Dave mon I am not going to debate the sonic merits of HHG use with you or anyone else for that matter because, as indicated in prior postings, I agree with you. I think that I hear a difference too. And I love the stuff and use it often in my own guitars.
But I am also aware that I may be nuts.........  
I hear differences in different bridge pin materials too - but again I cannot be sure that this is not yet another example of psychoacoustics.....
I will offer this though - although Lance Armstrong may be able to tell which helmet is 1-5% more aerodynamically efficient I seriously doubt that I could tell which one is......
I also agree with you that some beginners are going to be more comfortable biting off more to learn, and more to possibly fail with too, right off the bat. So as JJ indicates everyone should do as they please - always!
But given all the variables, not knowing a specific new builder's comfort levels, experience, talent, or even things like economics, local availability or products, assistance available to them, and more - isn't a $5 bottle of Titebond a pretty safe bet?
There is a commercial running here in the states where a surgeon attempts to guide a patient through performing an operation on himself - over the phone....... True some folks might be able to pull this off..... but offering solutions that depend on this degree of proficiency, guts, what ever you wish to call it really in my view are not targeted solutions for the sweet spot of the forum when a beginner asks a question.
Perhaps our answers should be less of what could be done, in certain circumstances and for certain individuals and more of what a best practice/bet for any given newb would be?
Of all the kit manufactures including Martin, LMI, John Hall, Stew-Mac they all recommend Titebond or LMI. I wonder why......... The answer clearly is that these companies who deal with more first time builders then we do have had better success promoting the use of Titebond/LMI for first time builders.
Lastly - back to this myth question or more rightly put how often are we fooling ourselves here and believing what we wish to believe.
I have two recently completed OMs. Both were built identically to each other, braced exactly alike, same glue(s) used in the same locations.
I asked three people independent of each other to tell me if they can hear a difference in the two guitars. The only variable, which I would consider to be huge, was the woods used.
One person heard no difference. The second person "may" hear a difference. And the third person heard a HUGE difference.
Go figure......
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