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I like the idea of taking photos beforehand, before handing it off to a luthier. Can seem like overkill but otherwise its only 'he said, she said' and you have no authority to ask for a refund or to have them remove the marks, if possible.
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That is inexcusable in my opinion. Very careless treatment of a customer’s guitar.
Not sure what I’d do other than taking the guitar in and showing the repair person (and then finding another repair person). Rb |
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That was my impression as well. I'd be going back to the tech. Looks like there is some white residue in the mark on the b string tuner. Might ask what color their winder is.
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You don’t want a power tool around any guitar let alone an acoustic. There’s a reason why fender tells you to only use a plain Jane screw driver when working on their electrics.
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Make sure you get the end of that screwdriver real hot when soldering the electronics.
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Headstock damage… by luthier?
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Yes, it’s an actual indentation in the wood, not just superficial finish damage. And yes (to gr81dorn) this is a Martin DSS-15M Streetmaster. While I see your point about this being an intentionally vintaged instrument, it doesn’t make the incident any less egregious. Last edited by NOLA Cajun; 10-25-2021 at 02:36 PM. |
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Yeah, i didn't mean to insinuate that it was acceptable to have it happened, more that it would be less noticeable and/or devaluing of an instrument that is beat-up on purpose. It fits the motif so it's not as distracting or awful as it may be on a pristine, glossy instrument, regardless of value.
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It’s a distressed guitar that now has some real life distressing. Not something I’d lose much sleep over.
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I have marks in the finish on the headstock of my guitars from my electric string winder because I'm not particularly careful, but even I can't put them into the wood like that. That is a major lack of attention.
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Oof that definitely looks like a power winder of some sort, and to make it worse, poor use of one. I have a peg winder attachment that I use with a cordless drill. If I'm at 90 degree to the headstock, meaning I have the tuner properly situated in it, it never gets closer to 1/4" from the headstock side, so in normal tuning work I couldn't ever cause that damage. But if I greatly skew it (so lets say your headstock is lying flat on it's back on a work bench and then you hold the cordless screwdriver at an angle where it starts to almost point to the ceiling...then it gets pretty close (but mine still doesn't touch the headstock, but gets maybe 1/16" away from it). So to me this could be caused by carelessness due to being in a hurry, if I had to guess.
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When someone else dings your guitar, it sucks. When you ding your own, it sucks. Point is, dings always suck but as it is purely cosmetic, you're lucky.
Regarding the future, I would not have that specific place touch another one of my instruments if I were in your shoes.
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