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I saw a post and pictures on the LP Forum from a chap who had taken his new LP in for some electrics work and was now in dispute with the shop. Next to each of the four knobs was a dent in the top where they'd used a screwdriver as a lever to pry them off. Then denied it was them and refused to fix/compensate.
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
Bit of trading feedback here.
Anyway, took it to the only store with a tech in that little south coast town and asked for the bridge switch to split the coils, whilst the neck switch would put the pickup in phase/off/out of phase.
When I collected and paid for it I was told he hadn’t been able to work out the wiring -it was a Seymour Duncan and a simple switch, shouldn’t have been that hard. Stupidly I let it go, paid the money and then went home and promptly had a go at the wiring myself and made it work first time.
I learnt from that experience to research my techs first and never to take a job to them I could do myself.
In my youth I took my relatively cheap guitar to Machinehead for a fret level. Barrie Palmer worked there at the time, but no way did he do the crappy job I got back, the frets weren't crowned properly. I was too naive to complain at the time.
A luthier refretted a neck of mine with stainless steel frets and the idiot put a fret in the wrong place! It was CLEARLY wrong when you looked at it, no measurement required. He begrudgingly fixed it.
I don't use guitar techs much at all any more, I just learned to do most stuff myself. I do trust Jonathan Law with stuff but he is a long trek away unfortunately.
I once had a guitar refretted where ALL the frets on the treble site weren't seated properly. They were sharp and the high e string would occasionally get caught under the tang. It's a shame because apart from that he'd done a pretty good job, a bit more attention to detail and it would have been perfect.
I had the same guitar refretted again by a very well known workshop and while it was much better I got the impression the apprentice, or worse, a paying student, did the fret ends - they're not sharp, just very sloppy and inconsistent.
One tech did a set up of my PRS CE24 which seemed ok until rehearsal one evening. He'd basically cocked up the trem so the knife edges weren't in the grooves of the screws mounting it to the body. A bit of trem action and the whole bridge slipped down to the body. That was quite simple to fix, but still, shouldn't have happened.
I'm very careful about choosing techs now and luckily I've found one who is incredibly competent and charges next to nothing. He does it for the love of doing it and he's always busy and always has good customer feedback. If he can't do something he'll tell you straight up rather than attempt and cock it up.
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
Bit of trading feedback here.
Other stuff I'm confident about, it's aways been doing fretwork which has frightened me.
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
Bit of trading feedback here.
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
Bit of trading feedback here.
@steverobinson
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself