But Hoss, once the absurdity is removed from your response, there isn't anything left to prove. It's a given!

Another pointless argument has erupted...

My OPINION is based on standard woodworking 101. If you can provide an irrefutable and credible engineering report that states otherwise, I'm all ears. Until then, the proof is not mine to bear.

Please show where I made any of the above comments in the context you seem to think I said them in and I’ll stand corrected. Fair enough?

I know for a fact because I read it on an internet site (so guaranteed, it's true) that if one uses mint toothpicks with a mint green pickguard, there is something in the green dye which overrides all other tone shaping factors. What happens is, not only is the player's sound good and clean but said player will automatically have a good and clean picking/fingering technique as well. Furthermore, this is the real meaning of a guitar being in, "mint condition", regardless of what many have been lead to believe in the past.

There is a 'catch' to all of this though: One must put at least one mint toothpick into the uppermost left screw hole and one in either of the bottommost screw holes of the mint green pickguard. What this does is it will ground by way of the shortest distance/path through the body's wood, the strap button screws' mint toothpicks to these of the mint pickguard, thereby linking these appliances forevermore. Without these essential installations, the guitar and the player will sound and play identically as before just as if no toothpicks were ever used. Of course, no one in their right mind would ever want to defeat such a purpose!

One more thing (same internet article): The overall speed and audible resonance of one's playing and the guitar itself can be unilaterally slowed down (if required) by installing a tortoise back plate. The best part here is, no screw hole grounding is necessary.