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Agree! Properly done binding repairs are not “easy and inexpensive” unless very early and avoid finish work. Even then, the resale value has likely suffered. Many here wont care…but many will.
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Whatever it is that you want to do... do that. There are always differing opinions, on pretty much everything.
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series Have a super fantastic Tuesday!
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Thanks for all the feedback. Very helpful.
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Martin seems to get a pass from their very loyal devotees in a way that no other brand could ever hope for.
Martin should get all the repair guys who will be fixing some of them ( no biggie, apparently) and get them to finish the bindings before the guitars go on the market. How is it that this has been swept under the carpet for so long? |
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It comes down to ethics.....
If they don’t admit to this then they won’t admit to that and it becomes familiar in this day and age of ‘deny, deny’. BluesKing777. |
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And many here will SAY they don’t care…which I find hard to believe
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Have you seen old Martins? Or the guitars that Martin sales as "aged"? I think we like Guitars looking a little beat up.
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I agree. Many happy MD owners I among them.
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That poll, however, doesn't indicate that half of Martin owners of guitars in the problem period will experience binding separation. The wording of the question was problematic because it would naturally draw the attention of those with the issue making the results skew heavily toward that side. Also, the poll had no way of accounting accurately those with multiple Martin guitars from the problem period. All that poll shows is that half the people who responded had the issue with one or more of their guitars. Since the issue was already known, the poll did nothing to shed any better light on it.
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Okay, I officially freaked out after reading so many threads about the binding issue and called Martin a few months back to ask their customer service team what to expect as an original owner of a '23 Custom 000-18 should I see binding separation?
The response from customer service was both encouraging and relieving. Keep in mind, I am the original owner. CS told me if I experience any issues, call 'em up, and it will get taken care of on their dime. The person whom I spoke with acknowledged the issue and came across to me as supportive in terms of standing behind the Martin brand. I have no idea what will happen to mine. Only time will tell. Having a guitar with a problem sucks! It can drive one insane. I owned a '97 Santa Cruz H that took a bi-monthly trip to the authorized repair shop to keep it going and it was in excellent condition when purchased. After 6 months, problems became chronic. I traded it for an Ovation Elite and gigged it for 3 years with not a one issue. My point is this, the disappointment, anguish, and frustration of owning a guitar that is not right is real! The issue grows at it gets into the psyche and pretty much causes madness for many of us.
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