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This post is sure to stir some emotions, and let me start off by saying to everyone who thought I was just a whining Australian who can't appreciate the awesome work that Lee dishes out, FUCK YOU. Yes, FUCK YOU. I am about to have my day.
Now, I know my previous GMW issues raised a bit of controversy but it all died down and everything went back to normal, with GMW being god like with what they do, yadda, yadda, yadda....
So, the background is all in this thread here.
Check out my third post in that thread, about the inlays and fretboard, that is very relevent today.
There is also this thread where the guitar was played at GMW after it eventually went ALL the way back there, here
I have stated before that with the guitar still sucking ass like nobody's business after it came back from Lee, who had Neil Moser work on it (and let's remember, Neil ONLY does fret dresses for new GMW at the MCS, he doesn't install frets, so he dressed them again after Lee "worked" on them for me), that I was going to replace the fingerboard. This plan is on it's way and a new fingerboard from Custom Inlay arrived today at my luthiers, so I rocked on over to check it out. It's a good board and Russ got down to removing the old fretboard right away and let me watch.
First we removed the nut, something I hadn't done myself yet, but I wanted to see how Lee "fixed" the dodgy nut install he did initially, as per the first thread link. There looked to be some material against one side of the nut, and some visible gauging of the rod itself, possible from the bigger screws he planned on using.
Moving on, after some heat, the board began to come off, which was cool enough. Russ eventually got a hold of some binding and got rid of a chunk of it, and I noticed something funny with the fretboard, and suddenly all my fret troubles made total, horrible sense. Check this out.
I had asked for sharkfins on my reverse Jackson neck from Lee, and during our emails it became known to me that he'd put dots on it. He said he would fix this, and I've always known this was the second fretboard on this neck, and wondered if the first one was actually decent. Now I know the first fretboard is still there, and Lee planed off the top and put a crappy veneer on top and installed the frets. It's hard to get a good shot, but you can tell that the new slots in the veneer dont' match up with the original ones.
This neck never stood a chance like this, and now I soooo wish I'd taken pics of all the glue that was seeping out under the frets when I first got it. The glue was there to make something bad work, but it failed.
Let me tell you, when I saw this and all the implications sunk in, I was LIVID!! This is the lowest, scummiest thing to do to a person ordering a brand new custom guitar, no wonder I've not had one decent playing day out of it, when I ordered it in 2002 and first got it in 2004. It's now 2006, god I'm pissed off.
So, what do I do now? Is there a point asking Lee about it. Does someone here want to talk to him for me?
Now, I know my previous GMW issues raised a bit of controversy but it all died down and everything went back to normal, with GMW being god like with what they do, yadda, yadda, yadda....
So, the background is all in this thread here.
Check out my third post in that thread, about the inlays and fretboard, that is very relevent today.
There is also this thread where the guitar was played at GMW after it eventually went ALL the way back there, here
I have stated before that with the guitar still sucking ass like nobody's business after it came back from Lee, who had Neil Moser work on it (and let's remember, Neil ONLY does fret dresses for new GMW at the MCS, he doesn't install frets, so he dressed them again after Lee "worked" on them for me), that I was going to replace the fingerboard. This plan is on it's way and a new fingerboard from Custom Inlay arrived today at my luthiers, so I rocked on over to check it out. It's a good board and Russ got down to removing the old fretboard right away and let me watch.
First we removed the nut, something I hadn't done myself yet, but I wanted to see how Lee "fixed" the dodgy nut install he did initially, as per the first thread link. There looked to be some material against one side of the nut, and some visible gauging of the rod itself, possible from the bigger screws he planned on using.
Moving on, after some heat, the board began to come off, which was cool enough. Russ eventually got a hold of some binding and got rid of a chunk of it, and I noticed something funny with the fretboard, and suddenly all my fret troubles made total, horrible sense. Check this out.
I had asked for sharkfins on my reverse Jackson neck from Lee, and during our emails it became known to me that he'd put dots on it. He said he would fix this, and I've always known this was the second fretboard on this neck, and wondered if the first one was actually decent. Now I know the first fretboard is still there, and Lee planed off the top and put a crappy veneer on top and installed the frets. It's hard to get a good shot, but you can tell that the new slots in the veneer dont' match up with the original ones.
This neck never stood a chance like this, and now I soooo wish I'd taken pics of all the glue that was seeping out under the frets when I first got it. The glue was there to make something bad work, but it failed.
Let me tell you, when I saw this and all the implications sunk in, I was LIVID!! This is the lowest, scummiest thing to do to a person ordering a brand new custom guitar, no wonder I've not had one decent playing day out of it, when I ordered it in 2002 and first got it in 2004. It's now 2006, god I'm pissed off.
So, what do I do now? Is there a point asking Lee about it. Does someone here want to talk to him for me?
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