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OK, some damn band dropped off 2 steinberger guitars and 1 steinberger bass for me to set-up today for their tour starting Saturday. I have no idea what band it is, but they have stupid metal shit bolted onto their guitars to make them look like weapons. I should have been suspicious when I was refered to them after two other repair guys already turned down the job.
Anyways, before working with these I thought Steinbergers were plain ugly and illegal for a real musician to own on that grounds alone. Now I am completely convinced these are the stupidest guitars ever made. Where do I start? The lame ass expensive double ball strings you have to buy? The tuning knobs that are very coarse, hard to grip, and WAYYY too close together(they also stick, so when they finally DO move it's a whole lot more than you intended)? The fact that you set the intonation WITH YOUR FUCKING FINGERS, so if you bump one saddle on accident, or they move together, you have to re-intonate both strings? The terrible workmanship(on one of the guitars the zero fret was so damn high that I couldn't possibly get the action lower than 5/64" at the 12th fret without SERIOUS buzz all the way up the neck)?
Or should I just bitch about the stupid fugly cosmetics these guys bolted on their shitty guitars? The stupid mace on the bass headstock? The saw-blade shaped guitar which is IMPOSSIBLE to hold sitting without it digging into both your groin AND underarm? The cosmetics that block the tuning knobs?
Fuck you Ned, if it ain't broke, why you gotta overthink the guitar and make it worse? What if I reinvetned the framing hammer, this time with 15 small moving parts? Eat a fat dick. I hope Gibson buries this name DEEP DEEP underground, 500 feet under the soil in Nashville.
My new set-up rate for Steiberger guitars: $250 plus medical bills incured by stress/shit jabbing me in the dick and 'pits.
Anyways, before working with these I thought Steinbergers were plain ugly and illegal for a real musician to own on that grounds alone. Now I am completely convinced these are the stupidest guitars ever made. Where do I start? The lame ass expensive double ball strings you have to buy? The tuning knobs that are very coarse, hard to grip, and WAYYY too close together(they also stick, so when they finally DO move it's a whole lot more than you intended)? The fact that you set the intonation WITH YOUR FUCKING FINGERS, so if you bump one saddle on accident, or they move together, you have to re-intonate both strings? The terrible workmanship(on one of the guitars the zero fret was so damn high that I couldn't possibly get the action lower than 5/64" at the 12th fret without SERIOUS buzz all the way up the neck)?
Or should I just bitch about the stupid fugly cosmetics these guys bolted on their shitty guitars? The stupid mace on the bass headstock? The saw-blade shaped guitar which is IMPOSSIBLE to hold sitting without it digging into both your groin AND underarm? The cosmetics that block the tuning knobs?
Fuck you Ned, if it ain't broke, why you gotta overthink the guitar and make it worse? What if I reinvetned the framing hammer, this time with 15 small moving parts? Eat a fat dick. I hope Gibson buries this name DEEP DEEP underground, 500 feet under the soil in Nashville.
My new set-up rate for Steiberger guitars: $250 plus medical bills incured by stress/shit jabbing me in the dick and 'pits.
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