johnhall wrote:k43rover wrote:. . . the incorrectly shaped factory fitted guards were a much bigger "insult" to a guitar of this quality . . .
Might well have been stated as an opinion so as not to be insulting to those that think otherwise, so as not to discourage future offering of this type.
Fortunately, our distributors are asking for more of these in EXACTLY the same configuration which suggests something was done correctly in someone else's opinion.
Many thanks for taking the time to comment on this John.
I obviously cannot speak for the UK distributor, or UK dealers for that matter, but I will speak for myself as a paying customer for one of these guitars.
As I've stated clearly in various prior posts about this guitar I am overall not just happy with it, but rather delighted with it. That is in no small part because I am a particular fan of the original 1960's Rose Morris guitars, so any guitar which comes as close as this one does to the overall specification of those guitars is just perfect with me. The icing on the cake is that it is a UK market Limited Edition.
That does not however mean that I don't have an opinion about aspects of the guitar that I personally find questionable. The only one of those of any consequence to me is the shape/size of the pickguards (not the colour) which were used on the guitar. As soon as I saw the picture Ben posted of the guitar in this specification (i.e. a week or so before they were shipped) I questioned openly on this forum whether the final guitars would actually leave the factory with pickguards that size/shape as they looked clearly incorrect to me for a full sized 21 fret guitar (i.e. incorrect based on the normal "lip" position on a 330/360 upper guard between the 2 pick-ups and also overall smaller than the guards I have seen). They still look wrong to me and I am doing something about it now I have the guitar. This is no way affects my overall appreciation of the guitar which remains exceedingly high. At the end of the day, its obviously down to you and Ben to decide when you are happy with the final specification of a guitar before it leaves the factory, but I do seem to recall in one of Ben's responses on the pickguards that he made some sort of comment to the effect that these guards were the only ones readily available to hand in the factory that would fit at all (the inference being that there would have been a delay in shipment to order up bespoke gold guards to fit this 21 fret guitar)...maybe I'm reading too much into his comment, but his observation at the time surprised me.
As to the use of the word insult, you may have noted that I used that word only in quotation marks and completely in the context of my response to a forum member who somehow implied that I had "insulted" my guitar by changing pickguards on it. As I pointed out to him, I don't see how a guitar as an inanimate object can feel insulted about anything. I suspect what he really meant was that I had somehow insulted his sensibilities (I'll forgive him on the sematics of the English language as I think he is Dutch...
). Certainly as the owner of the guitar concerned, I can confirm I have not insulted myself at all by changing the pickguards...in fact I feel much better for it. I will let other independent minded souls here on the forum make up their own minds about how insulted they are....
