Sorry for waiting so long to post here.
Earlier this year I got fed up with it and canceled my order. It had reached over a year since my order was placed and deposit paid.
I got screwed around so much with all the promises in emails, deadlines and delays after deadlines and delays. After a while he stopped responding to me by email entirely and if I wanted to get through I had to phone. Soon after that I found my calls were being hung up on (as in, not ringing long enough to be going to voicemail automatically) and the only way I could get through to him was by turning off caller ID and trying repeatedly.
I strongly believe that even a whole year down the line, he hadn't even ordered parts, let alone begun work on my guitar, despite lying to me about progress and even claiming it was FINISHED at one point, just waiting to be set up and shipped out. (Two weeks after this when I asked for another update, he claimed the neck had warped and he had to make another one, which would take another two weeks.)
I believe this because:
-When I called to cancel, he was totally fine returning my deposit. Didn't even put up a fight. This leads me to assume that he hadn't even purchased materials or hardware.
-I sent him a small charm to inlay into the back of the headstock. He had asked me if it was okay to file the edges and the back a little bit, to make it a more perfect circle and slightly thinner so it'd fit better, and I told him that was fine.
When I got it back, it was still the rough-ish shape I had sent it in, and there were debossed markings on the back which would have been flattened if it was filed. There was also no residue of any kind of adhesive or anything.
-- This tells me that it had never been anywhere near to a neck, even though we had supposedly been through two necks "ready to ship" at this point, and when returning my deposit he said he couldn't send the charm out for another week because he'd have to remove it from the neck.
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I'm not even mad about the wait or anything like that. I just got so sick and tired of the constant stream of bullsh** from this guy. Everything he said was lies on top of more lies.
So I bought a Mayones and upgraded Eleven Rack to Axe-FX instead.
Earlier this year I got fed up with it and canceled my order. It had reached over a year since my order was placed and deposit paid.
I got screwed around so much with all the promises in emails, deadlines and delays after deadlines and delays. After a while he stopped responding to me by email entirely and if I wanted to get through I had to phone. Soon after that I found my calls were being hung up on (as in, not ringing long enough to be going to voicemail automatically) and the only way I could get through to him was by turning off caller ID and trying repeatedly.
I strongly believe that even a whole year down the line, he hadn't even ordered parts, let alone begun work on my guitar, despite lying to me about progress and even claiming it was FINISHED at one point, just waiting to be set up and shipped out. (Two weeks after this when I asked for another update, he claimed the neck had warped and he had to make another one, which would take another two weeks.)
I believe this because:
-When I called to cancel, he was totally fine returning my deposit. Didn't even put up a fight. This leads me to assume that he hadn't even purchased materials or hardware.
-I sent him a small charm to inlay into the back of the headstock. He had asked me if it was okay to file the edges and the back a little bit, to make it a more perfect circle and slightly thinner so it'd fit better, and I told him that was fine.
When I got it back, it was still the rough-ish shape I had sent it in, and there were debossed markings on the back which would have been flattened if it was filed. There was also no residue of any kind of adhesive or anything.
-- This tells me that it had never been anywhere near to a neck, even though we had supposedly been through two necks "ready to ship" at this point, and when returning my deposit he said he couldn't send the charm out for another week because he'd have to remove it from the neck.
---
I'm not even mad about the wait or anything like that. I just got so sick and tired of the constant stream of bullsh** from this guy. Everything he said was lies on top of more lies.
So I bought a Mayones and upgraded Eleven Rack to Axe-FX instead.
I won t let my money disappear like that. Some of us would never ever receive our guitar. Things are on the way in my case...
