Agreed, but if you look at the logistics of second day shipping a lot of it depends upon warehouses and their locations. This is a guitar in California being shipped to who knows where. So second day shipping might be problematic even if someone got on a plane with the guitar and a big budget for rental cars.Thinking they could do 2nd day shipping after all of this
And did you ever say where in the world you are??? Because that's critical right now. i'm sorry it took this long but if you're in a cold climate.... shipping is dangerous!! Did you say??
I've got to say that I was impressed the way Guild handled a warranty neck reset on my then 37 year old '73 D50 back in 2010. It took them ten months, and originally they didn't want to honor the warranty at all, but they ended up doing the right thing when all was said and done.One of the things that appalled me when I studied Corporations in law school was the ease with which an acquiring corporation could shed the obligations of a selling corporation. There's something to be said for continuity, in those rare occasions when it exists. I prefer Guilds to Martins, but I couldn't help but be impressed by how Martin handled things a dozen years ago when my stepmother sent in her then-forty-year-old D18 for work under warranty.
Not sure what they told you about cold weather shipping, but I was pretty shocked when I bought my first Collings from Chicago Music Exchange and it was in the teens up there. They told me they ship till it hits single digits. They shipped and there was not a problem, but when she arrived here, I sat the box in the garage a while, then put the box in the house a while, then took the guitar case out of the box for several hours, then opened it about 12 hours later.........and that's not easy to do.It is cold here now, and I brought that up to Chris, who gave me some pointers on how to acclimate the instrument and avoid finish crazing from thermal stress. But that was why I was trying to keep it out of being parked over a weekend.
Ah! That reminds me!Not sure what they told you about cold weather shipping, but I was pretty shocked when I bought my first Collings from Chicago Music Exchange and it was in the teens up there. They told me they ship till it hits single digits. They shipped and there was not a problem, but when she arrived here, I sat the box in the garage a while, then put the box in the house a while, then took the guitar case out of the box for several hours, then opened it about 12 hours later.........and that's not easy to do.
Just let it acclimate if it's cold where you live.
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And although people rant and rave about Poly finishes.... Taylor and Breedlove ship all over all the time and guess what? No problems. Yet ANOTHER reason to abandon NCL. Ship any time, any where....So long as you follow precautions, temps should be problem. All the major guitar makers ship throughout the year to every state in the Union.
Well that's interesting. I actually had no idea what nitro Collings uses, or that there were a variety of nitrocellulose lacquers for that matter. I do know that Collings applies it very, very thin. Like .004" I think.Ah! That reminds me!
One of the reasons Chris recommended I take the replacement was that they have changed the nitrocellulose lacquer they used. They now use the same lacquer as Collings, and they say everyone in the production team likes it better.
And although people rant and rave about Poly finishes.... Taylor and Breedlove ship all over all the time and guess what? No problems. Yet ANOTHER reason to abandon NCL. Ship any time, any where....
Glenn... did you mean to say temps "shouldn't" be??