A Story Of Bad Karma by: COBW3BB

**COBW3BB** · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:14 pm Post subject: A Story Of Bad Karma by: COBW3BB

Today is September 6th and I have a story to tell.

. I own a Fender Stratocaster (2005 Mexican Jimi Hendrix Model) electric guitar. It has what people in the music business call dead frets or 'fret buzz' on the 19th and 20th frets. Well, I took it to my local music shop where I take lessons thinking a neck adjustment and some tweaking to the instrument should help get it working 100% again. I was wrong. So, I wait about 3 months before I decide to have another go at it and I take the guitar to Lancaster, about 25 miles from here. They say a neck adjustment should work and whoever worked on it before didn;t set it up right. Well I leave it there for a week. Today I went to pick it up and thought after spending ruffly 75$ on strings and getting it set up (i had it setup 2 times before this) it would be fixed. I plugged the guitar into the nearest Fender amp and bent the 19th and 20th frets, guess what? The same thing was going on. The guy checked it out again and said that the 20th and 21st frets were higher than the rest and that's why I was getting fret buzz. So, the manufacturers were resposible. Well, I bought the guitar last year at Guitar Center, brand new. The guy told me I could run the guitar to Guitar Center and they should fix it for free because of the lifetime warranty. But, Guitar Center is on Morse Road, and about the same driving distance as this place. So I decided to let these guys at Signature Fender Music Co. give it another go and I'm going back tomorrow to pick it up. The cost for fixing the frets is 15$. That brings me to 80$ for this mess. Ok, so I get home tonight, pick up my old 1975 epiphone custom (it was made in '75) and start playing All Along The Watch Tower, and I do a 2 step bend in the second solo. The 1st string (to you non-musicians, it's the thinnest string on the guitar) breaks. LOL. Sorry for the long read, I just thought I could share one of my bad karma stories. Feel free to tell some of your own. BTW, this is all true and none of it is exaggerrated in any way shape or form.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hWlecEKppTM
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**schzoidbaka** · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:43 am Post subject:

The sucks, but hey, it's all for your beloved guitar right? 80 bucks is better than getting a whole new guitar completely.

I'd go the extra mile just for mine, it's my love.

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