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Blooze

Blooze

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Got this in the post today after waiting 5 weeks. I'd played one a while back while traveling and thought when I get home I'll order one. Lo and behold I get back and GC has them on sale for $499 in the matte black I wanted. So I order. Get a notice the next day that they are backordered. No problem, I'm not in a hurry. Last week I chatted them up to get an idea of when they might be getting more stock. They sent this one out right on time. Setup is pretty much spot on out of the box. I give it a good look over and find a dent on the neck (or a wood imperfection I can't quite tell) and the frets are all dull (see last pi where I "polished" the center of the top fret). Check out the serial number and see it's made in 2021 with an inspection sticker dated Feb 2021 on the control plate. Plays well acoustically and I'll have to wait till I get home to plug it in. My guess is these were old stock or something they had sitting around in Indonesia (thus the dull frets) or B-stock (the dent). It doesn't look played and all the plastic is on everything. I'm not sure I want to send it back over the little dent or some fret polishing?
 

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Shit man, that’s a pretty decent song. I’d send it back or see about getting some money off, like 15-20%
 
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jimilee said:
Shit man, that’s a pretty decent song. I’d send it back or see about getting some money off, like 15-20%
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The good part is I'll never feel it playing where it's at. I'm leery about sending it back and getting a worse one. Like, I said, I'll check when I get home, but it plays really nice just unplugged. I'm gonna send GC some pics. The nearest one is almost a 3 hour drive. I think it's still weird it was back ordered then has a manufacture date of around a year ago.
Big Monk said:
Is that roasted maple as the base wood for the neck?
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Roasted neck and fingerboard. Smells good and is slick as wet ice.
 
Blooze said:
Was able to get 10%. They weren't budging from there. Considering I paid $150 less than normal on sale I'm not to upset.
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Nice job. I bought a Les Paul from calling the number in the website. I asked for 15% off because there’s always a coupon floating around. The person went for that. When it came, it had a lot of tooling marks and asked for another 15% off, I didn’t want to send it back either. He went for that too. Then I sent the guitar to Gibson to have it fixed under warranty. Saved about $500.
 
Yeah, it's not like this is an expensive guitar to begin with and I'll end up dinging the heck out of it anyway. I'll take the $50 and buy a D-tuna for it :)
 
Barry said:
I saw a Stew-Mac video where Dan took a damp cloth put over a ding and touched a solder iron to it and steamed the ding out
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I’ve done that many times in the past with furniture and wood working projects. I’m not sure how well it would do on the roasted maple though. If it really bugs me later on I might try it. Where it’s at you’ll never touch it unless it’s on purpose.
 
Got it home and plugged in. Very nice! Had to tighten up the neck bolts and jack nut. Action is a hair under 4/64” and relief is .03”. The bridge could probably go down 1/32” at most so the action is what it is, right where I like it.
 
I put a big dent in the back of the neck of my near new Gretsch Duo Jet. I was soooo bummed, because I can't stand dents I will feel with my left thumb. So I tried the soldering-iron-steam-with-damp-cloth trick as illustrated by Dan Erlewine and it worked! It didn't get the dent entirely out but got most of it. So then I filled it with super glue, gently wet-and-dried it and polished it and you'd never know it had ever had a dent.

Very happy about that.
 
Blooze said:
I’ve done that many times in the past with furniture and wood working projects. I’m not sure how well it would do on the roasted maple though. If it really bugs me later on I might try it. Where it’s at you’ll never touch it unless it’s on purpose.
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I tend to leave dings alone in places that don't hamper my playing also, they remind me not to do the stupid stuff that causes them
 
I heard a frantic knock at my front door so left my PRS Cu24 sitting in a chair... as I was running over a baby gate my leg knocked over a box which created a domino effect and knocked the guitar into the floor leaving a nasty ding on the edge...

Some guitars look great aged/relic'd, but PRS is just not one of them.

The emergency? My neighbor needed some BBQ sauce. 🤦‍♂️


Lesson learned... don't be social with your neighbors.
 
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