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Post by Charlie Hall on Jul 3, 2009 18:29:27 GMT
Hi Robert,
To hazard a guess, they are still in business, so I would say many.
Regards,
Charlie
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Post by tedw on Jul 14, 2009 8:04:28 GMT
Hi Charlie,
A couple of years back I tried to order a tele from My K with all top hardware, swamp ash body etc. to my own specs. We agreed a straight swap against an old 70's strat that I had at the time. Many delays, many excuses, and product never delivered. Extreme frustration, but having read this litany of bad news I feel rather elated as I did manage to recover my old strat after a few veiled threats of legal action. Ted
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Post by olemuso on Jul 14, 2009 11:04:58 GMT
I think you`ve been very lucky Ted  |
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Post by Charlie Hall on Jul 14, 2009 12:56:22 GMT
I have given the body away on the condition that I will not be given it back!
Regards,
Charlie
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Post by ha2he on Jul 14, 2009 14:51:19 GMT
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Post by tedw on Jul 14, 2009 16:23:56 GMT
This is all very sad. Small guitar luthiers have it hard enough already competing with the big names. A joker in the pack really doesn't help their cause. Incidentally, going to the other extreme of customer service John Smith at Gordon Smith is a fine advert and a great guitar maker. Many GS's have passed my way and I have never played a bad one.. Definitely an opption v the Gibbo. The Graf was the nearest I had to a GS Fender type and that was quite some guitar, but I intensely disliked the aesthetics of the tremolo arm.
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Post by martyn on Jul 15, 2009 9:28:01 GMT
This is typical of so many situations whereby the law seems to protect these charlatans and nobody seems able or willing to do anything about it. It's one reason I won't watch those TV programmes 'exposing' rubbish builders, plumbers etc with hidden cameras because it always ends with the culprit driving away unabashed (as opposed to 'bashed', which is what they deserve) and with no satisfactory conclusion showing legal action ever being taken.
Even if these scoundrels are exposed and cease trading, they pop up later under a different name and so the whole process starts again. The law or the process of serving it needs a serious upgrade.
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Post by olemuso on Jul 15, 2009 17:58:32 GMT
The TV "expose" often gets it wrong tho. I`ve personally challenged the BBC on two occasions, offering to prove them wrong and go, with their film crew, to the job they specified and then to one of my own... no reply. This despite me phoning and writing to the local station as well as BBC HQ.  [off me soap-box now] However, these cowboys could do with a bit of "exposure". What about Penman & Somerfield in the Daily Mirror, they seem pretty good. |
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