I am thinking about buying a JP6 that has a divot/blem on the top

[Tom Philie]

Does EBMM perform repairs like this? Like if I paid for the divot to be repaired?

Thanks in advance!

Tom

 

[beej]

Not really. You'd have to send the whole body in to be refinished, at significant cost.

 

[spychocyco]

I made an offer on that one, but was declined. It's a great price for a fully loaded JP6, but I know that scar would bug me. You can get a pro refinish in the neighborhood of $300 plus shipping (I did a little shopping around as I thought about it), but I don't know if they'd be able to exactly match the original color, which is a problem with the matching headstock.

 

[tbonesullivan]

Any links or pictures? What finish is it?

In general, finishes are hard to repair, even if they are nitro.

 

[spychocyco]

It was El Dorado Gold. It's since sold. Not sure if Tom popped on it or not, but it was gone about 15-20 minutes after I posted, about a half-hour or so after my offer was rejected. Seller was asking $1075 for it, so I knew it wouldn't hang around long. Had it not been for the scar, I would have bought it within an hour of him posting. It had a pretty good scrape at the top of the forearm contour with a couple of small pieces of wood missing, and it had been inexpertly "repaired" with what looked like possibly gold model paint that didn't match at all then sanded back.

 

[Defender2000]

I know EBMM uses the Kustom Shop line of paints and I’m pretty sure they have Eldorado gold as one of their standard colors. I think “Light Gold Firemist” is the right color. But there would still be significant cost to adopt the whole paint system(primer, base coat, clear coat, etc.) just to paint a one-off guitar. Even using all the right paints, I think it would be hard to match the headstock.

 

[BUC]

I had a local company (http://atomicguitarworks.com/ ) in Phoenix fix a bad ding on my Petrucci and I was really impressed with how it came out. You really wouldn't know unless I told you the repair. Those basswood bodies are notoriously soft and it's not hard to put a pretty big divot in them.