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Location: Boise, Idaho | I need someone to bail me out. A friend played my Ultra GS and bought one off ebay. He took it to a local luthier????? who said someone had overtorqued the neck and broke a fret. He is asking if I knew anyone that could replace the neck. I don't understand what the problem is, but thought someone might have some parts laying around. It's a red body, so the neck is maple colored and the headstock is red.
I work with his wife and she is pissed at me. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I work with his wife and she is pissed at me. Tell her to make sure her next husband is a grownup. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Are you suggesting that grownups wouldn't buy guitars or just wouldn't buy more than one? |
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Location: closely held secret | I'm suggesting that grownups should be be held responsible for thier own decisions. Why should she be pissed at you? Did you hold a gun to his head and make him bid on Ebay? |
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Location: closely held secret | Ok, Mark, now that I've had my lunch, I see that you were probably kidding and I was probably overly harsh.
I just get tired of our society's view that influences are to blame and no one has to be responsible for thier own actions.
I've also spent a frustrating morning configuring the blasted firewall we need because the poor misunderstood hackers are pounding on our doors 24/7 these days. I either need a new guitar or some of Dave's Prozac.
Maybe Woody could graft a Deacon neck onto it? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Have Hot Glue, will travel! :D
I was showing a picture of my everchanging wall where I hang my guitars (there is a one wall limit) to a friend who quickly turned to his Wife and said "Look how many guitars he gets to have Honey"!
I got the death stare from her.
Sure I'm not responsible, but I still get the stare from time to time! |
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Location: closely held secret | Oh, sure, I know that look! I've just never been blamed for a friend buying a bum guitar that I didn't have anything to do with!
...now, if Mark had sold the guitar to him I could understand it... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | She was pissed when he came back from my house and was all pumped to buy an Ultra GS. Then I pointed out the one on ebay that he eventually bought, so she was more pissed. He already has about 10 guitars, but only one of them is an acoustic and it's an old Yamaha. She agreed he needed a new acoustic, but he went and bought an electric.
In reality, she was pissed at him for buying something he didn't need, but hoped he at least got a good deal. She was jokingly pissed at me for being part of the male conspiracy to spend all our money on guitars so our wives have to wear the same dress to more than one Christmas Party. Parts of this story have been told in several other posts. Most of it is true. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Over torqued the neck and broke a fret. Now that is something I've never seen. You mean broke the rod? |
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Location: SoCal | Mark, you're an attorney. Somebody's always pissed at you, even the people who work for you (hey, I know what law office staffers say behind their bosses backs). Have you ever thought you're too sensitive for this work and should find something else?
There's a classic line in a novel, where somebody brings a dog to an attorney's office and when the attorney walks in, the dog growls. The attorney's comment was "How'd the dog know I was a lawyer?" |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'm used to people being pissed. She used to be my secretary and was pissed at me all the time. It's all part of the game. Maybe her husband used my line and told her he'd start making money off his guitars when she started making money off her party dresses. On second thought I told her that right before she got pissed.
I agree with Bill, the story about the broken fret doesn't make sense. The guy he took it to just showed me their only "USA made Ovation" that was clearly labeled Made in Korea. I wouldn't trust him. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Got more information from him and his wife isn't really pissed at me or him anymore than the normal.
The truss rod may be stripped. He has a crack in the fret board above the first fret and cracks in the head above the nut. He took it to Bolin's, the local manufacturer of the ZZ Top and some Rolling Stone guitars and they told him he may have to replace the neck. I gave him my opinion to get his money back from the seller, but I'm probably getting more involved than I should. I do feel badly that I got him hooked on Ovations and his first experience was a bad one. I'm learning slowly that there can be lots of problems with guitars that I don't even know about. I've either been lucky or too dumb to notice if there's a problem with any of mine. |
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Location: closely held secret | He should return it if none of this is mentioned in the ad. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Update. He brought it over tonight. Beautiful guitar, but someone has tightend the truss rod until the top end has been driven into the neck, splitting the fretboard and lifting the nut and first fret. The truss rod is at least a quarter inch past where they should have stopped turning. We're going to check with Miles about a replacement neck. Otherwise, I bet someone who is handy like MWoody could fix this. |
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