Non professional, unhinged and terrible experience, my instrument was damaged at the end of the service. If you value your instruments please do not take them here. I should have know he was terrible, when he asked me to inspect the guitar outside in his porch, I gave him the benefit of the doubt as these old timers sometimes are good techs.
Conversation is attached as well as the pics from before and after. I have also to provide context as he said in person he could get me to 98% there, and I was dumb enough to believe him. he said it would be done in a week. and gave me a hand written paper with the serial of the guitar mistakenly on it. The next WEEKS, were a combination of I need more days, I am sick, the dog ate the guitar and so on. After asking for several updates, he said the shape was 100% and color 80%? Please see the pictures, he is either a scammer or color blind. Also he did not mentioned that he messed up the binding and over grinded the guitar right next to the area.
When I picked up the guitar he was unapologetic, he said he would not charge me but I needed to go elsewhere for a repair. I did tip him 45 bucks and left before I started seeing red. I asked him to pay for the repair at another tech and he agreed, when I asked him for approval from a quote from another tech for 25 more dollars than he was charging me, he said he would pay and called me an extortionist. blocked straight away, run do not even think about bringing your instruments here if you care about them. read more