Guitar Finish Hash Job... Luthier Advice? Thoughts?

[Fingolfen]

I'd picked up a body blank for a guitar project about a year ago. While I'm perfectly comfortable doing the electronics, bridge, etc., but I just didn't have the facilities to do a proper finish on it, especially since it was a body with a set neck. Went about trying to find a place that would do the finish, finally found one, wasn't cheap, but I sent the body down... body, back, etc. look great, but this is the hash they made of the fretboard and edges... I'm trying to work with my local luthier to fix it, but so far it's looking like the fretboard may be totally hosed... Advice? Thoughts? (Apart from the obvious..."don't send anything else to whoever did this...")

 

[jimilee]

Jeeeesus, I hope they didn’t charge extra for that. Did they know it was a guitar and so they know what a guitar is???

 

[Fingolfen]

Jeeeesus, I hope they didn’t charge extra for that. Did they know it was a guitar and so they know what a guitar is???

Apparently they're "professionals" at this and all it would take to fix up is a "little filing around the edges"

 

[drgonzo1969]

Some of the pictures just look like extra buffing compound left on the frets. It looks like he got too aggressive on the buffing wheel and took some of the finish off the sides of fretboard.

 

[drgonzo1969]

Aesthetically, ya they butchered it. I don’t think it would be difficult to sand out some the scratches so you won’t feel them when playing.

 

[Fingolfen]

Some of the pictures just look like extra buffing compound left on the frets. It looks like he got too aggressive on the buffing wheel and took some of the finish off the sides of fretboard.

It's actually polyurethane that wasn't properly masked off... and he actually took off part of the fretboard on the upper frets... it's impossible to roll it over at this point...

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

That... is some bulllllshit.

 

[cdwillis]

Wow. I think you'd need to pull all the frets off, sand the entire fretboard and fretboard edges down, then fret fret, fret level, crown the frets, and possibly install a new nut.

 

[Fingolfen]

Wow. I think you'd need to pull all the frets off, sand the entire fretboard and fretboard edges down, then fret fret, fret level, crown the frets, and possibly install a new nut.

Yeah, I talked to a few others offline as well and we reached the same conclusion...

 

[Fingolfen]

Yeah - moral of the story - don't use these guys: https://www.wilkinsguitars.com/custom-finishes

 

[andare]

This is the worst hack job I've ever seen. I wonder which spoon they used to do that.
I hope you're getting your money back.

 

[benny_profane]

Yeah - moral of the story - don't use these guys: https://www.wilkinsguitars.com/custom-finishes

I guess they aren’t really misrepresenting themselves here:

If you are looking for more than a standard or “Vintage” look, we will work with you to achieve a beautiful result that is uniquely you.

Really sorry to see that.