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rodan
Regal
After much soul searching I've resolved the cracked neck issue... I took a closer look at the photos of the repair last night and the paint looked fucking terrible... He's blown a colour over the entire area and then tried to paint grain in, it's terrible...
Went up to see it this morning, he'd redone it and it was way better but I could still see the site of the repair, the whole area was ever so slightly darker. I wouldn't be able to look at it ever again if I left it like that...
So late last night I decided the best thing to do would be to get the whole guitar sprayed black and give it a new lease of life as something a bit different. Toyed with the idea of TV again and decided black was more apt in the circumstances...
I won't be paying him, I won't be dragging his name through the mud, we'll both walk away hopefully having learnt something from the experience... For my part, I've come away from the deal with a finish I didn't originally want and a cracked neck, he has put a lot of other stuff right but that pales compared to the crack... He showed me how it was hung, he screws a hook into the strap hole and hangs it with the headstock pointing towards the floor... Can't believe he didn't check the strap hole to make sure it was safe to hang it...
I also took him to task for not contacting me before doing the repair, he'd already drilled out the wood around the studs without asking me (it had been filled with softwood plugs at some point 🤷🏻♂️) so was quite happy to just go ahead and do his own thing without asking me, not best practice...
Anyway, onwards and upwards... Sorry fucking episode, I've been depressed, angry and homicidal in equal measure since Wednesday...
On the upside I'll be taking delivery of something that looks a bit like this sometime soon...
PS The guitar originally cost me fuck all, there were a ton of things wrong with it to begin with, the only thing right with it was the neck so it was never gonna be a museum grade instrument... I thought about legal action but soon realised the only people to benefit from that would be the lawyers, the luthier is a nice guy, I think he may have been a little arrogant, doubt he'll be that from now, and he panicked... I do believe he was trying to make things right but all he actually did was dig himself a deeper hole... Anyway, hoping for no more disasters between now and getting the guitar back...