When you pay $3,000 for a guitar it's tough to admit you don't love everything about it.

As documented, my '57 and '58 necks are miles apart. OK, so they're different. Apples and oranges, right? But I think I'm having to admit that while I can finger everything just fine on the R8, my hand fatigues and sometimes even starts hurting much sooner. Hard to be scientific about that, but even harder to be open-minded.