ANDRASTE

AntiFragile. Improvement through adversity. There aren't many things in life with antifragile properties. Denim. Leather. Ramones t-shirts. Andraste, Icenic war goddess was antifragile. Guitars, in theory at least, are antifragile... Too often, though, the practice is different. I used to own a Tom Anderson Telecaster. Beautiful it was. So beautiful I never dare pick the thing up for fear of dinking it. The inevitable day when the first dink happened I shed tears... Guitars don't get to be antifragile until at least the dozenth dink. This is something that US guitar maker Bill Nash realized back in 2001: accelerate the aging process and lots of professional musicians will become your best friend. No need to take the precius '62 Strat out on tour any more, take a new guitar that looked right, sounded right and played right. An industry was formed. To the point that even the Fender Custom Shop felt they had to chip in.