It took a year and a half for the guy to mess it all up.
Where to start.....
He routed the pickup cavities too big, so the rings could not even mount. Then he could not line up the neck mount screw holes and drilled & plugged the vintage neck several times and put no angle on it so there was no bridge adjustment room. He misaligned the control holes. Mounted the bridge studs wrong to scale.
Then he painted it the wrong color, which I could have lived with if the other atrocities were not committed.
He came recommended from a local guitar store and a guitarist I know. He only did set ups for them, but told them he builds guitars. Turns out he did not have a clue.
I was just going to sell everything and wash my hands of it, but Uwe & Dave talked me into letting it rest for while and thats when an old Pitter Templer hooked me up with a great bass guy here in Chicago that finished the whole job in two months (including him sending it to another guy to paint). The Pit was such a great far reaching community back then.
I met Tom during the Gibson Pit Cd and I offered it to him. He had some spare parts, got a Mighty Mite P neck, put on a Bad ass bridge, covered the pickup hole with a large plate and used a pair of LP pups.
