Why do so many great electric guitar players believe that Tom Anderson Guitarworks offers the most beautiful, best playing, and best sounding electric guitars known to man? It starts with the selection of the finest and most beautiful woods from select lumber mills. They carve these woods into the most precise and comfortable bodies and necks found in the industry by combining old-world detailing and finishing techniques with state of the art computer-aided design and manufacturing technologies. Anderson then offers musicians a wide variety of pickup options, manufactured to Anderson's exacting specifications in their own pickup shop. The finishing touches are applied in the state of the art painting and finishing department, utilizing technologies pioneered at Anderson. This process results in a wonderful instrument with lush, rich tone that looks beautiful and "plays like butter."

Of course, it only makes sense that Tom Anderson would choose to ship all of their instruments with only the finest strings as well. That is why he chose ELIXIR Guitar Strings.

Roy Fought, Vice President of Anderson Guitars, on their evaluation of ELIXIR Strings, said, "They sound like fresh strings that have been played-in for 20 minutes, or so, to get rid of that first initial brassy/bright quality. They retain that "broken-in" new string tone for a month or maybe more. The feel is smooth and fast with a bit less finger noise. We have a test unit here, a Butterscotch Hollow T Classic with alder body and maple neck, that has the same set of ELIXIR Strings that we put on at least two months ago. Many hands play this guitar and it still sounds quite good. Tom has been gigging with them and is in love with these strings. Many good players that we have shared our findings with have tried them with the same results."

After testing them out, the decision to begin using ELIXIR Guitar Strings was apparently an easy one. "After all this real-world testing, how could we not switch?" continued Roy. "We are thrilled to be shipping Tom Anderson Guitars with ELIXIR Strings. Not only will they stay fresh in the store so when you try an Anderson the strings won't sound lifeless, but you may also find you'll love them for recording and gigs because they are so much less sensitive to loss of brightness. How many times have you been in the recording studio, using your guitar on track after track and all of a sudden your strings lose their clarity. You quickly have to change only to have them too brash sounding for the track and you wish you had time to "play them in." Now there is a string that you really don't have to worry about."

We couldn't agree more.

To learn more about their exceptional instruments, visit Anderson Guitarworks at www.andersonguitars.com, or visit one of their dealers to experience for yourself the feel and tone of an Anderson Guitar.