Dommenget Mastercaster, 4200EUR, no attention to detail?!

daisie_guitar

https://ibb.co/9T3Q3Pv

Do you see anything weird in this picture or does that fretwork looks high-end? I masked the inlay to avoid biased answers...

daisie_guitar

I think this is the full-resolution pic: https://ibb.co/9T3Q3Pv

daisie_guitar

Nah, you have to click the "load full resolution" button in the middle to load it...

danishbacon

Crowns look a bit flat?

ICBM

daisie_guitar said:

I masked the inlay to avoid biased answers...

daisie_guitar

ICBM said:

daisie_guitar said:

I masked the inlay to avoid biased answers...

Not even close. My pics are taken from a brand new guitar...

Maynehead

Crowns look a bit flat to me as well.

Need to look at it from more angles though.

sweepy

Reminds me of the old Les Paul Custom. Fret profile

daisie_guitar

Ok, to me it looks like a lot was filed down from the upper end of first 3 or so frets, from right to left. like if the radius was not done right and the luthier compensated by filing down the frets. What do you folks think of that?

Wonky

Hard to tell from one photo from only one angle TBH.

ICBM

daisie_guitar said:

Ok, to me it looks like a lot was filed down from the upper end of first 3 or so frets, from right to left. like if the radius was not done right and the luthier compensated by filing down the frets. What do you folks think of that?

Since my attempt at humour didn't seem to quite hit the mark...

Although the photo resolution isn't good enough to be completely sure, I would say that the frets are unevenly dressed and/or uneven heights - for example, the 12th fret is less heavily dressed in the middle of the fingerboard - compare the 11th, 12th and 13th frets under the G string; and the 13th and 14th frets under the low E string - the 13th is lower and more flatted if you look at the reflection of the string.

Philly_Q

OK, so what guitar is it?

daisie_guitar

Philly_Q said:

OK, so what guitar is it?

This photo might answer that, next question: does that inlay with that much filling material around the abalone look like it's supposed to be on a 4300EUR guitar?

https://ibb.co/zWcq7xd

Maynehead

daisie_guitar said:

Philly_Q said:

OK, so what guitar is it?

This photo might answer that, next question: does that inlay with that much filling material around the abalone look like it's supposed to be on a 4300EUR guitar?

https://ibb.co/zWcq7xd

I’ve had £400 Chinese made guitars with less filling around complex inlays.

ICBM

daisie_guitar said:

This photo might answer that, next question: does that inlay with that much filling material around the abalone look like it's supposed to be on a 4300EUR guitar?

Still none the wiser as to the brand, but it's worse than the one in that £139 guitar I was joking about... and they were well-known for filler around the fish inlay.

The lacquer ripple alongside the frets indicates that the slots have been cut roughly too. If it wasn't new I would guess it had been refretted.

daisie_guitar

It's a Dommenget Mastercaster, 4250EUR, posted a link to its Reverb page, apparently that post needs approval...

daisie_guitar

Was trying to link to the picture with the back of the headstock showing the unaligned tuning machines, that comment too requires approval. 

rossi

I wish I could afford that guitar ...I would buy a better car with the money, and  a Squier Bullet hard tail.

Corvus

Flat fret crowns, crude-looking, scratchy/grubby.
Inlays prepped by mini JCB.

"Mastercaster" - cute name.

Philly_Q

Matthias Jabs signature model, I see.

Bridgehouse

daisie_guitar said:

It's a Dommenget Mastercaster, 4250EUR, posted a link to its Reverb page, apparently that post needs approval...

I’m not sure I want to approve them....