David Lindley might disagree.

No offense, Mike, but it's a free country, right? We are allowed to disagree with each other. And celebrities are not always right just because they are celebrities. I'm not going to become a Christian Scientist just because I like to watch the occasional Tom Cruise movie. I'm also not gonna buy me a Mercury and cruise it up and down the road with a crap guitar in the passenger seat.

I don't know about breaking from playing too hard but I did learn a lesson when I was a young man. At that time some older and more experienced players were teasing me because I installed a set of them there fancy newfangled strap locks on a Tele I was using at the time. The three of us went to this club one night to hear a guy play. The guy was playing a Les Paul. He let go of the neck to adjust his mic stand and the strap came off the button and when the neck hit the floor the headstock came clean off the neck. Nobody said anything out loud right at the moment, our mouths were on the floor in shock but after the show one of the old guys I was with asked me where I bought my strap locks and how much they cost.

I've been playing guitar for 45 years. And Fenders epitomize the tone and timbre of what electric guitars should sound like.

DrBoBo