Coda Music get a lot of good press on here and how thoroughly deserved it is. When a business goes out of it's way, time and again, to look after it's customers it's tempting just to sit back and say nothing, either because other people say it or it's just expected........that they really are brilliant in customer care.
So check out my experience with them and tell me it's not worth high praise and gratitude (very much from me).
I bought a guitar on Gumtree. A CS Tele. I had a feeling something wasn't quite right and that the middle position sounded out of phase. (If you're really interested in the back story and the very helpful comments from people of this forum about it there was my thread a while back:
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/112521/tele-people-advice-please-ngd-pics#latest).
The original invoice was still in the case and so I knew it had been bought at Coda. I checked their web-site and saw they had exactly the same model but a relic version (mine is NOS) so I thought I'd get them to play it just to double check there wasn't some deliberate out of phase, honky, country thing going on for this particular model. I checked the pickups and one was an Abby and one was a Josefina and after various phone calls the possibility was discussed that even one of the pickups had been wound with the magnets the wrong way up.
To cut a long story short Coda told me not to worry about it, to bring them the guitar and they would arrange for a correctly wound pickup (by Josefina obviously) to be sent from the States and they would then have it installed and set the guitar up correctly and courier it back to me. At NO COST.
I am not even their original customer and bought it used off Gumtree!! (so they had every legal right to just say "tough, sorry"). In the end it got taken to their tech and all it was was that the wires had been wired the wrong way round so that's been corrected, it's been set up and is being couriered back to me as I write.
I think this is an outstanding approach to one's business.
Mark Powell who dealt with this put it this way. "You're a guitarist and we like to look after guitarists".
There are a few threads about today about which shop to use for various reasons. I hope this speaks for itself. Absolutely first class in my opinion.
Mark, if you read this - Thank you once again to you and everyone at Coda Music!!
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As for "when am I ready?" You'll never be ready. It works in reverse, you become ready by doing it. - pmbomb
It is easy enough to reverse the magnetic polarity of a pickup but NOT while it is installed in your guitar.