Good and bad news about my JPX7 And more thumbs up for MM CS!!!

[mesavox]

Bad news... I live in a frozen desert right now, and the guitar was in Guitar Center for a couple months before I got it paid off. The guitar center in Amarillo is notorious for sprouting frets... they have so much trouble getting humidifiers to work enough. Just a product of being in this area really. Most finished neck rosewood guitars are fine, but unfinished necks, and even finished Ebony necks have such a hard time in that store.

Add that small factor to the crazy weather we've been having and yep... my guitar started sprouting pretty much over night.

The good news. I'm sending it in and getting a setup tweak, hybrid slinkys, and the frets fixed! We have a space between gigs so now is a great time, and I wanted to try and tweak the setup anyway.

MM's repair people are insane... everytime I've had to send something in because of normal wear and tear, the thing comes back even better than brand new. I think this is the inspiration I needed to send my JP6 in too when the JPX gets back. The JP6 needs a new piezo switch because it fell over, and a fret leveling...

It's weird that finding the weather zapped my new guitar has ended up in me being very excited about things. It's only going to take a few days and it will be even dreamier when it gets back.

Moral of the story... never hesitate to call your friendly MM customer service department... they seem to always tell me things I want to hear. lol

 

[lowliferumble]

Plus I suspect they will pack the JP7 with a bunch of guitar inspiration!

 

[mesavox]

We finally got a bit of a break in the schedule so the guitar is now in the capable and caring hands of the MM repair department! I had intended to get it in sooner but we had unexpected gigs pop up.

I'm very excited... I loved how it played with 10s, but I still wanted that slightly softer 9s feel. Plus, MM repair folks always seem to set anything I've played that has been in their hands up like no one else. Someone in that room is just SICK. lol Jacob's Luke is almost too easy to play now. lol

I've been back to the Guitar Center in Amarillo a few times since I got this guitar, and I think there may just be something to that building. My guitar did have to sit there for a while before I got it completely paid off. Most of the guitars in that store are sprouting, and I'm not sure it is a humidity issue because the acoustics are too, and there is a MASSIVE humidifier in there. I wonder if there is something in the walls of the building or something that creates a certain barometric pressure, or perhaps a natural feature near the building that just makes it some sort of unusual hotspot? The main tech at the Amarillo store is a longtime respected teacher and gigging musician in the area (and a pretty killer player to be sure) so I don't think it is a personnel issue or anything the store manager could even change. Just a really funky observation I've come across. It is just the sort of stuff that has made me very curious about how weather and atmosphere affect things like this for guitars. Are there definite knowns, or do some things still catch us by us by surprise because of nature's unpredictability?