Never touch the stuff, myself. I've only played a guitar that has to be plugged in once. I found all that power at the twist of a knob to be addictive. I smiled. I grinned. I leered! I was on the point of being hopelessly lost!

Then I notice all of the amplifiers, speakers, pedals, consoles and such, had a passing flash of how much money I could wind up spending on a lash-up like that. I leaped up, shouted, "Get thee behind me, Satan!!" and ran off into the night!   

Since then, no wires, tubes, transistors, or knobs. A little metal in the frets and tuning pegs, nylon for strings, and the rest is mostly red cedar and rosewood. It makes a pretty sound, and I don't have to plug it into anything.

Don Firth