This past wednesday night I had two of my three guitars professionally setup. My primary electric is an Ibanez RG1570 that is a few months old. When I bought it I brought it home but after a couple of weeks it didn't feel quite right so I brought it back and told them. The guy (the owners son who is a real ass) said that it played fine but he would give it a look. After looking at it he aid the truss rod needed a minor adjustment and that was it. I told him I thought the action was high and that there was a string buzz, he disagreed and said there was nothing wrong. Ever since then I still thought the guitar could play and sound better so this past wednesday I brought it to the guitar shop I take lessons from and had their guitar tech look at it and a no named acoustic I've had forever but it was so far out I just could not play it.
After I went back to pick up the guitar the tech told me he had to do the following to it:
Adjust the neck, Adjust the bridge, Adjust the spings, Adjust the pickups, Tighten the tuners, Lower the action, Resting
The guitar plays and sounds absloutly great now that he's worked on it. The same with the acoustic(It was way out). For a total of $107.29 I had two guitars professionally setup and restringed. Took the guy the better part of three hours to do both, that included cleaning and polishing the fingerboard on both and filing the frets on the acoustic and then cleaning and polishing both guitars.
Given the fact that I bought the guitar with more than likely these problems on it, should I go back to the guitar shop where I bought it and ask for the money I had to spend on the setup because they pretty much blew me off when I asked to have the problems fixed or should I just let sleeping dogs lie and never spend any money in that shop again and just bad mouth them to anyone who asks? I really don't need the money but it ticks me off to know that I was just blown off like I was. I'm sure my newness to guitar setups and playability had a lot to do with that. At least I know the difference now!
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