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Steel wool leaves little shavings everywhere, taping off the pickups is definitely necessary even if you're just using it to polish.

I've always had good luck with WMI produced guitars. From the 2000s I've had Hamers and PRS SEs made by WMI, going up to my Schecter Apocalypse (assuming it was made by WMI) and they've consistently been of very good quality. Like everything else they used to be a lot cheaper than they are...

I think the Helix is pretty great as a device and personally I think one of the best ways to use a Helix or a Tonex is by slaving them together. Remember that Tonex only does amp, cab and reverb profiling, so you don't get all the effects and routing options you do with the Helix. In terms of...

I have a Tonex. I pretty regularly adjust profiles to my liking and to my ear they sound great, but I think it would be safest to say that the profiles probably don't respond exactly like the real amps they're based on would once you start tweaking knobs. I don't really care about that as long...

I'm sure there are many, many professional luthiers and guitar techs out there who use regular triangle files. Only thin you might want to think about is grinding down one of the corners to make it a safe edge so you don't have to worry about harming the fretboard.

That's pretty nice. I really like the Evil Twins. I have an Apocalypse that I like a lot but I understand what you're saying because I haven't really "clicked" with a 6 string in a long time in the same way I instantly felt like the 7 strings I have were the right guitar to be playing at that...

Apart from the others mentioned, Helix also does component level modeling.

Yeah you're going to make a mess no matter what. You can see how much tape I used last time I leveled my frets in the pictures I posted, and I still ended up with a bunch of shavings stuck to my pickups. It wasn't a big deal to clean them off, but you're going to get metal shavings everywhere...

If politicians weren't allowed to lie they'd have to find real jobs, lol.

You've heard horse girls are crazy, but you don't know nothing about the hobby horse girls...

I get the point, a huge amount of why people hold the Universe in high esteem is because of its cultural significance and impact on music within the past few decades. That essentially is the point of the video, which I watched to affirm my beliefs, but it is definitely something we all know...

I watched this video this morning. I'm a huge fan of early Ibanez 7 strings and my MIJ RG7 is probably my favorite guitar. The early Universe models have always been dream guitars for me.

After my experience with the Baroque file, I'm thinking files that bring the fret to a peak are preferable to files with cutting edges that are perfectly concave and round. The round cutting edge just kind of flattens the top and gives it a school bus shape. The Fret Guru file I have now is...

Don't be scared, once we hit the bottom there's no where else to go but up.

After using the Fret Guru I can recommend that, but the Z file is supposed to be a legit professional tool so you probably can't go wrong with it either. Just regular 3m white masking tape works great. I get 1" tape and overlap or cut it as necessary. Flitz metal polish works great but so does...

I don't regret not watching whatever it is you watched.

I actually like that a lot. It's kind of like a very subdued BC Rich design mixed with classic vintage style.

I vote that the guitar is given away to the first poster on the 22nd page.

Apart from changing your pick, you can also probably mitigate a lot of your pick noise through technique. Make sure that when you're playing, your picking hand is as relaxed as possible and you're not gripping the pick too stiffly. If you have a kung fu grip and you're trying to muscle through...

And at the end of the day, are we really sure that it's preferable to good, old-fashioned warfare?