better. A $3,000 USA guitar five years ago and a $3,000 USA guitar now. It was better five years ago. That is absolutely what I see. So that's what I see. Is that absolute. No, like I said, no broad strokes. Not everything is included in that. But I see, I see where we're all still a little stuck with country of origin. You know, I see it every day in the comment sections and I get it. Notice I don't shun it. I don't say like, oh, you guys, you shouldn't talk like that. Somebody goes, hey, I don't want to own a guitar made in China. I don't care what, what your reasoning is if it's political or if it's just as emotional as me going, hey, the holy grail was to own the. This guitar made in this place. I get it. I. But like you, I'm like, is it based in any truth in facts? No, not anymore. Not, not for sure. Not anymore. The. I mean, think about this. I'm trying to think of like just recent brands. Recently most the high end guitars I've. I've checked out in the last couple years at best. They do. Hey, not bad. It's $4,000. It's pretty good. Pretty good. I told you guys, I got a PRS hollow body too, was $5,000. And the nut wasn't glued in the right spot. It was slightly adjacent. And you know, I've talked about that. It was during COVID and there was probably some issues with the employees in the factory and stuff, but I don't get $300 guitars with issues like that. So it's an interesting thing that you see. Yeah, so that's my Input. So the good news is this. I, I'll say this and I'll probably say this till the day I die. Buying high end guitars, whether that's because they're made in USA or Japan or wherever it is that countries that cost the most, that's a luxury. It's a luxury item if you have the means to do it, you know, good for you. You know, it's nice. But, and I've said this, I think now, Gibson, for the most part, Gibson, Fender, prs. I'm clicking screens, too many screens, trying to get their main one. I, not only do I think they're luxuries, I think it's more of a collector thing than it is a practical tool thing. Practical tools. If somebody's like, I, you know, somebody's like, hey, I want a really good guitar, I could suggest 10 brands right now that are totally affordable and obtainable to get. And if somebody says, I like collecting nice guitars, I would throw out totally different brands. Like I said. I think you said, I need a good guitar that gives me the sound of. Let's say somebody says, hey, I want to play acdc, I've learned all their songs. I want good quality guitar. I go, just get yourself an epiphone SG toilet quality. If somebody said, yeah, but I want a guitar that's a good investment when investment not only just for what they resell it for, but just for time. And Gibson, just have a Gibson, it's a, it's an heirloom guitar. You'll, your, your, you know, your, your grandkids will be happy, you know, that you got it. I told this story once, maybe here on the channel, I don't know, but there was a kid who came into our store once. A kid meaning the kid was probably 16, 17 years old with the mother. He was very upset. He had. I, maybe I related because I just told you my story. His story was he went to a dealer down the road and they convinced his mother to buy him a BC Rich Warlock. They were a BC Rich dealer. I'm not crapping on BC Rich, obviously, but he is. He, I, she says, look, he's got this guitar, he's had it for two weeks. He's very unhappy with the guitar. I said, okay. She's like, I don't know what to do. Okay, okay, so let me ask him a question. I asked him, I said, what do you like to listen to? And he goes, I love John Mayer and Steve Ray Vaughan. And I'm like, why'd you get a BC Rich? Did you Get a Warlock. He goes, that's because what the guy said we should get. He said, it's a really good guitar because it's set neck and it has humbuckers. And I'm like, yeah, but you like John Mayer and Steve Ray Vaughan. And he's like, yeah. And I go, well, you should get a Strat. Like, that's. That's about easy as that. So I walk over and I point to a Made in Mexico standard Stratocaster at the time was, I think 499 retail street price. And I tell the mother, I said, this is a good guitar for you if you want to trade the BC rich. And I can give you like 300 bucks for it. And, you know, I don't know what you paid for it, but that's what it's worth use to me. I can put you in this. And she says, I really don't want to go through this again. So she goes, look, his grandfather played guitar. And she goes, and he wants to play guitar because he likes these artists, but it's because he wants to play guitar like his grandfather did. And I said, okay. She goes, he's really into it. He's been playing for a year or two now, and he seems really dedicated to this. She goes, I'd really like not to go through any of these experiences anymore. I said, okay. She said, if you were gonna buy something and never have to deal with this again, what would you get? And I said, I'd get an American Strat. It was 999 for American Strat. And I said, it comes with a case. It's $1,000. I go, but it's made in the USA and it's an American Strat. And it's. It's an heirloom. It's forever guitar. It's a great guitar. I said, the Made in Mexico is also a forever guitar. And she said, is it. Is it a really good guitar? And I said, well, let me put it this way. I looked at the kid and I said, when did your grandfather start playing guitar? And he said, when he was my age. I said, if your grandfather bought an America Strat when he was your age and he handed it to you now to start playing it, you and your mother would go to the moon with how great of a gift that guitar would be. I said, so if you give your grandkid when he's 16 years old, this guitar, that kid's gonna lose his mind because this guitar is gonna be the. One of the best things ever to Give him. And so she got the American strap. So that's. That's. That's what I mean by heirloom guitars. It's not that I. I said the American Strat's better than the Mexican Strat. I just think, like I said, it's a. It's this thing that people want us. We. We yearn to obtain for some reason, even though the main reason they. The. The reason they used to yearn for them is because they were quality guitars and you got junk. Now everything's kind of quality at every price. You just yearn for it. For all the reasons that Seth just said. It's the country of origin. It's the brand. But those aren't the tangibles of quality. That's the tangibles of what I said. It's a status. All right, Brian S. Says appointments to sell trade at Guitar Center. Is this real? So Brian sent me this message before, so I'm sure he's recapping it. So Brian lives in Florida. So you guys can share with Brian what happened. So, Brian, I want to say, two Saturdays ago, I thought, Brian, that's when I saw your message. Brian decided, probably inspired by the idea, to get rid of some gear and thin down the herd, he took some guitars to the Guitar center on Saturday in Florida. And when he went there, they said that they're not taking guitars unless you have an appointment. And. And he asked me if I'd heard of this. I had not heard of it, although I saw that there's. On the Guitar center website, they're saying by appointment or not by appointment only, but they're suggesting that you get an appointment. Has anyone had this experience? My first thought right now is the sand, the beach comment I always told you guys about. You know, look, you're bringing sand to the beach right now. They got a lot of sand. You know, the. I've been in two guitar centers in the last two weeks, and both, in my opinion, were loaded up with a lot of the same type of used gear, especially a lot of cabinets and stuff, a lot of stuff that, like, they don't need. And. And I know Brian has really nice stuff. So I know it's not a question of they didn't want his gear, you know, for the sake of that it's not good stuff. He has really good gear. But it doesn't matter if it's really good gear. They probably just aren't, you know, they're not in a need for it. This isn't to excuse the behavior. I'm explaining it I'm like, obviously I think it's bad business. You know, you're there, you know, you're. You know that sending you away is never a good idea, right? Just money walking out the door instead of in the door. But. But I'm more curious and I think Brian is too. If you guys have had the experience, especially after the show's playing, if you can put in the permanent comments, let us know. If you went to Guitar center and they shunned you away and told you to get an appointment, it'd be good to know that you, you know, especially since I have a video out there, it's like, hey, I went to Guitar Center. But I'd like to point out the. I think I said in the video, I hope I did. Pretty sure I did. If not, I'm recapping. You know, I went on a Monday. I usually suggest going to Guitar center, doing the slow days. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, midday, if you're gonna do trading. And one thing I didn't ask Brian was did you ask if you could just leave the stuff and come back? That's another thing I've done. Again, it's not always like the thing to think about, but I've done that at Guitar Centers. I come in, even they told me once, this is about a year or two ago, I went with some stuff and I said, hey, I want to drop some stuff off. You guys can take a look at it. Call me when you have a price and I'll come back. And they were like, well, we can do it right now. And I'm like, no, no, no, no. I'm not walking around for an hour. Just you guys do just call me when you have a price on everything. And they did that. So that's usually a good idea too. But I don't know if in Brian's case, you know, it's not like I have a guitar center. It's 15, 20 minutes for me. So it makes it easy. So it makes it easy. But mostly all my purchases with Tar center has been online. I keep buying used gear online from them right now. If you're looking for used gear prices, that's seems to be the best deals out there. Which again, I think it's because they want to move as much of this inventory as possible. They have a lot of it. Texo Cali station says hey, my fender tweed case spring loaded latches broke. I emailed G and G case company. No response. Why can these be replaced by removing the brads and swapping it out? Probably. I would imagine it's a Fender tweet case. Why did you. Why didn't. I guess you would contact G and J because they built it, but I would contact Fender, if that makes any sense. Texas County Station. I know what you're thinking, like, Fender didn't build it. G and G built it. But I don't know if G and G set up like that. In other words, like, you got to think the way I'm thinking. Just tell me how. I'm going to tell you how I think of it. I think of G and G is thinking of Fender as the customer. Like, if you bought a G and G unbranded case, now you're a G and G customer. In my experience, it's a Fender case, so it's a Fender problem. So you call Fender now. I know. I'm not talking about warranty. I'm just talking about calling Fender customer service saying, hey, I have a case from you guys. It's broken. I need a part to fix it. And then they should get you the part and go that route. I don't know. I can't imagine they're going to charge you more than what G and G is going to charge you, because G and G is not going to wholesale you the part. So they're going to charge you the retail no matter what it is. That's what I would suggest. Especially since Fender's set up for it. You got to understand, like, one of the things is like, G and G is. I don't know how big their operation is, and they're not really set up for direct sales. So to them, every customer is really the dealer or the manufacturer, not the actual customers. For the most part. That's just a thought. And so I would try that. That's what I would do. I mean, if I had a case just like the same situation, if it was offender, Fender case, Fender branded case, and it had a problem, I would. I would contact Fender customer service saying, hey, I have a Fender case. They're gonna ask you stuff like, where'd you buy it? Did you buy a new. If you bought it used? She's like, yeah, I bought it used, but it's a Fender product and I need it fixed. I want it fixed. How do I get it fixed? If they then say, go to G and G. I would then contact G and G and say, fender told me to contact you, and that might help. Katz Music Journey. That's a nice sign on says, I wonder what this is. It's 169 DKKRs. I have no Idea that is. I think that's like $4,000 U.S. i don't know what exchange. Okay. Says. Hey, Phil, I just finished making a narrow panel tweed style cabinet for my HB Hardly Bitten Tube. I'm assuming HP is Hardly Bitten Tube 5 with a Jensen P10R. Just wanted to say thank you for the how to shellac a cabinet video. Pl PS Editing. The editing and tweed corners are hard. Oh, yeah, yeah, of course. Thank you for. For mentioning that. You know, it's funny. I did that video. Stu Mack had me do a kit build and I did one for STO Mac and I did one for who makes it. Who. Why can't I think of the company that makes it? Because Steamac doesn't make that kit. They buy it from the same place. I can't think of the name of the company that does it. Mojo Tone. Mojo. Mojo Tone. Say Mojo Tone. Yep, Mojo Tone. So Mojo Tone makes that kit. And when. When Sumac sent it, I said, hey, can you send me some shellac? I want to do a video on how to shellac the cabinet. And they were like, they're like, why? And I'm like, I think it'll be interesting. I think it'll be cool. I want to learn. I want to learn to do it. And I want to share because I couldn't find any videos of shellacking a tweed cabinet. But what's great about shellacking the tweed cabinet for the amp, you can do it to your guitar case too. And it's really cool. And it did exactly what I hoped, which is my tweed amp now looks aged shellac. It. It looks really cool. So I like that 60 cycle. Steve knows that the. The DKKKRS are a Danish. Danish currency. Steve is a very, very smart person, if you guys don't know. He's like a rocket scientist, basically. So it seems like. So Steve, I just know that something that you would know with his encyclopedia brain. So that's pretty cool. Thank you for telling me. All right. Okay. Let's see if we can get through this one without any problems. Okay. This one's from Philip. It says, hey, I was against buying a guitar from China, mostly for political reasons, but. But bought a used Eastman T486. And it's a wonderful guitar. I'd say flawless, you know, Look, I get it. Like I said, I'm not here to judge anyone for anything. It's. It's, it's. Everyone's got to figure out their own life, right? That's just the reality of things. And so reason I say that is, that's my disclaimer to say, I understand some of you guys are going to pick some of the reasons not to buy from companies, sometimes for other reasons other than the quality or, you know, anything other than that. It could be political. It could be environmental reasons you don't like it for, and it could be philosophical reasons. Right. There's. I mean, there's all kinds of reasons not to buy from a company besides just the product quality. But what's funny about that is. And thank you for saying that. What's. What's interesting about that is, is I. I've had a weird experience, and I like to share it with you guys when it comes to that stuff. And this is where you guys might read it as though this doesn't want to be political. I don't, but that's not. When I'm talking like this. It's because I. When I work with a company, and I don't mean like a company that pays me, I mean, like, I work with a company, I reach out and I say, hey, I. I make content. I'd like to get this product. I'd like to work with you guys or just I go to events or situations. You know, like, I meet people. I meet people like you guys. I meet you guys all the time. I meet people. And when you meet people, it changes your views. The problem I have for me personally, and I'm just sharing with you, is, although I have opinions, too, about all kinds of things political, when it comes to other countries and other places and all things, including my own, you know, ranked countries and stuff. Country. The problem is, is that to some of you guys, you might see like, oh, this guitar is made in Indonesia. I don't like Indonesia. Okay, Maybe that's the thing. I'm not. I'm not. Again, I'm not trying to dissuade you from it. I just want you to understand my way of thinking. I don't think of it that way. I think, oh, Jun is a good person who loves guitars. When I think of China, I think of Roger likes guitars. You know, I know this person who likes building guitars, and they just happen to live in China. And to me, it's not a political thing anymore. For me, it becomes like a. When somebody's like, oh, I hate that guitar. Because I hate that country's policies again, I'm like, yeah, but the person that made the guitars, if you met him, he's just like, you and me, he's just really into guitar and he wants to hang out and talk guitar on Friday. And so that it makes the world a lot smaller for me when I. Because I deal with the people in it. And so it does change the way I think about a lot of things, but I still have a lot of opinions about stuff. So, you know. But again, I like to stick to the channel with we grade the quality and grading the quality. That's where I've landed. I've told you guys. Amanda says, people meet me. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know. Like I said, everybody do what makes you happy. Now, if you're here on a Friday, you look, everybody's aware. The world's a mess all the time, and sometimes worse times than others. If we're here now, it's because we all love guitars. And this is what we want to talk about, at least for a couple hours, and then back to the real world. Okay, so let's talk about. Oh, this is fun. Oh, Mr. S taking us in a different direction. He says, have you and Shauna seen Tremors? Of course. Of course. It's one of the greatest movies of all time. Is it my top 10? It's in my top 20. I like tremors so much that I like all the other Tremors movies, even though I probably shouldn't like any of them. She doesn't see those as scary movies. I don't know how Shauna has. I don't know if she has opinions about Tremor movies. She just knows that me and Ralph love Tremors, like, a lot. Absolutely love. Oh, she loves Tremors because she loves Reba McIntyre. So do I, by the way. And I took her to see Rheaver McIntyre in concert when we were, like, in our 20s and Reba McIntyre did a montage of songs, and she had a giant inflatable tremor come out of the stage. And so that was kind of cemented for Shauna as that being cool. So no pillows seen in Tremors. That's right. Tremors holds up. You know, it's about. My kids love Tremors, too. That movie. It holds up. And it was kind of fun because even though it doesn't take place technically in Arizona, I don't think so. Or it's by Nevada, Arizona border, wherever. Given that I live in a place that looks exactly like that movie, it kind of stuck with you thinking, is there scrap under the ground? Run around trimmers is a great movie. It's a great movie. Ralph took films. He went to film school, and he said that in film school, they show that movie as a perfect example of every scene Advances the plot forward. So there's your fun fact. I don't know if it's true. It's just Ralph, when he got out of class one day, he goes, hey, today they were talking about Tremors. And I'm like, what? He goes, yeah. They said it's a perfect example of a movie that every scene advances the plot forward. So, okay, we, we need, we need to button this show up so we can have play guitar for, for, you know, for Father's Day or whatever you want to do. It's Father's Day weekend and if you don't just, you know, play guitar. All right, Michael, I think this came from Amanda says, is China already capable of making consistently higher quality guitars than usa? Sure, of course. The way I would explain that is again, is it don't talk about the country, talk about the machines and the, and the labor. That's really where it's a function of. So the reality is, is that at some point, think about at some point you had different skill sets of workers. So maybe, I don't know how far you're gonna have to go back. Definitely as far back as at least the 60s. When you're looking at the American worker building guitars in the US and they're building offenders and Gibsons, you have a skill set and they're making guitars. And then they go to Japan. Obviously they were in Japan before that, but Japan, which was of course, workers are very skilled with working with wood to, to great extremes. You have a skill set and you teach them how to build the instruments. You know, a more of electric guitar instrument than what they were building. That is not the case anymore. Like they have to teach the workers how to build in each country because understand, like there's Haas CNC machines everywhere. Like there's a machine doing most of the work. So those machines, like they can just plant that anywhere. It doesn't know what country is in. It doesn't care. And I always use this analogy because I used it on a Reddit ask me anything. And I love it. Which is somebody asked me, could can same question you, you asked me, can a China, a factory in China make a guitar as good as an American guitar? Is it possible? And this is what I said. I said this is the analogy I love using. John. Sir. Sir guitars. Arguably people say sir guitars, some of the best made guitars in the world. It's, it's to the point where it's like that's what they're known for, is these, you know, amazing guitars. I said, here's the argument I would make if I took John sir and I took him to a Chinese factory and I locked him in it and said, you can't come out until you have an amazing guitar in your hands. I would expect he's going to come out with an amazing guitar. I don't expect him to come and say it's impossible to do it with the tools in here. Right? So it's as simple as. It's like any trade. It's the skill set and the tools. Well, the tools are fundamentally easy and available and they're everywhere. And so that can be done. And then it's the. It's the skill set. And the skill set can be taught. Especially since at this point the guitar manufacturers, wherever they are in the world, they go all around the world teaching the other factories how to do stuff and vice versa. You know, if you watch the. If you watch the interview I did with Jack Higginbotham, the COO COO of Paul Smith Guitars, he said that the Indonesian factory, which is Quartet Quartec, taught them as much. They. So in other words, he said Cortek taught PRs as much about guitar building as PRs taught Cortek. So that's what he said. Alex Gale says. Hey, Phil. Hi Chat. Could you actually recommend storing guitars on stands or in hard cases? Is always better. Thanks. Well, the advantages of a case. So there. So let me give the. I don't necessarily keep my guitars in cases. I put them on the wall and in racks. Most of my guitars are in the rack. These are for the display, for your pleasure. This is for you. As I said, if the day this YouTube channel dies, which is, you know, eventually some, you know, something happens, right? However this ends one day when it ends, I guarantee you if it's. It's not because I passed away. If these guitars are all coming off the wall, they're only here because. What a great background, right? Why not? Why are you gonna stare at my face? There's nothing interesting here. And I don't wear anything cool. So like it's a black T shirts and this. So that's. This is your candy. You guys get. But I store my guitars in racks pretty much like most players do. I keep looking at them because to my left is my racks. They're in these case racks. So. So my point is I store them like that out in the open. The advantages of keeping the case are probably two advantages that I can think of. One advantage is if you knock them over, they're in a case. So that's good don't knock them over. But more importantly, if you live where I live, where it's really dusty, because I'm living in a desert, the guitars get dusty and the dust is not good for obviously the electronics potentiometers or to be honest, the guitar in general. So that's the advantage. Otherwise I have no disadvantages putting them on stands other than if you don't use the proper stands and you have a nitrous, those lacquer finishes you can get lacquer burns. So that's it, that's. That's how. Like I said, that's. But I don't specifically keep my guitars case for any reason. Apex prime eight. Probably saying it better wrong. But I mean phonetically, that's what I see. I like Phil's nickel on, on the Helix day. Okay, we were talking about that. Good. Let's see if I can do some rapid questions at the end. Let's see. Oh, okay. Hold on. I don't know. Some of these I don't even know the answer to. I'm like, I'll rapid fire these. And I didn't know the answers to any of them. Like one of them. So, you know, the only one that was close was somebody asked me, was asking me about a fan frag guitar. Who makes the best. I don't know who makes the best fan freight guitar. I played a bunch of fanfare guitars, but I don't necessarily remember any one of them being super better than the others. I can tell you when it comes to fanfare guitars, the ten years ago when I would work on fan Fred guitars, they were a disaster because a lot of times, you know, they were still working out. I mean they meaning most of the builders still working out how to seat the frets correctly and do stuff. I mean it was just new, a new way of doing stuff. But now it seems like there is on the average, you know, you pull them out of the box and they're as good as any other frets. But so you know, that's actually not even fan frets. You know, the big deal was eight string guitars. When eight strings came out, it was hell. Because you know you get guys buying eight string guitars and unless they bought a super expensive dialed in eight string, you were always working on them because they could never get the frets all level because they were so long and, and you know, just. It's a lot more wood, it's a lot more problems. More fret, more wood, more problems. So yeah, fast Friday 33 says Phil. The current guitar count in your house about 10. I don't know what's behind me. That question never works. The only way to answer the question is what's in my personal collection versus what's here physically, you know, because there's always a crap ton of stuff here physically for video content or feedback for guitar companies. There's all kinds of stuff. You know, that's the thing, you do a lot of layers. In other words, you know, I'm not just making content. Sometimes I'm just looking at guitars or giving feedback or I, you know, I've acquired something for some reason because I have an idea for something. I don't know how many guitars are here, but let's just say it's not hundreds or hundred guitars. Nothing, you know, like that level. But I did a Sweetwater sponsored a video a few years back where it says my guitar collection. All of that video is not entirely accurate anymore. You could say 10% of those guitars are gone in exchange with something else. That number is probably whatever I have now. I can't imagine I have. I know I don't have more. I could have a few less. Christian Kristen Daring says, what's the best Father's Day you ever got? Father's Day gift you ever got? Well, I got a. I think the best one. I don't have it. I don't know what are the odds that I have it in the phone right now? Because I had it. But as you know, I have one of my phones is at the bottom of a river, so not all my photos are on the phone like they're supposed to be. It's not on here, so I don't have it. And it was on this on the phone. So not to keep you in suspense, I'll talk while I'm scanning for it if that helps. But I doubt I'll find it. My daughter made me this poster and it was hilarious. So my daughter likes to be funny. She's both. My kids are funny different ways. My son's more dad humor. My daughter's more Richard Pryor humor. A little on the edge. She's a little edgy. She got me a shirt. I'm gonna curse. So plug your ears kids, because I have no way to explain it other than cursing. My. My daughter got me a shirt this Father's Day that says me and my daughter talk shit about you. That's the shirt she got me. She's just wired that way. But she made me a poster one year and it was with all had candy bars on it and. And she wrote like A whole paragraph to me and used the candy bars. And the candy bars were all like, you know, I am your baby. And it was like a Baby Ruth. Right. And it's like, you are my daddy. And it was a daddy candy bar. You get it? It was just funny as hell. So that one sticks out as a. As a gift. So I'm not gonna find it. This is gonna be another hour. Sorry. Otherwise it would be in. Somebody says gravy. Yeah, like a gravy for Father's Day. So. But. But those are some ones that stick out, you know, as gifts, so to speak. I'm very lucky. Both my kids, they usually work in a team sometimes to get me stuff for holidays and Father's Day and stuff. They. They like, think. They. They think things, you know, they kind of plan it out like there's a reason for it. Like they'll get me, you know, like army of Darkness, you know, merch or something. It's always like something that's thought about. Yeah. Like, I don't know. Yeah. You know, it's funny. Some of you guys are Butterfinger, Chunky. It's. It's hilarious. Whatever it is, when you read it, you laugh because it was put out smart. Very well. And I feel bad, but I'm not gonna find it. All right, let's do one last thing because we're. We're actually in the bonus time. Let me just see if I missed a super chat while I'm looking for the super chat. If you hung out to the end of this show, you maybe, maybe a fan of it. So if you are a fan of it, maybe give it a thumbs up and subscribe. If you haven't. Also, you can think about Patreon. So, you know, tomorrow we're doing a clinic for the $10 and up tier and we're doing the coffee hang with Phil for the $25 tier. Bonus podcast I think is next for Saturday for $5 tier. Or if you want, you can just join for free. And we share some stuff with you guys. And more importantly, we give you guys. We let you know the two things you guys get, which is kind. If you sign up for free on Patreon, you get some bonus stuff. Don't. Don't. You won't be amazed for the price you paid. You're not going to be like, wow, this is a deal. It's free. Right. But you do get notified when a video comes out. But the new feature is you get the title that doesn't have the clickbaity stuff on it. Because obviously you're a fan of the channel. So think about this. If you hate the clickbait title videos, that pretty much are what all of us are forced to do to get anybody to click on a video anymore. Because we're competing with, you know, everything that's on YouTube, right? We now give that. The video notification to you through Patreon for free. And it has the boring title attached to it. So you go, oh, this is what the video is actually, you know, not actually about. But there's no sensationalism to the title. So I don't know, I thought that would be a nice feature to give to everybody for free. Right? I mean, there you go. You know, for those that go, I hate these titles, why don't you just say it's a toaster oven or whatever. I'm like, okay, now the video is called toaster oven. Christian says, hey, what's the. Oh, I already did this one. That's it. That's all the questions we got. I was told I missed a super chat from last week, and I'm gonna try and grab it right now, and if I do, great, and if not, I will grab it for next week. And this is. I pretty sure I don't. I don't see it. So I apologize. I just want you to know, the one that sent it, the moderators have been messaging me telling me, hey, I'm missing one from last week and I'm still not seeing it. But that's because I'm scrolling fast looking. And my. Like I said, if I miss one. Hold on. If I miss one. Oh, I'm pretty sure this is it from Dr. Mimbalzic with a Z. Says, I gotta use epiphone. Rivera plated as. As is for a while, then lowered the tuna matic bridge. And I swear it resonates so much more now just imagining it. Am I just imagining it? I think that's what he's asking. No, I think about this, you know, when the people talk about tone wood again, you know, right. This kind of ties in. Do I believe in tone wood? Like I said, I believe everything has some kind of effect. It's just, you know, like I said, how much percentage do you want to assign to that to me? The strings are. They're the. They're paramount. Because, I mean, if you take a guitar and it has no strings, it's not a guitar. It's everything but a guitar. It's just a slab of wood or two slabs of wood bolted together with screws. So the strings are very Important. So obviously what the strings do is very important. So in other words, how they vibrate, how well you know they don't vibrate, but you understand how they move, how you know what. Whether something is impeding them, like a high fret or how much of an angle they have a break angle, how much tension is over the nut, how much tension is over the bridge. So, yes, I have experienced this many times with not only customers guitars, but my personal guitars many times where adjusting the bridge, and it could be all of the things raising it up, changing the angle, pushing it down, have effects on the overall feel and sound of the guitar. And usually in a positive, like, resonant way, like you said, like, there's more vibration being transferred. And I think that is. I don't think you're imagining at all. Do I know that in your case it happened? I don't, but. You're asking me. Are you crazy? Not really. You're asking me if you've imagined it, but I'm telling you, no, it's possible. I've experienced it many times. Even with bridges, like Floyd, Rose or Tremolo bridges, just for some reason, like, adjusting the height or angle sometimes has a dramatic effect on the way that all of a sudden the guitar resonates. And it's as simple as that. I actually think that sometimes has more to do, or not more to do, more effect than what people give, you know, to attribute. Like, hey, if you put a brass block, you get more sustained. I'm like, well, to me, sometimes just the angle of the string or just again where the bridge is positioned could have as much effect on that. Yeah, absolutely. It also changes the way it feels. Sometimes you can have vibrato really stiff, and then you change or lower the bridge or raise it and tune it back up. And then all of a sudden you're like, wow, this is really nice. I got a lot more. Less tension when I feel like I'm bending. So, Dougal Dog, we're gonna end on his. He said, today I learned on Know youw Gear that strings are important. Yes. See? And that's the best. I'll say it and we'll end on this note. I think that one of the most important things on the guitar is the strings. And what's great about that, it's one of the least expensive things you can buy. Which is why I tell you guys, please experiment with your strings. You'll notice it's huge differences. Not just gauges, materials. Have some fun out there with it. You know, I've just recently learned to love on acoustic guitars hybrid sets. I'm now I used to play 11s because I don't like the 12s and now I'm playing a 10 to 11 hybrid. In other words like so the first three are off the 10 gauge set of acoustics and this and the next three are off the 11 gauge set and I'm loving it. Some of you guys will hate it but I loved it so alright. Okay. All right guys. As always I want to thank you guys so much for supporting the channel. Check out the shirt if you want to get on the limited edition shirt and you guys have an amazing weekend and play some guitar and as always know your gear and if you're learning something or having a good time, don't forget you can subscribe for free and help this channel or for $10 a month you can join me on Patreon for live clinics where you can ask questions every single week.