Top 5 guitar finishes companies always get right or always get wrong
What makes or breaks wanting a guitar or not for many is the finish. Now bear in mind "finish" does not mean the same as "paint". For example a "natural finish" obviously isn't a paint. It could be clearcoat to bring out the guitar wood's natural color, or maybe a stain to slightly darken a wood's natural color. So when I say "finish", I'm referring to paints, clearcoats, stains, semi-stains, "burst" style and so on.
Rich Recommends: Epiphone Wilshire PRO
People know me as a Fender guy (a Squier guy more specifically), so why am I recommending a Gibson brand Epiphone Wilshire PRO?
Play a girl's guitar and get YouTube-famous instantly?
This is something I wrote on social media, but it's worth a mention here because it makes a good point:
Was the music of Eric Clapton any good in the 1980s?
1980s era Eric Clapton music gets kind of a bad reputation because many say that the 80s was when he released his worst music.
The failure of the Fender Blacktop series (and what Fender could have done to prevent it)
On the Guitar Center web site today...
