NGD - another CBS Fender (bit of fun)

[Telerocker]

Oh, that's bad man. Hope they take it back or give a refund.

[Philly Q]

Fingers crossed!

[FernandoDuarte]

 :? too bad! Hope it ends right!

[gwEm]

got my money back with little fuss. good guys.

[AndyR]

got my money back with little fuss. good guys.

Thank goodness for that :D

I wasn't sure how much of a battle you'd have.

Shame the guitar didn't work out though...

[Elliot]

There is this going at the moment

http://www.peachguitars.com/guitars/pre-owned-guitars/vintage-fender-duo-sonic-2-1965.htm

[Telerocker]

That's good news. At least some decent folks in the guitarmarket.

[FELINEGUITARS]

got my money back with little fuss. good guys.

Thank goodness for that :D

I wasn't sure how much of a battle you'd have.

Shame the guitar didn't work out though...

Glad to hear it turned out right with little fuss

they would have had to be real numpties to have made life difficult though

No truss rod adjuster and the thread stripped on the rod too
Frets falling/lifting out of the board

Not fit for sale really (without a HUGE disclaimer upfront)

Good news G!

[gwEm]

I wasn't sure how much of a battle you'd have.

yeah, i was bracing myself for a long and painful discussion

There is this going at the moment
http://www.peachguitars.com/guitars/pre-owned-guitars/vintage-fender-duo-sonic-2-1965.htm

thanks for pointing it out - i like it alot (amazing colour), however the neck is the 22.5" scale version rather than the 24" so i'll not press the button on it. i'm going to look out for a 60s Duosonic now though. I'm keen to get one!

[AndyR]

I wasn't sure how much of a battle you'd have.

yeah, i was bracing myself for a long and painful discussion

Now it's done and dusted, I can let on what I was imagining (I knew that you and Jonathan wouldn't have done anything major to it and still thought it could go back, but there seemed just about enough leeway in what I'd read for me to imagine that the shop might be tempted to regard the guitar as being in a slightly "different" state than when they last saw it... :lol:).

Gwem: Yeah, well, I've had to bring this back, it's not fit for purpose. Or, at least, not at the price I paid...
Shop: What seems to be the trouble sir?
Gwem: Well, my tech looked at it, and and all these frets just fell out (sound of rattling on counter) 
Shop: (Raised eyebrow) Really sir?
Gwem: And we drilled into the neck and couldn't find a truss-rod adjuster anywhere...  :roll:
Shop: Uh-huh...
Gwem: Oh, and by the way, it doesn't show under the plate, but we had to tidy up the routing a bit...
Shop: A bit?
Gwem: Well, it easily fits five humbuckers now...  :twisted:
Shop: (Pressing panic button under counter) Ah, I see sir, if you'd just like to wait a moment while I see if there's anyone here who really gives a sh1t...

I exaggerate, er, "slightly" for comedic purposes, obviously :lol:. I felt sure that you guys wouldn't have been thinking "refund" if any changes had been made that put it in a materially different state than when they sold it... but I could definitely imagine what attitude I fear many shops might have taken, at least at the outset. Like telerocker says - it's always nice to find some more folks with decency in the guitar market...

(I do suspect it's back up on the wall again though! Or is that just me being cynical? :lol:)

[Philly Q]

(I do suspect it's back up on the wall again though! Or is that just me being cynical? :lol:)

I think you're almost certainly right!

[gwEm]

Now it's done and dusted, I can let on what I was imagining ...

:lol: :lol:

we went to great lengths to leave things exactly how they were when i brought it. grateful to Jonathan's phone call to let me know things weren't right. should have perhaps guessed it wasn't in good shape from the skewed bridge, but i liked the idea of the guitar, and was happy to accept some faults.. not as many was it turned out to have though, with the frets popping out and no trussrod it was completely unusable as a guitar. there was quite a bit of ballache here - taking it to jonathan and back, messing around with the saddles, orders to allparts and bkp, but i'm quite happy to get the 500 notes back. i'll use the parts at some point though.

i suspect its on the wall again too

[jpfamps]

i suspect its on the wall again too

Actually it was taken straight to a guitar repairer.

[AndyR]

i suspect its on the wall again too

Actually it was taken straight to a guitar repairer.

Now that's even better to know :D

I was in shop a while back trying teles, and there was this otherwise gorgeous tele (think it was a MIM, so it was well-cheap for the guitar in my hands in my mind). I was close to going "yeah" when I decided to check the fretting of notes all the way up the neck. Somewhere round 14/15 there was a clunk. On closer inspection it was obviously lower than the others. Absolutely no way...

I thought I'd better point it out, I explained it needed fixing, and the assistant just shrugged and put right back on the wall...

Come to think of it, I remember trying a new Highway 1 strat a few years back (different shop), and the neck pickup was dead. It even looked like some physical damage was involved on closer inspection of the polepieces... same result, a shrug and back on the wall for the next herbert... sigh...

Thanks for posting that JPF :D

[jpfamps]

I was close to going "yeah" when I decided to check the fretting of notes all the way up the neck. Somewhere round 14/15 there was a clunk.

There's no money up the dusty end!