NEVILLE’S ADVOCATE ...
Over the years I’ve tended to adjust to any guitar I pick up. I take it as read that this is what the builder intended to make and so I work around any foibles. It could come from my days at Gibson/Norlin where we’d often QC 100 guitars a day, then the same with CBS/Fender – plus, of course, the thousands I’ve played over decades of working on guitar magazines.
“There are players who are never satisfied with what the guitar companies present. Within days they’re changing pickups, swapping bridges…”