I've been pickin for 30 years. My technique always needs help I think *BG*. My guitars are quality to the max, in my opinion anyway, but I have noticed a significant difference in sound when I changed the bridge pins on my Mossman to Brass (then again when I put a real Ebony bridge on it it sounded a hell of a lot better also). I don't particularly care for the look of brass - but it did add to the quality of the sound over the plastic - but then a stick off a tree might have achieved the same end! *G*

My biggest beef with plastic is just that - it's plastic. Setting down with $1000 + instruments with plastic pins just isn't right. And after a while they become a hassle to change the strings due to the pins getting misshaped. I'm also going to work on the intonation of the guitar at the same time as well as build a new saddle. This Gurian sounds lovely as it is so I am assuming, from past experience with my other guitar, that these changes will only enhance an already outstanding sound.

Steve