Originally posted by PonyOne
...another huge factor of the sound of the guitar is the player.

That's probably the biggest factor in making one player sound different from another. We've said before that player 'X' borrowed the gear of player 'Y', he wouldn't sound like player 'Y', he'd sound like player 'X' using a different rig.

My point was that identical guitars sounded different when the electronics of one of them was modified. Both are the same age, the same model, constructed in exactly the same way, from the same materials, but the pickups and controls bring out different characteristics of the intrinsic tone of those materials.