[Kenneth R.]

actually, your argument is "these famous guitarists with thousands of dollars in rack equipment use this type of gear". why spend so much trying to fix tone, as i'm sure any guitar would sound awesome through the rigs they play?

personally i'd rather have it right from the start. if you wish, i can post an abbreviated article i wrote about guitar construction. as someone who researched this and built an axe by hand (literally hand tools from scratch) as well as being an engineer, i think i am qualified in my asessment.

just because mr famous uses it doesn't mean it's any better, but probably means it costs more. if you insist that bolt on necks and single coil pickups are better than noise cancelling humbuckers or neck-through-body construction, the only arguments you can possibly hope to defend are 1. single coils are slightly cheaper and 2. bolt on necks are replaceable.

tonally, you're fighting a losing battle. but then, if you have thousands to spend on an extensive rack and corrective gear, sure, you can get good tone out of these things too.

ps; before anyone brings up the subjectivity of tone, i am referring to maximizing the instrumental response, ie sustain and vibrational phase/amplitude.

oh and hey, i'm not ripping on evergrey or anyone who uses em, if i were sponsored i'd probably use them too. i just don't think they're the best thing around, and don't see what all the fuss is about.