broken head

[dcribber]

first let me say i'm an idiot. ok that's out of the way.

my takamine had a little spill which resulted in the head breaking, rather cleanly, off. i'm just trying ot get a $$ estimate on how much repair will be. there are not many shops in the area - ok there is only one - so id ont have the luxury to shop around. so i am relying on somebody to throw some estimates at me so my wallet doesnt get destroyed like my guitar.

dave

[cyberfret]

Hmm....the head breaking off.....I think that is a bad thing :)

I don't think you are going to get out of this cheap. I am not a repair person, but my wild guestimate would be $75 (US) maybe more.

Is the one music store in town someplace that you trust? Can they handle doing a job like this? Your regular Joe who just changes strings and does basic guitar work should not be the person who does this repair. If that means driving and hour away to a place that might be a little more qualified, then that is what you might want to do. Take it to your one guitar shop in town and see what they say. They should be able to get an estimate. Then you can decide from there.

Now my story.

I had girl take lesson from me for a total of 2 months. She had her first lesson, when home, and within 2 days had snapped the head off of her guitar. She had left the guitar on the floor (bad place to put a guitar) and her brother came into the room and stepped on it.......the story gets better.

The guitar is fixed. It takes a week and a half for her to get it back from the shop....needless to say no practicing is going on. Two days after getting the guitar back, she decides to take it to school for some reason. While waiting for the bus......you guessed it, she sets the guitar down on the ground, and someone at the bus stop steps on it. Breaks the head off in a new place. Now this was a cheap $140 guitar to begin with, but they repair it a second time. Now the next part you are going to think I am lying, but this is a true story :) She comes into her lesson a couple of weeks later. She hands me the guitar to tune and the neck is split down by the head......not broken clean off, but darn close. She of course has no idea how it happened. 3 times in 2 months, that has to be some sort of record.

--Shawn

[disturbed_pyro]

the only damage i've had was being stupid enough to stand my guitar up, then accidentally drop it on it's face, chipping off a bit of the nut.

hehe, i shattered my nut:p

[bobcat]

I don't suppose your guitar is under any kind of warranty??

Another thing I like to know before trusting a repair person is, will the repair be done "on site", or will the repair person pick up the instrument and transport it someplace else to fix it.

I use to work at a music store that was terrible about this! (We had problems with cars getting broke into, instruments get lost, stolen and heat damaged) My boss would have us take all of the guitar repairs to another guitar shop down the street! The owner of that store was a great repair person. He would bill us for the repair. My boss would double the price of the repair and charge the customer the inflated price!

Lesson to be learned...ask questions and get to know your local guitar sales people! :p

[Sandman_96707]

Didn't people eventually notice?

[bobcat]

Being the honest sales person that I was...I would tell people to take their guitar down the street! Nope, people had NO idea that they were getting a really crappy deal! As for the person that had the finished melted on their guitar...HE NOTICED! We had to pay to get that one fixed! That crabby old owner has since passed on. I suspect that he is trying to sell Satan a piano now! ;)