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Check out what fedex "dropped" off

#22
mikeddd said:
"Entirely repairable." I hope you're joking. That bass IS DONE....firewood, essentially. I really hope you/seller had insurance on the sale; it would be a shame to lose such a fine bass.
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Nope. Too negative. Sure the VALUE is trashed. No question. But the utility as an instrument? No way. I had a neck snap on my resonator guitar. I thought it was firewood. Not so. Carefully getting pieces to exactly match and fit back together. Apply gorilla glue and lots of TIGHT clamps. Dry. Sand. Stain. Finish. Use forever thereafter. Worked for me. And that was my FAVORITE guitar too! Has not failed me since.

Hopefully insurance value will then give you TWO working basses the replacement and the fixed one! I do know that getting insurance money out of UPS is like getting blood from a turnip...don't know about Fedex.
 
#23
bassbenj said:
had a neck snap on my resonator guitar.
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Hmm, my most recent headstock repairs were on a resonator guitars... One was a clean snap like this but with the head held on by the plastic laminate on the face of the head, and the other was worse than this one with the head snapped off in mulitple pieces and busted through the tuner holes.

What is it with those things anyway? ;)
 
#30
mikeddd said:
"Entirely repairable." I hope you're joking. That bass IS DONE....firewood, essentially. I really hope you/seller had insurance on the sale; it would be a shame to lose such a fine bass.
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You've obviously never seen a typical Gibson headstock break. This is nearly a carbon copy of that mishap. Hundreds of those are fixed every week, many without a visible mark afterward.

Insurance should cover the repair - and hopefully the seller will negotiate a reduced price.
 
#31
the more i look at it the more i think they didn't detune the strings because of the way its broken forward..like it was dropped hard and caused some failure in the wood and the strings help yank it forward..i dunno..
 
#37
If they detuned the strings, the truss rod should be somewhat loose. After seeing that EBMM doesn't detune when they ship their instruments, I stopped worrying about it. Never had an issue.
 
#38
If the box isn't damaged I doubt FedEx will pay a claim. They will maintain (maybe rightly so) that the instrument wasn't packed properly. That shouldn't be *your* problem though, and the vendor should make it right.

Sadowsky always uses FedEx and they do not detune strings. I shipped my Rob Allen a few weeks ago, used FedExa and didn't detune.
 
#39
I bought a solid-body bass a few months ago, from another TB'er. Shipped in a padded gig bag, well packed as any instrument I've ever received. He shipped it FedEx, so I didn't worry about shipping in a gig bag. Bass arrived, the tone & volume knobs smashed through the body of the bass. Apparently, something heavy...very heavy...had been piled on top of my bass. (BTW, it shipped in a Dean box also...?!?!?) Body of the bass was trashed. Luckily for me, the TB'er had another, identical bass (hooray!) that he shipped as soon as FedEx picked up the damaged one. The 2nd one shipped in a tired-but-all-there hsc, 2nd bass arrived in perfect condition.

So everything came out ok for me. But another trophy for FedEx' wall of shame.

FWIW, I ve seen a top-flight luthier repair a broken neck/headstock so that you could not tell it was ever broken. He even transferred the logo intact. Pricey, but it can be done...even on a neck'thru, which is what the luthier repaired.
 

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