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For 10 years now I've been waiting for a EGF-1800 to come for a lower price than 3500 euros. Sitting here on sunday searching with google for EGF-1200 the following offer came up :
https://www.vintage-guitar.de/detailsitem_3447.html
I did not believe my eyes and gave this shop a call on monday morning asking for detailed pics because the pics in the lower section with the pickups out and were not there yet. I also asked for the crack and they told me they will have a look on it and make some pics. Later in the afternoon I called again and they told me they can not be 100% sure but they belive it is only a laquer crack and nothing that goes deeper into the wood. Pics have been uploaded in the evening and it was clearly visible that there is no veneer. The lines left from the neck pickup are going through the maple cap and the pickups came with the Z as well. I was sure I will buy this guitar but zooming into the newer pics from the crack made me feel not so happy. So I called a luthier well known for repair and restoring vintage guitars and asked him to check the pics from the crack. 5 minutes later my dream was gone as he told me this looks bad enough for a broken headstock even if it was hard to tell without having the guitar but the pictures only. So I gave the shop a last call to say I have to quit. Called another luthier who already built me a guitar and he sad immediately that a blind man could see the broken headstock here and not only a laquer crack. Looks like I still have to enjoy my two 1200
for a while but maybe someone here is brave enough to go for the 1800. The first luthier I called told me to make a perfect invisible repair would cost around 800 euros. After this one has paid 3200 and has still a guitar that had a break in the neck. So maybe it is easier to buy a good one for 3500...
https://www.vintage-guitar.de/detailsitem_3447.html
I did not believe my eyes and gave this shop a call on monday morning asking for detailed pics because the pics in the lower section with the pickups out and were not there yet. I also asked for the crack and they told me they will have a look on it and make some pics. Later in the afternoon I called again and they told me they can not be 100% sure but they belive it is only a laquer crack and nothing that goes deeper into the wood. Pics have been uploaded in the evening and it was clearly visible that there is no veneer. The lines left from the neck pickup are going through the maple cap and the pickups came with the Z as well. I was sure I will buy this guitar but zooming into the newer pics from the crack made me feel not so happy. So I called a luthier well known for repair and restoring vintage guitars and asked him to check the pics from the crack. 5 minutes later my dream was gone as he told me this looks bad enough for a broken headstock even if it was hard to tell without having the guitar but the pictures only. So I gave the shop a last call to say I have to quit. Called another luthier who already built me a guitar and he sad immediately that a blind man could see the broken headstock here and not only a laquer crack. Looks like I still have to enjoy my two 1200
for a while but maybe someone here is brave enough to go for the 1800. The first luthier I called told me to make a perfect invisible repair would cost around 800 euros. After this one has paid 3200 and has still a guitar that had a break in the neck. So maybe it is easier to buy a good one for 3500...