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As a guitar player, you get so much used to how the instrument feels in your hand while you play it that even something that should make it better ends up making it feeling worse.

That said, if the husband really loved that guitar the way it was, he could have brought it back to the luthier, have them undo their job. Stop playing it altogether was his decision and acting like that seems like a “punishment” for their spouse. That would be childish and borderline toxic behavior.

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lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Maybe he’s not doing it as a punishment. Maybe the spark is just gone now that it’s not “his” anymore.

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- pH3ra@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  As I already said, a guitar tech can bring it back to its original state for free or a small fee in a matter of minutes. If you refuse to play it instead then its on you.
  
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  - lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    It can’t go back to a state of not having been fucked with by someone else. That’s literally impossible.
    
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    pH3ra@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    To give you an analogy, it would be like giving up your car because some guy changed the lightbulbs in your headlights. That is literally reversible.
    
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Soulcreator@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
As a fellow guitar player I’m not certain why this is being down voted so hard? Guitars are made to be modified, so anything that was done can be undone.

The interesting thing is that the wife said she only spent $200 bucks to get the guitar repair. Your mileage may vary, but in my neck of the woods $200 doesn’t get you too much in the way of a repair. They would probably offer to give your guitar a ‘setup’ and a new pack of strings, near me that would cost around $100, maybe a little more. So whatever else they fixed couldn’t have been too invasive, possibly new tuning pegs or resolved any wiring issues?

Everything there can be undone, a setup is the hardest as it would change the feel of the guitar. For the most part the ‘feel’, really only comes down to string height or ‘action’. That’s a quick fix for a guitar tech if brought back to the shop, hell a motivated amateur could probably probably figure out how to make that adjustment with a screwdriver and a Google search.

All that said I totally understand how the ‘magic’ of a guitar can easily be lost in the hands of a well intentioned but misguided guitar tech.

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- Bo7a@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Repeating myself from a previous comment:
  
  And if the road-earned patina is now shine? and the scratches are now filled with wood glue under a glued on pick guard? and the peg that came off that old banjo they found in the middle of a gig 20 years ago has been replaced with a brand new set. And the notch on the edging where steve’s girlfriend slammed a nazi in the face at the same party where sabrina fucked that idiot from the ska band and got pregnant?
  
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  - Soulcreator@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Let me start by saying I get it, sometimes the ‘magic’ of a guitar gets ruined by a well intentioned guitar tech.
    
    That said what you are describing is a complete re-finishing job, and possibly a gutting the guitar down to a husk and replacing all the parts. The paint will easily cost upwards of 1-2k, and swapping out everything with decent parts could cost $500 - $1,000.
    
    The ‘wife’ in the green text said she spent $200, for that price you aren’t getting much, fresh strings, a setup, and possibly a spot level and crown for any high frets. A few minor tweaks, that in theory could be undone.
    
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    Bo7a@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Totally fair.
    
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- pH3ra@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yeah probably the wife went to the guitar tech and asked “can you please make this better” and they gave it the classic fret leveling and crowning for a lower action and probably not much more for 200$. But the downvote mob already picked its side in this story so I’m not even gonna bother correcting them.
  
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  - Soulcreator@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Exactly, for that price you’re not really getting much aside from a few playability tweaks.
    
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    pH3ra@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Well thanks for being the litmus paper in this argument, if you don’t already know there is a nice com in c/guitars, come hang out!
    
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