jcwu
Senior Member
rappde said:Will let you know how I make out.
Just curious - any update?
rappde said:Will let you know how I make out.
Bobby McGee said:I certainly can relate. I recently purchased a D50CE (Carona) that was shipped from Nashville to Pittsburgh (my home away from home); when it arrived I felt sick to my stomache.
I realized that it was not the shippers fault, and I waited 28 hours before opening, but we think it was placed in the lower belly of an airplane and got real cold. I was given the option to return it for full refund, but after playing it I could not part with it, even with the checking, so he gave me a reasonable settlement of $100. I plan on bringing it out to play at the pubs, so it's probably going to take a beating anyways. I figure that it just adds character and have decided to live with it. Who knows, after being dragged around in the Canadian winter, it probably would have developed the checking eventually anyways.
Unfortunately these things happen and there is not much you can do about it. Try to accept it as it is and play the crap out of it.
Bobby.
marcellis said:So from my POV, there is no problem with refinishing an instrument. Any guitar I buy,
is something I am going to keep and use until it becomes part of my estate. If one of
my Guilds checked like that D50ce, I'd probably get it refinished.That's because I've never
cared about resale value. If I cared about that, I'd be buying Gibson & Martin flat-tops
marcellis said:It wasn't the checking that was the problem. In fat, D25 was barely checked at all.
Check my sig.
The tone was not affected at all from what I can hear.
I insisted on a very light finish application.