HAd a REALLY bad moment today. Putting Xmas decs back in the loft - and a Chrtistmas Clock fell out of its box ---- straight through the body of my Avalon Accoustic......
Im 99.9% sure thats not repairable so its going to be an insurance job.
No idea what a replacement price would e. The Avalons have been out of production for a while, and this one was hand pickled by the guys at Lowden (when they were the same company). I believe I paid £600 or maybe £650 for the original (non hand picked) back in 2003. The origials top dropped after a couple of years - which is when the Lowden guys picked this out for me and retrofitted the elecrtics as the best guitar they had didnt have any.
So - Solid Sruce top, Solid Rosewood sides, Dreadnaught with Electrics (Fishman Prefix Plus). What would be of equivilant build/qualit/spec now. Obviously this is from a price perspective - Im going to have to try several to actually find its replacement, but the insurance company is going to want a rough cost. Its a new for old policy so its just finding what something like this would cost new now.
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My guess is that damage won't affect how the guitar sounds.
However, it's going to affect its second hand value... so may be worth making a claim
The other thing you could do is turn it into a sound port instead which could actually be quite interesting.
I think thats a really good idea for a repair, but I guess less so from a resale value point of view. the port could easily be bound in the same scheme as the body to make it look like it belongs and hide any laminations. fully repairing and (mostly) hiding it is not out of the question as its a relatively straight grained peice of rosewood
do the insurance company let you keep the broken item when they have replaced new for old?
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What I'm saying is you'll probably do well to get £650 minus your excess. Do you still have the original purchase receipt? If the last official purchase price was higher it might be worth misplacing it...
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I'd go with the sound port repair option personally, depending on cost. That would look cool as hell.
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I'm surprised at people saying this is easily repairable. Not that I doubt anyone, just can't get my head around how you'd go about repairing that. Is it a case of cleaning up the hole and fitting another piece of wood into it?
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The more I actually think about it, the more sense it makes (and the more silly I feel!).
All the best with the guitar, hope you find a resolution!
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein