pet peeves: stupid things that guitar nerds say

Oh, yeah --

hard rock maple



First of all, "hard maple" is a generic term that simply differentiates it from the easier-to-work "soft maple"

Second: on the Janka hardness scale, hard maple is about at the middle, like 1400 or so, slightly harder than oak, ash, or bamboo (all around 1300), but less than more-expensive woods (zebrawood, wenge, tigerwood); the outlier is good old hickory, at 1800, but even that doesn't compare to maybe jatoba (2350).

Hard maple might also be called "rock maple," but sugar maple is more common where I come from -- and that might dent the macho of the typical guitar nerd.