05 January 2008
Crick in your neck?
)Published on January 5th, 2008 @ 06:57:29 pm, using 250 words, 124 views
This Yamaha Guitar, valued around the 200$ mark. An excellent guitar. Great service from the folks it came from too. The neck however. Previous to spending only a mere week in the end users possession, it had spent several months under 100+ lbs of pressure in a box in a warehouse. Generally speaking, this is completely normal for a guitar of any age and any wage. However, sometimes, we get the ones that are just not meant to be.
I was asked to survey this unit before we attempted to return it to the music store. On the surface, it looked like a mere crack. It could be some weird contemporary design, or perhaps a fault in the laminate. However, having seen it before it left the store, I knew better.
No telling how this happened exactly. When I volunteered inspection on this unit, there were absolutely no signs of abuse. It was in perfect shape, aside from the obvious.
Somehow managing to sever it’s own head, I wonder if it is still in tune. The best I can figure is that it was due to some minor imperfections in the wood, it just could not handle the stress.
Amazing how the break was so clean. Almost as if it was just aching to snap off. We are not all good under pressure.
But in the end, because there were absolutely no signs of abuse, this product was replaced. Happy endings are not just for fairy tales, but for musicians as well 
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