You guys are not gonna belive this! And yes pics are coming!
As I said before in some threads, I was gonna mod my EBMM Luke guitars to fit a tone control and passive pickups. The humbuckers already fit due to earlier mods. I got recommended a guy in Malmö in Sweden, the third biggest town in Sweden. I didn't use my reguler tech on this one, because his milling machine to do the job was broken, so I used this other guy instead, who was suppose to be very good ( turned out to be the other way around ).
I left my guitars last week, and picked them up today. I nearly threw up when I saw the guitars! I don't have pics right now, but I will post some.
The guy hade used a hand-milling machine to do the single coil routing, it looked like he has used a knife to do it! He had also damaged the finish down to the wood on top of the guitar. On the back, he had to start over the milling process ( probably used a more proffesional milling machine than a hand one now though), because he went to deep and to far out the ledge several times. Everything was crooked, uneven and very bad! The worse thing that he took to much at the ledge that the lid is suppose to rest one, so he had glue a piece of wood the the side of the cavity to fasten the screw to something ( which doesn't work at all btw ). Even the lid that he did doesnt even fit the hole! Also, the edge that goes from the finish of the guitar down to the ledge that the backplate rests on is 90 degres sharp, no rounding what so ever!
He wanted alot of money for the job even when it was so poorly done. I walked out of the workshop to get some money, but on the way back from the ATM I got mad, called a friend of mine who works in a music store and has 20+ Music Man guitars and explained how they looked like and asked for advice. I walked back to the shop, told him that he ain't getting any money for this sorry ass job and that he will hear from me regarding compensation. He then told me that is was a poor job and told me to leave. I then went home and showed the guitars to my ordinary tech guy and my friend in the music shop. Both agreed that the guitars where ruined and it was a total hack job.
So, now I have to 2 guitars I don't wanna use. How's the best way to go about getting him to compensate me? The tech guy and my friend said that the only right thing is for him to replace my guitars with Music Man guitars that are simular.
Thanks for listning, this whole thing is a bitch!
As I said before in some threads, I was gonna mod my EBMM Luke guitars to fit a tone control and passive pickups. The humbuckers already fit due to earlier mods. I got recommended a guy in Malmö in Sweden, the third biggest town in Sweden. I didn't use my reguler tech on this one, because his milling machine to do the job was broken, so I used this other guy instead, who was suppose to be very good ( turned out to be the other way around ).
I left my guitars last week, and picked them up today. I nearly threw up when I saw the guitars! I don't have pics right now, but I will post some.
The guy hade used a hand-milling machine to do the single coil routing, it looked like he has used a knife to do it! He had also damaged the finish down to the wood on top of the guitar. On the back, he had to start over the milling process ( probably used a more proffesional milling machine than a hand one now though), because he went to deep and to far out the ledge several times. Everything was crooked, uneven and very bad! The worse thing that he took to much at the ledge that the lid is suppose to rest one, so he had glue a piece of wood the the side of the cavity to fasten the screw to something ( which doesn't work at all btw ). Even the lid that he did doesnt even fit the hole! Also, the edge that goes from the finish of the guitar down to the ledge that the backplate rests on is 90 degres sharp, no rounding what so ever!
He wanted alot of money for the job even when it was so poorly done. I walked out of the workshop to get some money, but on the way back from the ATM I got mad, called a friend of mine who works in a music store and has 20+ Music Man guitars and explained how they looked like and asked for advice. I walked back to the shop, told him that he ain't getting any money for this sorry ass job and that he will hear from me regarding compensation. He then told me that is was a poor job and told me to leave. I then went home and showed the guitars to my ordinary tech guy and my friend in the music shop. Both agreed that the guitars where ruined and it was a total hack job.
So, now I have to 2 guitars I don't wanna use. How's the best way to go about getting him to compensate me? The tech guy and my friend said that the only right thing is for him to replace my guitars with Music Man guitars that are simular.
Thanks for listning, this whole thing is a bitch!
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