My previous post mentioned a few things about double neck guitars, mainly in response to a few questions my father had about the practicality. But what could ever make him randomly ask such questions? The average person (or at least, I'm assuming) doesn't have an issue like this come up, meaning...
I GOT ONE!
My father understandably wouldn't want me to go spend a few hundreds of dollars on any random junk like that, so that's where that arguement came from. I'm finally in posession of one of my dreamiest guitars...or at least I was. (sadface)
The Christmas morning started as a normal Sunday, waking up at eight, going to church, and so on. Christmas in our house came a little bit later than usual, being a Sunday and being preoccupied with church activities. Our ever-shedding tree humbly sat in our family room, presents underneath, although absent from the pile of presesnts was anything remotely resembling a guitar case.
Before simply assuming I wouldn't be getting anything besides a book this year, I remembered the tricky ways my parents had of hiding my more expensive presesnts the previous years, cleverly instructing me to go do something involving the location of my present (i.e., go bring the laundry down, with the present in one of the hampers). Because of this, it wasn't much of a surprise when I had to go on a full house-search looking for a five foot long box.
Back to the guitar: coming from a seller that stocked randomly assorted instruments, I couldn't have said I was expecting a totally set up guitar. However, I was expecting a guitar in brand-new condition, as the seller had listed the item. What I found was a guitar with quite a few dings in it. The guitar wasn't set up properly (strings and bridge not set at correct hight, cleaned, pickup height, blah blah...).
As I never find much luck with anything using tools, I took the guitar to a professional at Guitar Center, and the poor guitar tech had to deliver bad news...
One of the necks was bent, and to get it to bend back, rather than simply adjusting the truss bar as normal, it would take a one hundred dollar curing procedure.
For just ONE neck.
And now I'm stuck with a single neck guitar... *sigh*
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