Dead Guitar Strings and Coated Sets
What actually wears out a guitar string, a seven-year-old set on a Gibson ES-175, a recording guitarist’s heresy, and the arithmetic of coated versus uncoated.

What actually wears out a guitar string, a seven-year-old set on a Gibson ES-175, a recording guitarist’s heresy, and the arithmetic of coated versus uncoated.

The story of two Gibson guitars passed between father and son — a 2008 Les Paul Supreme in Heritage Cherry Sunburst and the old black Gibson that came home.

Fender built a tool. Gibson built a weapon. The Strat vs. Les Paul debate isn’t about specs — it’s about how you believe sound should be made and what kind of player you want to be.