The wide neck guitar criminal!

Gassage · April 2014

OK guys, hit me when I'm down and knackered on the train home

As John Altman would say I was just trying to look on the bright side of life!!

It is so fucking funny though.

Gassage · April 2014

littlegreenman said:

Quality blocking!

Look, any fule 'no that that is the fabled epoxy-block-wizard method. Fabled and if Fender had an unlimited budget they'd do it too.

ICBM · April 2014

p90fool said:

He's not actually wrong y'know. If, as he says, the strings are sat in an over-wide V-shaped groove then the excess protruding above the string plays no part.

It's ugly and unconventional, but it's not "wrong".

It is - not because of the height of the rest of the nut, but because v-shaped grooves are wrong in the first place.

A v-shaped groove will grip the string between the two faces, and cause it to stick, resulting in tuning trouble. The groove should in fact have a semi-circular bottom profile, slightly larger radius than the string, so the string rests only on a single line along the bottom of the groove. It will also then be self-centring and not touch the sides, so at that point it is true that the height of the nut above the string top shouldn't matter.

Except that you tend to catch your hand on it… so it's still wrong, really.

koneguitarist · April 2014

I was trying to think of anything positive I could say in this guys defence, but I can't !

Only thing you could say is a blind man would like to see them !

Gassage · April 2014

koneguitarist said:

I was trying to think of anything positive I could say in this guys defence, but I can't !
Only thing you could say is a blind man would like to see them !

He's a fellow Leekist?

I'm sure I've seen that same bridge block black epoxy technique in Coracle making.

randomhandclaps · April 2014

Gassage said:

littlegreenman said:

Quality blocking!

Look, any fule 'no that that is the fabled epoxy-block-wizard method. Fabled and if Fender had an unlimited budget they'd do it too.

It ain't the budget Fender lack you eegit..... it's the skills.... it's the know-how.... it's the vision.... but most of all it's the man.

blueskunk · April 2014

Bet this is the sort of thing Leo Fender heard when he created the jaguar bridge and trem :-/

blueskunk · April 2014

Could somebody please create a graphic to go with the thread name - wide neck guitar criminal. I keep visioning a muscle bound meat head, obviously with a wide tyson like neck stealing guitars

Gassage · April 2014

Just like Leo, over the road from Mark D is the fabled Celtic equivalent of fabled Fender sub-contact machine shop....Race and Olmstead

Botch and Carve.

marantz1300 · April 2014

mdphillips1956 said:

funstuie said:

mdphillips1956 said:

Hello,
And what a shock... and sorry etc as well, but I really cannot remember you or you contacting me about any problems with the guitar you mention.
Have I ever sold an Encore for £140? I rather doubt it.
Did you leave me bad feedback? I certainly have no memory of it.
If you were ten miles away with a guitar problem I would say bring it here and we will sort it out for free... even if it had been bought of someone else!
As far as I am aware I had always had 100% good feedback until a funny bloke bought a bass off me for £97 then made up silly stories and wanted me to take it back... it arrived back with its strings cut!
Are you sure this guitar was from me?
Thanks,
Mark................

Yep it was from you. It would have been very late December 2012, obviously I can't link to the ebay auction from that time as it's long gone as are the communications between us but I have been able to find the paypal transaction and I have to apologise as I got the fee wrong it was £124 including postage. I offered to bring the guitar back to you, I advised where I live but you refused to give me an address or time. I asked numerous times and eventually you stopped responding to me so I stopped emailing you.

I didn't leave bad feedback as I was trying to work it out with you before doing so but work/life got in the way and by the time I wanted to post feedback it was 4 weeks later which I figured wouldn't be worth it. I don't have time for petty squabbles with people on ebay. Luckily I could afford to write off £124 as a mistake so I moved on.

What have I got to gain from lying about this?

Well it sounds real now so my sincere apologies, although I cannot remember you yet, or our communications about the problem.
I was certain I had never sold an Encore for £140 plus £17.50, but £124 all in is quite possible.
What did you say was wrong with the guitar? Was it damaged in transit or just something you didn't like about it?
You could have just put it back in its packaging and posted it back to me... in fact I am very happy for you to do that now and I will fix it and post back to you.
I am probably over cautious but in having two kids and a pregnant wife here it is a bit too chaotic for house calls, which is why I settled for ebay selling with postage... and I would want to re string, re set up, and let it settle for a night then set up again the next day... so I want the guitar for a couple of days.
The offer is there; and I bet it will come back playing better than the one you bought in Brighton!
Cheers,
Mark................

A full refund would be better.Any chance of a refund?

Gassage · April 2014

Hats off- The pregnant wife and kids malarky was gold.

And clearly, he's failed to mention Stevie Wonder has been helping out at some of the nut-cutting and fret dressing chores.