GUITARS!!

[AmericanBuffalo]

You should change your strings every gig or couple of rehearsals so that sorts that out, but I see your reasoning 

I see you worked for Washburn, I used to like the look of their extended fret range guitars (was it ec29 or something like that) Didn’t they also buy out Parker guitars?

Had an American deluxe Fly many years ago, and that thing could play it self it was so effortless

Well yeah if you play everyday you should be changing them every week or so. But few do. Yes the Stephens Extended cutaway. They were just coming along with those when I left along with the Nuno Bettencourt model. So I had limited time with the extended cutaway. It was old news to me coming from Hamer anyway. Hamer had the Californian which had a 32 fret extended cutaway and the Virtuoso which had a 36 fret extended cutaway. So the novelty to me was meh. But they were fairly well received guitars and sold more than either of Hamer's models.

Now Parker thats a story! Those are remarkably fabulous guitars! You have to understand Washburn is part of a music distribution company years ago that was called C.Bruno distribution. That morphed into US Music corp. which was recently bought by JAM industries. US Music Corp. bought Parker guitars several years ago. US Music Corp. is run by the same guy who was president of Washburn when I worked there. They also have Randall amplifiers too and just recently bought Hamer guitar brand from Fender.  I could go on and on.....