that we’ve had to have years of really bad finishes on necks?” he says. “No need. Wear it down yourself, you lazy sod!” Or, as Frank Zappa would say, ‘Shut up ’n play yer guitar’.

that was on all the old guitars since time immemorial – your technique is so dazzling, or you’re so uncomfortable putting your hand on that gloss, or you’re so affronted by it, that we’ve had to have ...