yup, I answer through email and accept html although sometimes, I prefer to just go in the site and look over the forum and just answer manually from there because i get tired clicking all the email messages.

as for the gold plated cover issue, i don't intend to promote or say that there is a benefit soundwise to gold plating covers. I am no genious about the physics, the chemistry, and all the other sciences that goes with gold and its sonic characteristics so I cannot formulate an answer that has to do with the karat of the gold. I can only make up an answer (in the form of a guess) that maybe, the thickness of the gold- plating- (not the karat or how pure the gold is), can possibly have an effect on the sound of the guitar. I just said this because I noticed for a fact that my sound became a bit brighter that's all. Maybe there is a correlation (at best, and not causality) that is at work between here- but I wasn't promoting the idea as if it was a fact. I guess there's no harm done expressing an opinion or a guess as long as you don't state it as a fact right? I hope I didn't mislead anyone. If there is a fact that I'v stated in this post, its the fact that it is possible to gold plate a cover with real gold. I hope there are no misunderstandings.