[Ralph124C41]

I have a chance to get a good deal on a used older guitar through an online dealer with a good return policy. I called and talked to a store rep who looked at it and told me it played fine and had no structural problems ... but there were a couple of chips on the top of the guitar. All I have are the online pics and they can be seen but it's hard to say how big they are but the largest is smaller than the head or top of a bridge pin, maybe 3/4 or 2/3 of that size.

My concern is not the resale value or aesthetics of it but do these chips pose a problem? They are not cracks which could spread but are chips down to the wood.

As ever, thanks for your comments. I've learned cracks can spread ... such as the crack on my old Guild D-25 which one day resulted in the whole headstock snapping off when it fell onto my carpet one day.

The stated return policy does help me a lot.