Heads up on a bargain- Relic Strat neck

xmrchi

Yeah I agree, we need a conclusion to this, only prob is he does not allow home visits even to collect a bought guitar so I can't see him letting one of us in, which is a shame, as even tho this thread has given me much amusement, not much more can be said, so maybe the plan of action could be just to comment and point out potential issues and discrepancies on any new guitars he puts up for the sake of ensuring people can read up on him and make an informed decision whether to buy or not,

Evilmags

mrchi said:

Yeah I agree, we need a conclusion to this, only prob is he does not allow home visits even to collect a bought guitar so I can't see him letting one of us in, which is a shame, as even tho this thread has given me much amusement, not much more can be said, so maybe the plan of action could be just to comment and point out potential issues and discrepancies on any new guitars he puts up for the sake of ensuring people can read up on him and make an informed decision whether to buy or not,

That is how you know he is a con man. No one who I stiffing you is going to want you to have his home address so you could take the issue up with him on a face to face basis. This simple fact tells us that he knows he is stiffing people. A snivelling worm and first class wanker if ever I´ve seen one. 

octatonic

Wisdom 4 mags.

Heartfeltdawn

Lew said:

mdphillips1956;301645" said:

Now it is time to ride my motorbike and sidecar to the next village for a beer.Thanks,Mark.................

Please tell me you added the sidecar yourself because you found the bike to narrow -_-

The truth isn't that far away...

Deijavoo

Hey @WezV, some lovely pieces there dude.

Although a certain Emerald Green one reminds me of a Cleartone Conversion.

;-)

boogieman

I'm not even convinced he's intelligent enough to be a conman. I think Mr Phillips has shown in this thread and the previous one that he's immune to advice and criticism, however well meant. The fact that he sees absolutely no issues with his work and ignores the continued offers of help speaks volumes. He's either breathtakingly arrogant or suffering with psychological issues IMO.

Adam_MD

mdphillips1956;301544" said:

it's only you bunch of theorists who insist (with no hands-on knowledge) how terrible my guitars are.Come on boys, wake up and smell the coffee!Mark.................

@mdphillips1956 hey Mark, it's really not just us. So you raped a 7 string eh?

http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/sevenstring-guitars/219119-raped-7-string-jackson-ebay-600-gotta-see.html

http://www.robchapman.tv/forum/threads/for-you-big-handed-folk.28839/

octatonic

boogieman said:

I'm not even convinced he's intelligent enough to be a conman. I think Mr Phillips has shown in this thread and the previous one that he's immune to advice and criticism, however well meant. The fact that he sees absolutely no issues with his work and ignores the continued offers of help speaks volumes. He's either breathtakingly arrogant or suffering with psychological issues IMO.

I've come to see him as the Karl Pilkington of guitar repair.

I suspect he's an unskilled narcissist with no self-awareness, rather than an elaborate joke played out for *someone's* amusement.

boogieman

octatonic;303973" said:

I've come to see him as the Karl Pilkington of guitar repair.

Lol. Spot on and wisdom awarded. >:D<

mrn1989

NOT THE BUTCHER AGAIN!!!!!

Chuffola

Oh for Gawd's sake! 

I can't believe that I only just found the FIRST thread by this joker tonight. It put in my whole evening reading it. Hilarious and yet frightening. Like The League of Gentlemen. 

And now another! 

Seriously, you guys tell me nothing!

I'll just get some wine and settle in at page one. 

horse

Chuffola said:

Oh for Gawd's sake! 

I can't believe that I only just found the FIRST thread by this joker tonight. It put in my whole evening reading it. Hilarious and yet frightening. Like The League of Gentlemen. 

And now another! 

Seriously, you guys tell me nothing!

I'll just get some wine and settle in at page one. 

Are you sure you've found the very first one? Feels like there have been quite a few...

Chuffola

I think so. The first one that Monsieur Phillips started anyway. I'd seen the previous ones about his guitars.

Entertaining reads...

mdphillips1956

Hello guys,

Someone asked or said that I appeared to have sanded off the veneer? No as far as I can remember the body is just as it arrived through the post a few weeks ago... I think I smoothed a few rough edges perhaps, but the strat is tucked away safe right now and I forget.

A few of my guitar friends have played the strat in my studio here and all said it plays as well as any good gigging standard guitar... but I don't say that expecting it to be believed here, as I don't want to become one of the people who either talk up their own work, or talk down other people's... I just make my guitars play as well as I can and mostly people who buy them give good reports... not always of course!

Mark.................

ps. Thanks mrchi for a pleasant-toned message... bit of a shock on this site! I am sure many of you are pleasant enough guys when not hiding behind inflated egos and safety in numbers; I am sure that one to one we could talk guitars over a beer and find we are not so different?

mdphillips1956

Hi again,

I just realised there are many mails from July I had never seen and caught up with!

I saw someone (I forget who?) say they were attacked by me by email? maybe I was stressed as I am not generally given to being nasty (not like you lot anyway)? I forget when that happened and apologise if I was offensive but would need reminding what I said.

I quite enjoy buying and modding strats and stuff, but I am phasing standard guitars out slowly so I can devote more time and space to wide neck acoustics and electrics... I might keep doing telecasters and basses and a few Frankenstrats maybe (just to entertain the troops!).

MIJ Pauls increasingly leave me underwelmed though I might not be able to resist one now and then at the right price.

Mostly I am just praying for rain and the end of the summer as I have hardly been selling one guitar a fortnight since this heat arrived!... (though a couple this week I think?) though fewer guitar sales has meant my motorbike and sidecar got its fuel injection and MOT sorted at the other end of my studio workshop and the guitar I posted on Saturday was the first to travel to town in the sidecar for seven years!

And is he willing to post/demo a guitar?

He is probably very happy to do it if he knows what is required?

Run it past we sometime Littlethoughts?

Cheers all,

Mark......................

Gassage

I feel the lurve.....

Rox

I think when you're talking about 'MIJ Pauls' you're talking about bolt-on plywood efforts (such as Satellite).  The proper MIJ LPs are an entirely different beast.

GuitarMonkey

I salute you @mdphillips1956 ;

You take all the abuse that people on here dole out and still keep being so very pleasant.

xmrchi

Actually yeah have to agree, nice change of tune md Phillips!

mdphillips1956

Hello Guitar Monkey,

Well it is very important for some people to feel they look tough and to display this to their comrades in the tribe... it is okay with me; I love guitars and I try my best to make them play for people as well as I can; that is quite important for me, while for many it is more important to look tough and to tell all your friends they know lots of stuff so they will tell you back how much you know... etc!

Why do I come on here to have the shit ripped out of me?

I suppose it's just to fight my little corner... sensible people a few years on have little respect for phoney luthier sites like this, but most of my guitar customers are still though not beginners, still at an impressionable sort of guitar stage, so I suppose I come to fight a sort of rear-guard action.

It looks pretty hopeless I guess: one lone voice against fifty who claim to be the top luthiers in the country... what chance do I stand? A recent would be buyer mailed me saying he had read on here I was the biggest rip-off merchant in the UK, but he wondered if it could really all be true so decided to buy anyway... he did, and it turned out he loved the guitar!

The people who claim on here to really know how dreadful my guitars are, are people who have never touched one... while most who buy and play them really like them!

This site seems all about snobbery: the previous mailer who calls himself Rox... to him made in Japan only means made in Japan if it is the guitars he says are the right guitars to be called made in Japan... everyone here seems desperate to pump up their own importance... the biggest cheese luthiers act like the high priests and the others bow to them but try to absorb some reflected glory.

To me I am sorry but they all come across as phoney air-guitar luthiers because I cannot believe anyone with a real love of music or guitars could be so far up their own... well you know what I am saying Guitar Monkey!

I don't get this luthier built guitar thing... I mean for ordinary people.

A luthier near me just says on his website page giving his prices: from £3,000 up... does he get the shit ripped out of him for charging three grand for something someone is just going to strum a few chords on? On here he would be the high Priest because he can charge so much; while I sell a guitar for £250 that probably plays just as well and I am a criminal and it is fair game to call me every kind of rotten bastard under the sun!

It doesn't worry me, at least it tells me the sort of jerks I am dealing with!

Well the great thing about the internet is that it lets people remain faceless while they construct what they wish they really were around their online persona.

But it's okay... just gets a bit tedious at times?

Nice to chat to a normal bloke,

Mark....................