Uma Floresta

Meh. Looks super tacky, like a finish you'd find on a bowling ball.

He's certainly in the top 200.

The best factories get in the ballpark with a great recipe and then mass-produce cookies with great precision. That doesn't make for bad cookies, it makes for great cookies that look, smell, and taste identically with each batch. The best chefs get in the ballpark with a great recipe, but then tweak and flourish to different effect with each iteration. The best chefs get great results regardless; there is risk, but not much when a master chef is in the kitchen. And their cookies are a bit different with each batch, which keeps them fresh and interesting; and sometimes they're flat-out transcendent, sometimes spinning off new recipes. Unbounded unpredictability is usually catastrophic; unpredictability within tight constraints, as imposed by a master, generates novelty and sometimes transcendent results. In that sense gear is the same as music is the same as cookies. It's all about where you put those boundaries and who's doing the cooking. Trying to compare the making of products with the making of a form of artistic expression is futility. Gear and food have certain ground rules. Music is a much looser concept with a much wider range of what is acceptable. Bad food can make you sick or even kill you. Bad pickups can fail. Music is pure aesthetics. There's no practical aspect to it at all, unlike products. The experience of eating gourmet food is not something that would be desirable to replicate with pickups. Food is quickly consumed and not reused. Pickups are a reusable product that needs to be more predictable. Product X needs to sound like Product X consistently, otherwise you can't reliably purchase product X and hope to get any specific sound.

I'm done tossing to the know it all teenager. I'm quite tired of trying to educate you too.

Lol..Tom nails it with this one. What happened to your appreciation for courteous responders? I guess it only works one way in your book, huh?

You rely too much on non peer reviewed material young pup, either that or you write it:lol: Labeling theory hasn't been peer reviewed? That's an interesting assumption.

If you guys keep feeding the troll, the troll lives on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labeling_theory

That doesn't even make sense.....tuh:facepalm: You let me an Dylan down with that shabby retort It's perfectly in keeping with the line of repartee we've been developing. Mojo = superstition, your punchbowl = your opinion. The floater = cold, unpleasant facts. Or warm, unpleasant facts, as the case may be. Hope this helps.

I think we established who and where the floater is:lol: Yes. In your mojo punchbowl.

Wait...earlier you said they're all the same...now they're different. Go find some more buttons. *edit* 300th post...do I win a prize? Please try to pay attention. Reading comprehension is key. They're all the same level of quality. But they all sound a little different. Hope this helps.

It wasn't even my punch You only say that because now there's a floater in it.

Man I understand some of your argument, but that blanket statement exposes you as a button pusher (that's what you do for a living huh?). I've bought and installed pickups from DiMarzio, Duncan, GFS, BG Pups, Kinman, and Vintage Vibe. Out of all of those, the only pickups that have disappointed me have been from GFS, not to knock them. I have also had excellent results (ProTubes, FatBodies, and Dream 180's come to mind). The good have made up for the bad and I consider myself a satisfied customer overall. But lumping boutique products with the rest in terms of quality and service is ludicrous...of course you probably wouldn't get along well with a pickup maker especially after you tell him how easy it must be to wrap wire around the magnets for a living. That's just {censored}ing uncool. I've been disappointed by pickups from a variety of makers, some much more prestigious than GFS. They're all different. Saying BG or DiMarzio are better than GFS is like saying chocolate is better than than rocky road. Not better, different. Well, I shouldn't say that. As simple as pickups are, you can do it wrong. I've played no-name import pickups that were absolutely terrible. But at the level of GFS and higher (ie more expensive), the pickups are all made "right" and it's just a matter of personal preference from that point on.

Tell you what you keep the mojo sprinkles, they seem to mean a lot to you:thu: And you can keep the punch.

If you look between your legs you'll see you missed my punchbowl and shat on your socks:cool: I'm afraid not. If it helps, I can add mojo sprinkles to the punch. They won't improve the flavor, but you'll feel better about how much you paid for it.

If you think they're facts and it makes you happy then that's got to be good Believers in and disseminators of myths always hate a myth buster. Sorry to poop in your punchbowl.