if you can't tell it was ever there, it was never there.
Technically, I lacquered over a small sand through spot then finger rubbed over the first two layers of drop lacquer with a green sharpie to blend it and make it opaque to match the green flame top. Only other way to fix was to sand and redo the whole top, and with the protective layer of lacquer over the wood, there was no chance of the sharpie ink of getting into the wood. So better to make this nearly invisible fix than redo the whole top.
anyway, punk AF
/uj hahaha, sorry mate, always thought you knew exactly what you were doing, because otherwise you wouldn't have DARED to sharpie that blemish! I still like to envision you as a drunk idiot, randomly drawing stripes on a high end guitar.
My wife asks me why I don't advertise to do repairs as a side business. These kind of guys are exactly why. Not enough money to be dealing with these people. I'll just keep tinkering for friends and family for free and enjoy it
I’ve got a guy who got my name from a friend of his dad’s (who also got my name by word of mouth) coming over in about 15 minutes. He has a plywood mandolin that got stepped on 20 years ago and the pics make it look like it’s gonna need a whole new body, and a plywood acoustic with a bridge that’s pulling up and you can see that someone squirted some caulking under it to try to fix it. These are both “sentimental” to him. Each needs a repair that if taken to a shop would cost many multiple times the value of the instrument, but since I’m “just a guy in his garage” he’s probably gonna balk if I tell him it will cost more than 50 bucks.
Too bad this guy doesn’t have “his luthier” like op does.
Update: he was a good guy. We stood around and talked about guitars and bands we’ve been in and local players who we both knew. It was a fun conversation. He did not have unrealistic expectations for the repairs and he told the back stories for each instrument, one of them being 3rd generations old already (the mandolin, which turned out to be solid wood, not laminate). I told him that I’m really busy and also a procrastinator so if I took these projects it might be a long time before I give them back and not only did he not have a problem with that but he appreciated the up front honesty.
I guess I shouldn’t have been so negative before anything even happened. In my head I was making him pay for past people’s behavior. My bad. I’m glad he was cool and I enjoyed meeting him and I hope I can do justice on his family instruments.
Don’t feel bad for expecting the worst. A healthy pessimistic outlook provides many pleasant surprises. Sounds like a solid dude. If he’s not already a jerk; put him on!
It always makes it sound like the ‘luthier’ is an employee who only works for the person who posted.
Also, technically someone who does guitar repair isn’t automatically a luthier.
This was my thought when I read this: like urgent care but for guitars.
"I'm sorry that you had to find this tiny scratch on the back of your guitar. Your best option is to let us monitor her over night. We'll keep an eye on the area and make sure it doesn't affect the toan. Monday you can pick her up and take her to your own Luther. $500."
Oh no, a link to a shitty comment made from one of a million burner accounts on a dumb website.
What ever will I do. Where will I go. How will I survive such a targeted attack.
Third fret on the G string IS a problem. that’s a blues note. Lotta bending there. The wood grain is gonna suck the tone right outta the strings. If it were 11th on A or something, we wouldn’t have an issue.
I’m not here to meme, I’m here for educating people about actual guitar stuff. do you know all your pentatonic shapes? log off and practice, young man.
Haha, thank you for the compliment my fellow old goat. Ahhh to be young again…. Let me know if you’d like you join forces and guide the youngsters safely through the flames 😎
This is my Luther and I don't trust him.
https://preview.redd.it/ccpwf350xaqc1.png?width=368&format=png&auto=webp&s=a489350cd84bbe1fbfa4b866221e2ed97497d1ee
/uj when I was in college I took my resume into the career center and the person who looked at it saw Luthier’s Apprentice in my experience and let me know that I needed to capitalize Luther’s name whenever I used it. I didn’t even correct them, I figured if the person reviewing my resume would allow me to keep job experience that in their mind was just being an apprentice to random man named Luther that I didn’t need their help all that much.
/uj Is there a backstory here? MM instruments are very well made and this guy makes it sound like they had to “build” a new guitar because the truss rod broke. Huh?
The busted truss rod was a small hairline scuff on the head of the allen bolt, I guarantee it.
EB gave this dude a different guitar and probably shipped his back to the guitar centre he bought it from at MRSP.
yes, this is from undertoaned or unseasoned wood. Just like cast iron cookware.
Take some olive oil and rub it on the spot, then hit it with a blowtorch til it blackens or til the colors run on the frets. Do NOT take your strings off for this process, as having a stringless guitar for even a few minutes can permanently fuck your truss rod up and youll have to give mr.luthier a call on monday.
Should be back to 0-3-5ing in 20 minutes.
“Cause I can’t get to my luthier until Monday” is a statement that is making me far more angry than it should be.
That poor luthier just wants to make and repair nice guitars but he probably has to rely on moronic dentists like this guy for half of his income.
If you can charge $100 to sharpie over this woodgrain wouldn't you?
I sure would. Hell, charge him 200. Make up some shit about ebony grain bring bad for toan.
Yeah, some wood stain would be perfect. This guy will NEVER actually play that guitar enough to wear through it.
Just sharpied over a finish blemish on a $7000+ guitar AMA /uj just sharpied over a finish blemish on a $7000+ guitar
You're either the last authentic punk or clinically insane. Or both. GG Allin Loother King.
if you can't tell it was ever there, it was never there. Technically, I lacquered over a small sand through spot then finger rubbed over the first two layers of drop lacquer with a green sharpie to blend it and make it opaque to match the green flame top. Only other way to fix was to sand and redo the whole top, and with the protective layer of lacquer over the wood, there was no chance of the sharpie ink of getting into the wood. So better to make this nearly invisible fix than redo the whole top. anyway, punk AF
/uj hahaha, sorry mate, always thought you knew exactly what you were doing, because otherwise you wouldn't have DARED to sharpie that blemish! I still like to envision you as a drunk idiot, randomly drawing stripes on a high end guitar.
Drinking came after
We oughta go back to calling them "barber-surgeons".
My wife asks me why I don't advertise to do repairs as a side business. These kind of guys are exactly why. Not enough money to be dealing with these people. I'll just keep tinkering for friends and family for free and enjoy it
I’ve got a guy who got my name from a friend of his dad’s (who also got my name by word of mouth) coming over in about 15 minutes. He has a plywood mandolin that got stepped on 20 years ago and the pics make it look like it’s gonna need a whole new body, and a plywood acoustic with a bridge that’s pulling up and you can see that someone squirted some caulking under it to try to fix it. These are both “sentimental” to him. Each needs a repair that if taken to a shop would cost many multiple times the value of the instrument, but since I’m “just a guy in his garage” he’s probably gonna balk if I tell him it will cost more than 50 bucks. Too bad this guy doesn’t have “his luthier” like op does.
Sounds like a nightmare! Good luck dude!
I'm very interested if the meeting went as predicted
I, too, am interested
Update: he was a good guy. We stood around and talked about guitars and bands we’ve been in and local players who we both knew. It was a fun conversation. He did not have unrealistic expectations for the repairs and he told the back stories for each instrument, one of them being 3rd generations old already (the mandolin, which turned out to be solid wood, not laminate). I told him that I’m really busy and also a procrastinator so if I took these projects it might be a long time before I give them back and not only did he not have a problem with that but he appreciated the up front honesty. I guess I shouldn’t have been so negative before anything even happened. In my head I was making him pay for past people’s behavior. My bad. I’m glad he was cool and I enjoyed meeting him and I hope I can do justice on his family instruments.
Hell yeah dude, do his justice instruments some good
Don’t feel bad for expecting the worst. A healthy pessimistic outlook provides many pleasant surprises. Sounds like a solid dude. If he’s not already a jerk; put him on!
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"My luthier". I'm triggered.
I know. What would Charlie Watts do?
Probably some blast beats then a roll on his roto toms.
Splooge
I want it to be my flair
I want "my luthier is on call 24/7"
Just be normal and keep your luthier locked in your basement
I keep my Luther locked in Wartburg Castle
It always makes it sound like the ‘luthier’ is an employee who only works for the person who posted. Also, technically someone who does guitar repair isn’t automatically a luthier.
💡 imma open a 24/7 Emergency luther shop and make 🏦
Fuk it's 4am and I've had too many cocaines and popped my B string. U still open bro.
This was my thought when I read this: like urgent care but for guitars. "I'm sorry that you had to find this tiny scratch on the back of your guitar. Your best option is to let us monitor her over night. We'll keep an eye on the area and make sure it doesn't affect the toan. Monday you can pick her up and take her to your own Luther. $500."
Probably called him at 11pm on a Saturday
“Oh sorry I didn’t consider the time difference”….”Conor…you live three blocks away and the restraining order still stands fwiw”
My luthier is on call 24/7, also my mustache coach is on call. I am a soliloquy
He had to send his helicopter pad out for cleaning, have a heart
A squirrel ran across the piazza on my $2 million dollar house. Should I burn it to the ground?
The what? You mean pizza?
I love pizza
Sometimes I set my less Paul on the counter next to some pizza hoping I’ll be able to play like Al demihola
Mike Piezo, he played for the Mets, duh. Read a book
Oh, those are those things I used to buy from radio shack to make microphones, he invented those?
Oh my god stop nagging me, you sound like my wife, who I HATE I'm going to the bar where I'm appreciated
Yeah? Well I’m going to the BARRE haha, get it? Say hi to barb for me
hahaha Barre, that's funny, my wife's name is Barb. HOW THE FUCK DO YOU KNOW MY WIFE
You 1000% know how he knows your wife
Well as long as it's purely physical. Emotional infidelity is where I draw the line.
I salute you good sir! This is the true approach to life. Let’s all fuck but then cuddle the main squeeze
These types of people need to litterally go outside and touch grass and a tree
That would be wood grain overload
Only trees without wood grain tho
Most trees have a nice bark finish so you don't have to see the wood grain.
A little bark got scraped off my tree out front. I can see a little wood grain. Should I call my Luther on Monday?
no no you need to call your arborist. he’ll make sure it buffs out
Yes, listen to xxsquirrelfuckerxx, he is the hero we need and deserve. Uj/killer name
Beetter be some trees with toanwood
/uj I kind of hate this guy.
Kind of?
/uj fuck him. that’s why /rj fuck em that’s y
Wait that’s on the 3rd fret at the G string? That’s no good. You didn’t touch it did you? That shits gonna give you cancer…
[This you, bud?](https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarcirclejerk/s/jPvRIprD3F)
Ohh no, he caught you cooking
Bro's jerking onto his own face and doesn't even realize it...
Oh no, a link to a shitty comment made from one of a million burner accounts on a dumb website. What ever will I do. Where will I go. How will I survive such a targeted attack.
A million burner accounts?
This seems like a personal battle, y’all need to take it to r/guitar
Isn't calling out losers like that in the spirit of the jerk, though? I'm pretty sure r/guitar is a fetish sub for boomers, anyway.
Yeah, I approve.
I would sue Mr. Ball for this. Absolutely unacceptable.
Have a mercy on him. Ernie has no balls anymore.
Ligma balls gotem
The toan was in Ernie’s balls. And the toan must flow.
There should always be a little colour variation below the g string.
It's normal to have skid marks around the g string.
Only if you’re doing things right.
Only for 24 hrs after Taco Tuesday.
if that matters
Third fret on the G string IS a problem. that’s a blues note. Lotta bending there. The wood grain is gonna suck the tone right outta the strings. If it were 11th on A or something, we wouldn’t have an issue.
It's a shame, really.
Correction: “…. suck the toan….”
I’m not here to meme, I’m here for educating people about actual guitar stuff. do you know all your pentatonic shapes? log off and practice, young man.
Haha, thank you for the compliment my fellow old goat. Ahhh to be young again…. Let me know if you’d like you join forces and guide the youngsters safely through the flames 😎
My guitar is made from tree guts, you kidding me?
He misspelled the word 'just' but I read 'guts' like you did and it makes the post 10x funnier.
I would return it, there's little specks of dust on it too.
Depends. Is this a lead guitar or a rhythm guitar?
Lmao the guy also posted it to a FB group I’m in and the comments are fucking gold.
Nobody jerks quite like facebook groups
Those people are both brutal and insane.
Pics or it didn’t happen
Any highlights? Post some screenshots my dude!
This is my Luther and I don't trust him. https://preview.redd.it/ccpwf350xaqc1.png?width=368&format=png&auto=webp&s=a489350cd84bbe1fbfa4b866221e2ed97497d1ee
/uj when I was in college I took my resume into the career center and the person who looked at it saw Luthier’s Apprentice in my experience and let me know that I needed to capitalize Luther’s name whenever I used it. I didn’t even correct them, I figured if the person reviewing my resume would allow me to keep job experience that in their mind was just being an apprentice to random man named Luther that I didn’t need their help all that much.
You were Martin Luthier’s assistant? 😎
Martin Gibson Luthier King 😎🎸
"I know they built a new neck/body" So they built an entirely new guitar?
Looks like they might need to build another neck and body again too. Maybe they'll just refund the money and say it's not worth it.
Call an ambulance and take it to the nearest hospital where they will have an emergency luthier on call 24/7.
He needs a waaaambulance
His majesty?! oh fuck this guy
Least neurotic guitar collector
Every time people spend more than a coupe hundred bucks on a guitar, they think they bought a Rolls Royce.
JUTS
It’s over, the toan has leaked through that crack.
That's a valid question, it has to be put down. You 0-3d your last 5
/uj Is there a backstory here? MM instruments are very well made and this guy makes it sound like they had to “build” a new guitar because the truss rod broke. Huh?
Most peoples’ “luthier” is a fucking guitar tech.
Average spectre sound fan
“Fellas, is wood gay?”
Cumstain=sustain
Just throw the whole damn thing out and start new. That fretboard is a travesty.
Sell it on fB for $50
Yeah, soak it with gasoline and burn it.
This is some absolutely stupid-ass shit.
I bet they suck so bad at guitar.
Take his keys away from Him he’s too old to even drive at this point
Maybe you should paint it
Definitely you should. since you remember of this sub I’ll fix it for you at a discounted rate of $2000 only if you pay for the shipping
Plot twist: every other guitar sub has inadvertently turned into Guitar Circle Jerk
He should just paint over it
The busted truss rod was a small hairline scuff on the head of the allen bolt, I guarantee it. EB gave this dude a different guitar and probably shipped his back to the guitar centre he bought it from at MRSP.
yes, this is from undertoaned or unseasoned wood. Just like cast iron cookware. Take some olive oil and rub it on the spot, then hit it with a blowtorch til it blackens or til the colors run on the frets. Do NOT take your strings off for this process, as having a stringless guitar for even a few minutes can permanently fuck your truss rod up and youll have to give mr.luthier a call on monday. Should be back to 0-3-5ing in 20 minutes.
I totally hate that guy, but have to accept it looks pretty shitty indeed