First, the use of the word, "Amateur" to describe what in effect is really the word, "beginner".

"Amateur" - from the French, literally, "Love of the Craft" the word has absolutely no reference to what you think it means.

I rather hurriedly jotted down the following post years ago over at Audiominds.com, and one of the webmasters turned it into a permanent article, "What's an Amateur":

http://www.audiominds.com/amateur.html

Then again, all the word "professional" really means is that someone got paid money to do the job, it does not necessarily mean that person actually could do the job better than someone else.

That out of the way, today's guitar sales market is better than we've ever enjoyed in the past. Use of CAD/CAM and robotic assembly and setup means that there are many available new guitars that really are set up fairly decently right out of the box, with a level of reproducibility that is very good indeed. I haven't seen a new purchase guitar that had a really "bad" action right out of the box in over a decade, barring the super el-cheapos.

But if you just want to assert yourself as being above others, you've done a fine job here.


--Mac

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