good luthier in western mass?

I just had some work done on my ELrick at ampworks up in belchertown (I think). THe luthier their (dont recall his name) works in afew shops in western MA. Very happy with his work. If you want I can give you their number, i have his card around here somewhere.

 

I'm also interested in this, since I'm in western mass. Would love to get my jbass / ibby acoustic / sx tele i just ordered all fret leveled and such.

LOL!!! i thought that band sounded familiar. Fagan, is that you? Guess who this is, haha.

 

My turnaround was a little over a week and a half, but I didn't have the scratch to pay him so it sat there for over a month. I have not dealt with the amp guy/owner for any work but he seemed like a nice guy all in all. HTe luthier bounces around from there to a shop on northampton.

Sarnz, I had my Elrick there for a full fret dressing and had a couple of them levelled for 75 bucks. I was very pleased with the work.

There is a guy aroundhere, theGrizz I think is his SN, who lives up near northampton and who knows a bucnh about the local shop scene. I have only lived here a year and a half so my advice is from limited experience.

 

IF you don't prefer that shop I'd give them a call and get the luthier's name (Dave something? I dunno) and find out which other shop he works in.

I also do not recommend the small music shop in Westfield. I won't mention names but they were kind of slow and hard to reach and my bass wasn't exactly fixed when I got it back.

 

Yeah it seems like the SX gets a lot of praise from the forums so for $120 shipped I figured Id try it out. I think I got the last one in the color that I wanted (and with the old headstock) I'm going to custom the hell out of it too since I like doing stuff like that to my guitars. Keeps me from selling them lol. It's cool that your new band is actually getting somewhere

 

do any of those crappy hardcore bands need a bassist

 

im from the dalton originally, i knew a guy at wood bros. in pittsfield that did great bass work, his names chip. not sure if there still around anymore. same with BD music in pittsfield.

 

pittsfield's a bit of a hual from Springfield, although come to think of it so is belchertown.

 

yeah i'm the one still sitting in my room hoping someone will be like 'hey you're good'. so far, NOTHING. i've come to terms that my music is not going to be liked by other people, but since i like listening to it, i am trying to record to the best of my capabilities.

 

I thought good hardcore ended long ago. Then again I listened to hardcore when Earth Crisis was on Victory. I am out of the local loop in this area anyway. Its difficult to balance work, family and a band. I'm slowly becoming an old guy looking to "jam"