[jtkung]

Here's a good article on the nitro finish myth. This is also BS since Science can refute any of this, backed by double-blind tests.

https://www.guitarworld.com/blogs/gas-ma...-maybe-not

Also -- if a nitro finish is so good and allows the electric guitar tone to "breathe" -- does that mean that all the guitars out there with solid finishes sound like crap?  Some of these guitars have pretty thick poly finishes and all sorts of other kinds of finishes.  And many of them sound much better than nitro guitars.  

Basically the finish on an electric guitar contributes very little to the tone versus other components.